to the Dublin Regulation criteria, enhance the transfer processing capacity and assist the Dublin Department with interpreters for information provision and other activities Unit (face to face and remote). As mentioned in Dublin: General, most administrative procedures, such as the submission of documentation, booking of appointments, receiving copies of an applicant’s file, are conducted only through online applications. As a result, physical presence in the context of Dublin procedures is only required at registration stage, during which the asylum seeker is being fingerprinted, and must sign the relevant written consent. Applications for international protection cannot be lodged if the person refuses to be fingerprinted. In case of refusal, the person will remain undocumented. The fingerprints are crosschecked in the police’s database for possible Eurodac hits. GCR is not aware of any person who refused to be fingerprinted. Where an asylum application has been lodged in Greece and the authorities consider that another Member State is responsible for examining the application, Greece must issue a request for that Member State to take charge of the applicant no later than three months after the lodging of the application, in accordance with Article 21 of the Dublin III Regulation. However, as noted in Dublin: General, following a change of practice on the part of the German Dublin Unit following the CJEU’s ruling in Mengesteab, the Greek Dublin Unit strives to send “take charge” requests within three months of the expression of the will to seek international protection, rather than the lodging of the claim by the Asylum Service, although Greece considers the actual lodging of the application and not the expression of a will to seek asylum as the starting point of this three-month deadline. The applicant is not officially informed by the Greek Dublin Unit of the fact that the request has been made, nor on the basis of what evidence. It is the asylum seekers solicitor who is following up the procedure and provides feedback on the steps that have been made. Dublin Unit officers contact the applicant directly only if the case has been rejected, in order to request for supplementary documentation, which will be included in the re-examination request. In case of a final rejection, no written information is provided to the applicant. In practice, the case is internally referred to the regular procedure. On the contrary, if the reunification request is accepted, an admissibility decision mentioning that the requested Member State is responsible to examine the asylum application, based on the provisions of the Regulation (EU) 604/2013 is delivered to the applicant. Given the severe restrictions posed by other Member States on family reunification, as they were described in the application of the Dublin criteria, the Unit consistently prepares for a rejection and anticipates re-examination requests.345 A change in statistical practices of the Dublin Unit was noted since 2020, as the publication of monthly statistics of the Unit stopped in March 2020 to be substituted by Monthly Reports issued by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.346 These Reports include some but not all the data previously provided by the monthly statistics of the Greek Dublin Unit. 2.2.1. Individualised guarantees The Greek Dublin Unit reportedly requested individual guarantees concerning the reception conditions and the access to the asylum procedure. There is no data as for the practice in 2022 Most of the transfers concern family reunification cases, therefore there is an expressed will of the applicant to move to the third country. Furthermore, the applicant may appeal or relinquish the right to appeal the decision rejecting the asylum application as inadmissible For children’s Best Interest Assessment, see above, section on application of the Dublin criteria. 345 346 ECRE, ‘The Role of EASO Operations in National Asylum Systems’, 29 November 2019, available at: https://bit.ly/2x2uzzN. One can go through the information provided in the Note of every month here https://bit.ly/3NBvgBN. 78