Applications for international protection as at 31 August 2022 and temporary protection decisions

The Ministry of the Interior has published the monthly advance of cumulative international protection data as at 31 August 2022; where currently also includes cessations of refugee status as well as Subsidiary Protection and the monthly data on temporary protection decisions.

• Monthly data on temporary protection, August 2022

• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data as at 31 August 2022

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED’
Applications submitted:
75.659
Age:
0-13 years: 10.656
14-17 years old: 2.788
18-34 years: 37.751
35-64 years: 23.113
65+ years: 1.351
Country of origin:
Venezuela:  29.849
Colombia: 21.829
Peru: 5.594
Morocco: 2.486
Honduras: 1.928
Place of submission of the petition:
National territory: 72.751
Border crossing point: 1.989
C.I.E.: 567
Embassy* (family extension applications): 352
Province:
Madrid: 30.592
Barcelona: 4.544
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 2.770
Murcia: 2.699
Valencia / Valencia: 2.695

Autonomous Community:
Madrid, Community of: 30.592
Andalusia: 7.366
Catalonia: 6.291 
Region of Valencia: 4.577
Canary Islands: 4.189

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PROPOSAL FOR A RESOLUTION

FAVOURABLE
Refugee status
4.567
Subsidiary Protection (PS)
4.736

Country of origin
Mali: 2.604
Ukraine: 1.320
Afghanistan: 1.130
Syria:  866
Colombia: 435

UNFORGETTABLE
32.001
Country of origin
Colombia: 9.582
Venezuela: 4.926
Morocco: 2.363
Honduras: 2.001 
Peru: 1.390 

HUMANITARIAN REASONS
11.157
Country of origin
Venezuela: 10.906
Colombia: 158
Peru: 19
Panama:17
Chile: 11

FILES:
2.884

Cessation of refugee status:
29

Cessation of subsidiary protection:

3

RECOGNITION RATE
Afghanistan: 97,50%
Burkina Faso: 96,00%
Sudan: 93,56%
Mali: 89,82%
Somalia: 87,67%
TOTAL: 16,18%

PROTECTION RATE
Afghanistan: 97,50%
Burkina Faso: 96,00%
Sudan: 93,56%
Mali: 89,82%
Somalia: 87,67%
TOTAL: 35,92%

1 The five categories with the highest values are presented in the breakdowns by country of origin, province and autonomous community. The breakdowns by province and autonomous community do not include applications submitted to embassies (*applications for family extension), nor those for resettlement.

2 The five categories with the highest values are presented in the breakdowns by country of origin. The calculation of the recognition rate and the protection rate (considering the authorisations to stay or reside in Spain for humanitarian reasons) does not include those countries for which less than ten resolutions have been adopted on the proposal of the IATRC.

PROGRESS applications and motions for resolutions on international protection

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

This is a dissemination tool for statistical operation 7874 Statistics on Foreign Population Applicants for International Protection, Refugees, Beneficiaries of Subsidiary Protection, Displaced Persons and Stateless Persons, contained in the National Statistical Plan. The data source used is the computer application called Asylum.

Description of the data submitted

• Persons applying for international protection. Number of persons who have lodged an application for international protection or who are included in an application for international protection such an application as a family member. This information is presented disaggregated by country of origin, sex and age of the applicant and province. Autonomous Community and place of submission of the application.

• Resolutions signed by the Minister of the Interior, following their elevation to the Interministerial Committee on Asylum and Refuge (CIAR). Number of decisions signed by the Minister of the Interior, after being transferred to the IATRC, in response to admissible applications for international protection. With the exception of number of archiving proposals (in the terms of Article 27 of Law 12/2009 of 30 October 2009 regulating the right to asylum and subsidiary protection), this information is presented disaggregated by type of decision and by country of origin. Also, by country of origin are included, an approximation to the rate of recognition (without considering the authorizations of stay or residence in Spain for humanitarian reasons as favorable resolutions), and another approximation to the rate of protection (including such authorisations as favourable rulings).

Breakdown of data for motions for resolutions

• Refugee Status: data on asylum concessions, family extension of asylum and reunification of the Geneva Convention have been taken into account.

• Subsidiary Protection: data on Subsidiary Protection, Subsidiary Protection Family Extension and Subsidiary Protection concessions have been counted Regrouping of Subsidiary Protection.

• Unfavourable: the data of Unfavourable Resolutions and Exclusion have been counted.

Statistical information in reusable format 

• Monthly data on temporary protection 2022:
  • March 2022
  • April 2022
  • May 2022
  • June 2022
  • July 2022
  • August 2022
• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data up to August 2022

* Information obtained through the Ministry of Interior web portal.