On the island of Kos, and specifically in the area of Lambi, a Transitional Housing Unit for Unaccompanied Minors is operated by Praksis, in which, at the time of our visit and based on data the Second Police Department of Dodecanese provided us, 33 unaccompanied minors were staying. That is also the Unit’s capacity. The majority of those staying in the Unit are Pakistani and Bangladeshi citizens and they wait in the Unit for when they will be transferred to a housing center in the Greek mainland. There are 16 staff members in total in the Organization, among whom are social scientists (social workers, sociologists and social anthropologists), psychologists, a lawyers, translators and caregivers. Praksis receives a verbal order from the Prosecutor so that unaccompanied minors can be hosted with delays within the organization. Applications to be hosted for unaccompanied minors are received by N.C.S.S. Then, position of accompanying these minors to the structure when a space has been opened is assumed by Metadrasi whose representative receives the minor’s documents and delivers them to the manager of the Unit, where the minors are to be hosted. At this time, the prosecutor gives a written order, which refers minors accompaniment and the minor’s stay at the Unit. It is noted here that the police of course have information on the minors who are staying in the Praksis Unit in Kos but also on those who depart from it and are transferred to another structure. 2.3 Access to Asylum Services and Legal Aid Asylum Services continue their surprising absence from Kos, since even to this day, neither the Regional Asylum Office nor the Independent Asylum Echelon, despite even the launch of the “Hot Spot’s” on the island. ;The gap created; by the absence of Asylum Services is enormous and has created a series of serious problems, especially during this period, since the current situation on the island requires the dynamic operation of an effective and fully staffed Asylum Services Office. Specifically, the EU-Turkey Agreement anticipates the direct readmission of new arrivals to Turkey, except in the cases that file an asylum request and, until the request is evaluated for its admissibility, as noted above, in the “Procedures Upon Arrival.” Until this evaluation, new arrivals are forced to stay on the island and their transfer towards another part of Greece is prohibited. In fact, after the first 25 days they arrive, they are giving a waiver lifting the restriction of their movement within the “Hot Spot”, though they are still required to stay on the island until all the procedures relating to their request for asylum submitted to the Greek authorities is completed. As a result, new arrivals, while they can move freely in and out of the Hot Spot, they are forced to remain trapped on the island, without any sort of assessment as to the time frame they will be staying. 9