Applications for international protection as at 31 March 2023 and decisions on temporary protection

The Ministry of the Interior has just published the monthly advance of cumulative international protection data as at 31 March 2023; 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, March 2023

• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data as at 31 March 2023

APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED’
Applications submitted:
39.827
Age:
0-13 years: 6.023
14-17 years old: 1.640
18-34 years: 18.861
35-64 years: 12.824
65+ years: 479
Country of origin:
Venezuela:  14.436
Colombia: 13.303
Peru: 3.446
Honduras: 1.135
Cuba: 810
Place of submission of the petition:
National territory: 38.970
Border crossing point: 551
C.I.E.: 253
Embassy* (family extension applications): 53
Province:
Madrid: 14.346
Barcelona: 2.316
Malaga: 1.681
Palmas, Las: 1.318
Valencia / Valencia: 1.167

Autonomous Community:
Madrid, Community of: 14.346
Andalusia: 4.931
Catalonia: 3.796
Canary Islands: 2.426
Castile and Leon: 2.169

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PROPOSAL FOR A RESOLUTION

FAVOURABLE
Refugee status
1.685
Subsidiary Protection (PS)
1.422

Country of origin
Mali: 1.190
Honduras: 258
Russia: 208
Afghanistan:  207
Colombia: 176

UNFORGETTABLE
10.175
Country of origin
Colombia: 4.448
Morocco: 1.089
Peru: 733
Honduras: 607
Senegal: 460

HUMANITARIAN REASONS
17.671
Country of origin
Venezuela: 17.412
Peru: 81
Colombia: 60
Chile: 38
Argentina: 30

FILES:
787

Cessation of refugee status:
16

Cessation of subsidiary protection:

8

RECOGNITION RATE
Mali: 95,81%
Burkina Faso: 92,11%
Sudan: 87,25%
Afghanistan: 84,49%
Russia: 74,55%
TOTAL: 9,22%

PROTECTION RATE
Venezuela: 99,71%
Mali: 95,81%
Panama: 94,44%
Burkina Faso: 92,11%
Sudan: 87,25%
TOTAL: 64,05%

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 protectiononal. Number of persons who have lodged an application for international protection or who are included in 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 filing 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 their elevation to the IACHR, in response to applications for international protection declared admissible. With the exception of the number of archiving proposals (in the terms of Article 27 of Law 12/2009, of 30 October, regulating the right to asylum and subsidiary protection), this information is presented disaggregated by type of decision and by country of origin. Likewise, by country of origin, an approximation to the recognition rate is included (without considering the authorizations of stay or residence in Spain for humanitarian reasons as favorable resolutions), and another approximation to the protection rate (including said authorizations as favorable resolutions).

Breakdown of data for motions for resolutions

• Refugee Status: data on asylum concessions, family extension of asylum and reunification of the Convention have been taken into account; Geneva.
• Subsidiary Protection: data on Subsidiary Protection concessions, Subsidiary Protection Family Extension and Subsidiary Protection Regrouping have been counted.
• Unfavourable: the data of Unfavourable Resolutions and Exclusion have been counted.

Istatistical information in reusable format:

• Monthly data on temporary protection 2023:
  • January 2023
  • February 2023
  • March 2023
• Monthly progress of accumulated international protection data up to March 2023

* Information obtained through the Ministry of Interior web portal.