2.3 Million Ukrainian Refugees Are Registered for Protection in the EU, EUAA Reveals
In a statement issued the same day, the EUAA stated that an average of 300,000 refugees from Ukraine apply for this status each week, which offers them the right and important opportunities for an initial duration of one to three years, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.
“Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some 4.6 million refugees from Ukraine have entered the EU, out of about 5.3 million that have escaped the country in total. In addition, over 2.9 million have arrived in Poland, some 800,000 in Romania, and almost 500,000 and 360,000 in Hungary and Slovakia, respectively,” the statement reads.
According to the statement, the EUAA Executive Director Nina Gregory will soon be visiting some of the Agency’s operations to assess ongoing action in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, she will also meet with top national actors to provide further assistance
The countries where EUAA has about 2,000 deployed personnel are:
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Greece
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Spain
- Romania
“Analysis released by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) finds that 2.3 million refugees from Ukraine, or 44 per cent of those who have fled, have already applied for temporary protection in EU+ countries.2 The EUAA supports these efforts in Romania and almost all of its other eight operations,” EUAA reveals adding that soon new operatons will be launched in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, almost all persons who apply for temporary protection are Ukrainian citizens, or 99 per cent, two-thirds of them women, and none of them is an unaccompanied minor.
Children are also the ones who benefit from temporary protection while they are offered access to public education. In addition, beneficiaries do not have to apply for asylum, which involves a longer procedure.
The EUAA has revealed that between February 21 and April 24, Ukrainian citizens submitted around 21,700 asylum applications in EU + countries, representing less than 1 per cent of Ukrainians who entered the EU during this period.
Besides, in the first week of March, almost 9,000 applications were filed shortly after the start of the war. This number then dropped very quickly after the Temporary Protection Directive was activated on March 4 and was rapidly implemented by national authorities with the support of the European Union Asylum Agency.
