2023-04-27 14:23:03
The year 2022 was especially prolific in terms of granting the right to subsidiary protection and asylum to citizens of third countries. According to the latest balance published this Thursday by the European Statistical Agency (Eurostat), EU governments approved last year 384,245 decisions what it means 40% more than in 2021 (275,040). 44% got the refugee statuswith an increase of 22% over the previous year, 31% achieved the subsidiary protectiona modality that registered a rise of 48% while 25% obtained the humanitarian protectiona figure that hides a rise of 72%.
Six out of ten decisions correspond to Germany (159,365 or 41%), ahead of France (49.990, 13%), Italia (39.660, 10%) y spain (35,765, 9%). Between the four they granted 73% of the requests for protection of the Twenty-seven. Again, the bulk of the positive decisions correspond to Syrian nationals (109,815, 29%), ahead of Afghanistan (87,530, 23%) and Venezuela (22,350, 6%), which top the list well ahead of Iraq ( 13,035, 3%), Somalia (11,740, 3%), Turkey (10,750, 3%), Ukraine (9,445, 2%), Nigeria (9,415, 2%), Mali (8,560, 2%) and Eritrea (8,145, 2%).
Venezuelans are the third nationality that obtained the most concessions, behind Syrians and Afghans.
In total, last year, the national authorities adopted 632,360 first instance decisions on asylum applications and another 218,260 final decisions after filing an appeal or review. Meanwhile, the decisions adopted in the first instance gave rise to 310,400 grants of protection status. Another 73,845 achieved a positive decision after an appeal.
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Regarding the recognition rate, that is, the proportion of all positive decisions among the total number of decisions, in 2022 it was 49% in the case of first instance decisions and 34% in the case of final decisions on appeal. Among the 10 main citizens that received decisions in the first instance in 2022, the Syrians (94%), Afghans (85%) and Venezuelans (76%) had the highest recognition rates, while the Colombians and Georgians (both 8%) and Bangladeshis (11%) They had the lowest.
Among those who had to opt for the appeal, the nationalities with the highest recognition rates were once again the Syrians (80%) y afghans (75%) but also Iranians (44%). Among the lowest are also Georgians (8%), Bangladeshis (16%) and Pakistanis (21%). The statistics also confirm that the majority of Syrians (68%) and Afghans (55%) obtained protection status in Germany, while practically all Venezuelans who requested protection (92%) obtained it in Spain.
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