Asylum applications and refugees in Portugal

932 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2020 in Portugal - according to UNHCR. Most of them came from Gambia, Angola and from Guinea-Bissau. A total of 133 decisions have been made on initial applications. Which were around 59% answered positively. 41 percent of asylum applications have been rejected in the first instance. Most successful have been the applications of refugees from Syria and from Turkey.

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

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Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Portugal

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
Gambia	157	0	11	0.0 %
Angola	117	0	5	0.0 %
Guinea-Bissau	92	0	5	0.0 %
Morocco	85	0	0
Guinea	79	0	0
Senegal	79	0	0
Nigeria	42	0	0
Afghanistan	30	0	0
Congo (Dem. Republic)	28	0	0
Mali	25	0	0
Pakistan	23	15	5	75.0 %
Sierra Leone	21	0	0
Cameroon	16	0	0
Ghana	16	0	0
Venezuela	14	0	0
Ukraine	12	0	18	0.0 %
Iran	11	5	0	100.0 %
Bangladesh	10	0	0
Ivory Coast	10	0	0
Algeria	7	0	0
Brazil	7	0	0
Sudan	7	0	0
Togo	7	0	0
Iraq	6	5	0	100.0 %
Turkey	6	17	0	100.0 %
China	5	0	11	0.0 %
Colombia	5	0	0
West Bank	5	0	0
Haiti	5	0	0
Syria	5	21	0	100.0 %
Ethiopia	0	5	0	100.0 %
Russia	0	5	0	100.0 %
Zimbabwe	0	5	0	100.0 %
Totals	932	78	55	58.6 %

Origin	applied	accepted	rejected
	Reviews
Gambia	0	0	0
Angola	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0
Morocco	0	0	0
Guinea	0	0	0
Senegal	0	0	0
Nigeria	0	0	0
Afghanistan	0	0	0
Congo (Dem. Republic)	0	0	0
Mali	0	0	0
Pakistan	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	0	0	0
Cameroon	0	0	0
Ghana	0	0	0
Venezuela	0	0	0
Ukraine	0	0	0
Iran	0	0	0
Bangladesh	0	0	0
Ivory Coast	0	0	0
Algeria	0	0	0
Brazil	0	0	0
Sudan	0	0	0
Togo	0	0	0
Iraq	0	0	0
Turkey	0	0	0
China	0	0	0
Colombia	0	0	0
West Bank	0	0	0
Haiti	0	0	0
Syria	0	0	0
Ethiopia	0	0	0
Russia	0	0	0
Zimbabwe	0	0	0
Totals	0	0	0

Asylum applications of refugees from Portugal

Portugal is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2020 there have been 28 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Portugal in other countries. Most successful have been the applications in Mexico.

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	New Applications
United States	23	0	5	0.0 %
Mexico	5	5	0	100.0 %
Australia	0	0	0
Canada	0	0	59	0.0 %
Totals	28	5	64	7.2 %

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	Reviews
United States	21	0	0
Mexico	0	0	0
Australia	9	0	5	0.0 %
Canada	0	0	0
Totals	30	0	5	0.0 %

National migrant stock from 1980 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 837,257 migrants lived in Portugal. 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.

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