Refugees in Portugal

Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Portugal

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2017. 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
Congo (Dem. Republic)		160	0	115	0.0 %		0	0	0
Ukraine		125	5	10	33.3 %		0	0	0
Angola		120	0	60	0.0 %		0	0	0
Congo		55	0	45	0.0 %		0	0	0
Guinea		45	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Sierra Leone		35	0	25	0.0 %		0	0	0
Venezuela		35	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Afghanistan		30	5	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
Cameroon		30	0	20	0.0 %		0	0	0
Iraq		30	5	0	100.0 %		220	0	0
Russia		30	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Senegal		25	0	20	0.0 %		0	0	0
Algeria		20	0	15	0.0 %		0	0	0
Gambia		20	0	15	0.0 %		0	0	0
Iran		20	5	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
Pakistan		20	0	0			0	0	0
Brazil		15	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Mali		15	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Mauritania		15	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Somalia		15	0	0			0	0	0
Ivory Coast		10	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Ghana		10	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau		10	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Morocco		10	0	10	0.0 %		0	0	0
Nigeria		10	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Syria		10	0	5	0.0 %		415	0	0
Zimbabwe		10	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Central Africa		5	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Egypt		5	0	0			0	0	0
Eritrea		5	85	0	100.0 %		60	0	0
Israel		5	0	0			0	0	0
South Korea		5	0	0			0	0	0
Libya		5	0	0			0	0	0
unknown		5	0	0			0	0	0
Sudan		5	0	0			0	0	0
Togo		5	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
Turkey		5	0	0			0	0	0
Tanzania		5	0	5	0.0 %		0	0	0
stateless		5	0	0			10	0	0
Ethiopia		0	0	0			5	0	0
Indonesia		0	0	0			30	0	0
Sri Lanka		0	5	0	100.0 %		0	0	0
Totals		990	110	435	20.2 %		740	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 2017 there have been 90 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Portugal 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		39	0	0			20	0	0
Brazil		34	0	0			0	0	0
Canada		11	0	11	0.0 %		0	0	5	0.0 %
Australia		6	0	0			0	0	0
United Kingdom		0	0	6	0.0 %		0	0	0
Totals		90	0	17	0.0 %		20	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.