Applications for international protection as at 30 September 2022 and temporary protection decisions

The Ministry of the Interior has published the monthly advance of accumulated international protection data as at 30 September 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, September 2022

• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data as at 30 September 2022

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED’
Applications submitted:
86.829
Age:
0-13 years: 12.203
14-17 years old: 3.195
18-34 years: 43.373
35-64 years: 26.530
65+ years: 1.528
Country of origin:
Venezuela:  34.063
Colombia: 25.351
Peru: 6.421
Morocco: 3.063
Honduras: 2.195
Place of submission of the petition:
National territory: 83.612 
Border crossing point: 2.128
C.I.E.: 709
Embassy* (family extension applications): 380
Province:
Madrid: 35.078 
Barcelona: 5.164
Valencia / Valencia: 3.138
Murcia: 3.087
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 3.064

Autonomous Community:
Madrid, Community of: 35.078
Andalusia: 8.469
Catalonia: 7.276
Region of Valencia: 5.250
Canary Islands: 4.758

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PROPOSAL FOR A RESOLUTION

FAVOURABLE
Refugee status
5.039
Subsidiary Protection (PS)
5.335

Country of origin
Mali: 3.087
Ukraine: 1.320
Afghanistan: 1.241
Syria:  902
Colombia: 474

UNFORGETTABLE
36.372
Country of origin
Colombia: 10.648
Venezuela: 6.115
Morocco: 2.593
Honduras: 2.249
Peru: 1.565

HUMANITARIAN REASONS
13.041
Country of origin
Venezuela: 12.768
Colombia: 162
Peru: 22
Panama:17
Chile: 13

FILES:
3.091

Cessation of refugee status:
33

Cessation of subsidiary protection:

6

RECOGNITION RATE
Afghanistan: 97,64%
Burkina Faso: 96,22%
Eritrea: 95,52%
Sudan: 91,50%
Mali: 90,61%
TOTAL: 15,90%

TASA PROTECTION
Afghanistan: 97,64%
Burkina Faso: 96,22%
Eritrea: 95,52%
Sudan: 91,50%
Mali: 90,61%
TOTAL: 36,19%

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 account for applications submitted to embassies (*applications for family extension), or for resettlement.
2
The five categories with the highest values are presented in the breakdowns by country of origin. In the calculation of the recognition rate and the protection rate (considering authorisations of stay or residence 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 OF APPLICATIONS AND PROPOSALS FOR RESOLUTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

This is a tool for disseminating statistical operation 7874 Statistics of 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
  • September 2022
• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data up to September 2022
• Quarterly progress of accumulated international protection data up to September 2022

* Information obtained through the Ministry of Interior web portal.