2015 KEY FIGURES (AS AT END-OCTOBER)
- 335,021 Registered intentions to seek asylum in 2015
- 29.5% of registered intentions were expressed by minors in October
- 93.5% of registered intentions were from refugee-producing countries in October
Highlights
- The number of refugee arrivals from averaged 4,900/day. Registration capacities were stepped up to over 8,000 persons/day in Preševo and 500/day elsewhere.
As at 16 November, 435,981 intentions to seek asylum were registered in 2015.
180,344 asylum-seekers were registered in October 2015, compared to 51,054 in September, 37,195 in August and 29,037 in July. 93.5% of registrations in October originated from refugeeproducing countries, including 53.5% from Syria and 29.6% from Afghanistan. Share of registered children grew from 27.3% in September to 29.5% in October. Only 3 asylum applications were actually submitted to the Asylum Office of the Ministry of Interior in October (34 in September), 4 asylum-seekers were awarded subsidiary protection and no asylum-seekers were given asylum (refugee status). 62 asylum-seekers were in procedure and residing in asylum centres in Serbia at end-October.
Intention to apply for asylum (Source: Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia) 86,215 registered their intention to seek asylum during the reporting period.