Refugees in Poland
9,798 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2016 in Poland - according to UNHCR. Most of them came from Russia, Tajikistan and from Ukraine. A total of 2,236 decisions have been made on initial applications. Which were around 4% answered positively. 96 percent of asylum applications have been rejected in the first instance. Most successful have been the applications of refugees from Syria and from Turkmenistan.In a second table below you find the refugees, who fled from Poland and made their asylum application in other countries.
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Development of incoming asylum applications [in Country] 2000 to 2016
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 Poland
The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2016. 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.New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Origin | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 7,488 | 10 | 1,125 | 0.9 % | 370 | 0 | 256 | 0.0 % | ||
| Tajikistan | 835 | 6 | 109 | 5.2 % | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ukraine | 589 | 16 | 696 | 2.2 % | 605 | 0 | 453 | 0.0 % | ||
| Armenia | 321 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 % | 16 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | ||
| Vietnam | 72 | 0 | 51 | 0.0 % | 33 | 0 | 24 | 0.0 % | ||
| Turkey | 65 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 % | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Georgia | 56 | 0 | 36 | 0.0 % | 35 | 0 | 21 | 0.0 % | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | 43 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 % | 18 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 % | ||
| Kazakhstan | 42 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 % | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Syria | 42 | 40 | 0 | 100.0 % | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Iraq | 41 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Belarus | 35 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Azerbaijan | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Pakistan | 20 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 % | ||
| Afghanistan | 19 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Uzbekistan | 16 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 % | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Iran | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| China | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Egypt | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Turkmenistan | 10 | 9 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| stateless | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Algeria | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Bangladesh | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Moldova | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Congo (Dem. Republic) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| India | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Nigeria | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | |||
| Totals | 9,798 | 81 | 2,155 | 3.6 % | 1,164 | 0 | 791 | 0.0 % | ||
Asylum applications of refugees from PolandPoland is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2016 there have been 223 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Poland in other countries. Most successful have been the applications in Canada and in the United Kingdom. | ||||||||||
New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Destination | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
| United States | 156 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Canada | 28 | 13 | 9 | 59.1 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| United Kingdom | 25 | 0 | 30 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Australia | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Switzerland | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Totals | 223 | 13 | 55 | 19.1 % | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
National migrant stock from 1980 to 2015
In 2015 a total of 619,403 migrants lived in Poland. 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)