E. Subsequent applications Indicators: Subsequent Applications 1. Does the law provide for a specific procedure for subsequent applications? Yes No 2. Is a removal order suspended during the examination of a first subsequent application? ❖ At first instance Yes No ❖ At the appeal stage Yes No In some cases (under the IPA) 3. Is a removal order suspended during the examination of a second, third, subsequent application? ❖ At first instance Yes No ❖ At the appeal stage Yes No The law sets out no time limit for lodging a subsequent application.510 Subsequent applications are lodged before the Regional Asylum Offices (RAO) across the country following appointment given upon preregistration on electronic platform. A subsequent application can also be lodged by a member of a family who had previously lodged an application. In this case the preliminary examination concerns the eventual existence of evidence that justifies the submission of a separate application by the depending person. Exceptionally, an interview shall be held for this purpose.511 A total of 8,265 subsequent asylum applications were submitted to the Asylum Service in 2022 (5,802 in 2021.512 During 2022, almost one in five asylum applications registered was a subsequent application, as in 2021. Subsequent applications in 2022* Number of applications First 7,078 Second 1,087 Third 91 Fourth 9 Total 8,265 *The initial application for international protection was placed at any given time since the launch of Asylum Service (7.6.2013) Neither the total number of subsequent applications considered admissible and referred to be examined on the merits, nor the number of subsequent applications dismissed as inadmissible at first instance in 2022 is available. “Subsequent application” is an application for international protection submitted after a final decision has been taken on a previous application for international protection, including cases where the applicant has explicitly withdrawn his/her application and cases where the determining authority has rejected the application following its implicit withdrawal. 513 The definition of “final decision” was amended in 2018. According to the new definition, as maintained in Asylum Code, a “final decision” is a decision granting or refusing international protection: (a) taken by the Appeals Committees following an appeal, or (b) which is no longer amenable to the aforementioned 510 511 512 513 Article 94 of Asylum Code. Article 94(5) of Asylum Code. Reply of the Ministry to the Greek Parliament. Article 1(κδ) of Asylum Code. 121