transport services and the delay of the procedure for the conclusion of the new one between the Department of Immigration and Asylum and the travel agency. Following a report from an accommodation Structure for unaccompanied minors and the intervention of the Greek Ombudsperson, the process was completed and transfers restarted. 505 No delays were reported in 2024. During 2024, according to Eurostat 520 outgoing transfers were implemented under the Dublin procedure. According to MoMA statistics,506 during 2024, from July to December 2024, 222 outgoing transfers were implemented under the Dublin procedure. According to a notification on Ministry’s website “Statistics on Dublin Transfers are not currently available for the period of July 2023 – June 2024 due to the upgrade of the computer system carried out by the Services of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum.” There have been no other data available in relation to the numbers and types of requests for 2024 as of the publication of this report. Outgoing Dublin transfers by month: 2024 Jan - Feb - Mar Apr May - - - Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 47 25 31 22 53 44 222 Source: Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Statistics available at: https://bit.ly/3uyzcLG. 2.3. Personal interview Indicators: Dublin: Personal Interview Same as regular procedure 1. Is a personal interview of the asylum applicant in most cases conducted in practice in the Dublin procedure? Yes No ❖ If so, are interpreters available in practice, for interviews? Yes No 2. Are interviews conducted through video conferencing? Frequently Rarely Never Questions relating to the Dublin procedure (e.g., on the presence of other family members in another Member States) are always addressed to the applicant during the Regular Procedure: Personal Interview examining the asylum claim. According to GCR’s experience, applicants who at this later stage, well after the three-month deadline, express their will to be reunited with a close family member in another EU Member State, have the chance to apply for family reunification. In several cases handled by GCR, the Dublin Unit strives to send the outgoing request as soon as possible, after the written consent and all necessary documents have been submitted. Interviews in non-family reunification cases tend to be more detailed when it is ascertained that an asylum applicant, after being fingerprinted, has already applied for asylum in another EU Member State. 2.4. Appeal Indicators: Dublin: Appeal Same as regular procedure 1. Does the law provide for an appeal against the decision in the Dublin procedure? Yes No ❖ If yes, is it Judicial Administrative ❖ If yes, is it suspensive Yes No 505 506 Greek Ombudsperson, Resumption of transfers of unaccompanied minors in the context of family reunification (“Dublin III”) following the Ombudsman’s intervention, 27 November 2023, available in Greek at: https://tinyurl.com/yb73uyu6. MoMA, Statistics, Consolidated Reports - Overview: December 2024 - International Protection | Appendix A, available at https://bit.ly/3uyzcLG, Table 16. 99