Asylum applications and refugees in Argentina

1,452 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2020 in Argentina - according to UNHCR. Most of them came from Venezuela, Bolivia and from Cuba. A total of 438 decisions have been made on initial applications. Which were around 28% answered positively. 72 percent of asylum applications have been rejected in the first instance. Most successful have been the applications of refugees from Bolivia and from El Salvador.

In a second table below you find the refugees, who fled from Argentina and made their asylum application in other countries.

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Development of incoming asylum applications in Argentina 2000 to 2020

The top line represents the total number of asylum applications (first applications + reviews). Below there are the number of recognized refugees (green) and the rejected applications (red).

Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Argentina

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2020. Please note that the number of decisions (acceptations or rejections) does not have to sum up with the number of applications, because there may still have been open cases from previous years. Also they dont have to be closed within the same calendar year. In addition, asylum procedures can also be closed, if the applicant disappeared or withdrew the application.

Origin	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	New Applications
Venezuela	1,159	5	0	100.0 %
Bolivia	65	60	0	100.0 %
Cuba	56	5	59	7.8 %
Colombia	44	5	0	100.0 %
Dominican Republic	31	0	55	0.0 %
Haiti	19	5	66	7.0 %
Senegal	17	0	54	0.0 %
Syria	17	5	0	100.0 %
Peru	13	5	0	100.0 %
El Salvador	6	14	0	100.0 %
Bangladesh	5	0	5	0.0 %
West Bank	5	5	0	100.0 %
India	5	0	16	0.0 %
Morocco	5	0	0
unknown	5	5	0	100.0 %
Egypt	0	0	5	0.0 %
China	0	0	5	0.0 %
Congo (Dem. Republic)	0	0	5	0.0 %
Ghana	0	0	29	0.0 %
Honduras	0	0	5	0.0 %
Jordan	0	5	0	100.0 %
Nicaragua	0	5	0	100.0 %
Nigeria	0	0	5	0.0 %
Ukraine	0	0	5	0.0 %
Totals	1,452	124	314	28.3 %

Origin	applied	accepted	rejected
	Reviews
Venezuela	0	0	0
Bolivia	0	0	0
Cuba	17	0	0
Colombia	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	39	0	0
Haiti	67	0	0
Senegal	29	0	0
Syria	0	0	0
Peru	0	0	0
El Salvador	0	0	0
Bangladesh	5	0	0
West Bank	0	0	0
India	15	0	0
Morocco	0	0	0
unknown	0	0	0
Egypt	5	0	0
China	0	0	0
Congo (Dem. Republic)	0	0	0
Ghana	18	0	0
Honduras	0	0	0
Jordan	0	0	0
Nicaragua	0	0	0
Nigeria	0	0	0
Ukraine	0	0	0
Totals	195	0	0

Asylum applications of refugees from Argentina

Argentina is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2020 there have been 568 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Argentina in other countries. Most successful have been the applications in the Netherlands and in Spain.

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	New Applications
Spain	411	14	258	5.1 %
Mexico	50	0	11	0.0 %
United States	42	0	5	0.0 %
Italy	17	0	17	0.0 %
United Kingdom	14	0	5	0.0 %
France	11	0	5	0.0 %
Germany	11	0	0
Australia	7	0	5	0.0 %
Netherlands	5	5	0	100.0 %
Sweden	0	0	5	0.0 %
Brazil	0	0	15	0.0 %
Costa Rica	0	0	5	0.0 %
Totals	568	19	331	5.4 %

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	Reviews
Spain	0	0	0
Mexico	0	0	0
United States	34	0	10	0.0 %
Italy	0	0	0
United Kingdom	0	0	0
France	0	0	0
Germany	0	0	0
Australia	6	0	0
Netherlands	0	0	0
Sweden	6	0	13	0.0 %
Brazil	0	0	0
Costa Rica	0	0	0
Totals	46	0	23	0.0 %

National migrant stock from 1960 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 2,086,302 migrants lived in Argentina. These are all residents who live permanently in the country but were born in another country. The amount includes granted refugees but no asylum seekers. The data are based on the results of censuses, as well as on estimates and projections of the United Nations Population Division.

(Values of the graph in millions of immigrants)

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