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1600 Syrians Granted Asylum in Cyprus in 2015 According to Eurostat

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In 2015 Cyprus granted protection status to 1,600 Syrians — accounting for 85.5% of all asylum requests filed in the country — 65 Iraqis (3.6%) and 60 “stateless” persons (3.25%), according to Eurostat.
In total Cyprus made positive decisions on 1,875 applications, and 240 persons have been granted refugee status, while another 1,630 received subsidiary protection status.
In total, the 28 member states of the EU granted protection status to 333,350 asylum seekers in 2015, an increase of 72% compared with 2014. Since 2008, a total of nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU.
The largest group of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU in 2015 remained citizens of Syria (166,100 persons, or 50% of the total number of persons granted protection status in the EU member states), followed by citizens of Eritrea (27,600 or 8%) and those of Iraq (23,700 or 7%).
Syrians, for whom the number of decisions granting protection status has more than doubled compared with 2014, represented in 2015 the largest group granted protection status in more than half of the member states. Of the 166, 100 Syrians granted protection status in the EU, more than 60% were recorded in Germany (104,000). Of the 27, 600 Eritreans granted protection, more than three-quarters were registered in three EU Member States: Germany (9,500), Sweden (6,600) and the Netherlands (4,900). Of the 23, 700 Iraqis, 15, 500 were granted protection status in Germany and 2, 800 in France.
In 2015, the highest number of persons granted protection status was registered in Germany (148,200, or +212% compared with 2014), followed by Sweden (34,500, or +4%), Italy (29,600, or +44%), France (26,000, or +26%), the United Kingdom (17,900, or +26%), Austria (17,000 or +77%+) and the Netherlands (17,000, or +29%).
Out of all the persons who were granted protection status in 2015 in the EU, 246,200 persons were granted refugee status (74% of all positive decisions), 60,700 subsidiary protection (18%) and 26,500 authorization to stay for humanitarian reasons (8%). In addition to those granted protection status, the EU member states received more than 8,100 resettled refugees. It should be noted that, while both refugee and subsidiary protection status are defined by EU law, humanitarian status is granted on the basis of national legislation.
In 2015, almost 593,000 first instance decisions on asylum applications were made in the EU member states, and a further 183,000 final decisions following an appeal. Decisions made at the first instance resulted in nearly 308,000 persons being granted protection status, while a further 26,000 received protection status on appeal.
The rate of recognition, i.e. the share of positive decisions in the total number of decisions, was 52% for first instance decisions in the EU. For final decisions on appeal, the recognition rate was 14%. The outcomes of decisions on asylum applications, and therefore the recognition rate, vary between countries of citizenship of asylum applicants. Among the twenty main citizenships of asylum applicants on which decisions were taken at first instance in 2015, recognition rates in the EU ranged from less than 3% for citizens of the Western Balkan countries to more than 97% for Syrians.
Source: CNA

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