Immigration Office (Office des étrangers/ Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken)

Statistics Unit

Boulevard Pacheco 44, B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Data collection on asylum statistics contains statistical information based on the Article 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection.

Asylum applications:

• Asylum, first time and subsequent applicants by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applicants having had their applications processed under the accelerated procedure by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Applicants having benefited from material reception conditions at the end of the reference year;
• Asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors by citizenship, age and sex.

Decisions on asylum applications:

• First instance decisions on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted at first instance decision by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Final decisions in appeal or review on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted as final decision in appeal or review by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors).

Resettled persons:

• Resettled persons by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and country of previous residence;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and resettlement framework. 

In March 2022, the European Commission activated the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC for people from Ukraine seeking refuge.

Temporary protection:

• Decisions granting temporary protection by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Beneficiaries of temporary protection at the end of the month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors).

See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Migration and asylum – Asylum statistics.

See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Persons

See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

All applications lodge in Belgium or at Belgium International border crossing points.

See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

The FPS (Federal Public Service) Home Affairs and its Statistics Unit (located in the DG Immigration Office) was officially designated as Other national statistical authorities (see 1/ “ List of National statistical institutes (NSI) and other national authorities” in the list of links to public documents and 2/ “Letter sent by Statbel to Eurostat to designate the FPS Home Affairs as ONA” in the list of internal documents available on request) in charge of AMM (Asylum and Managed Migration) data collection in line with the mission of FPS Home Affairs (the main actor in charge of the implementation of the legislation related to migration at national level, i.e. “Law of 15th December 1980 on access to the territory, residence, establishment and removal of aliens”).

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Statistiques nationales | IBZ https://dofi.ibz.be/fr/figures/international-protection/applicants-international-protection/statistiques-nationales 

Statistiques européennes | IBZ https://dofi.ibz.be/fr/figures/international-protection/applicants-international-protection/statistiques-europeennes

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The statistics collected under Regulation 862/2007 are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various users need.

The Asylum statistics produced are regularly used by national administrations:
academic researchers and civil society groups working on a wide range of topics including the integration of immigrants, the development and monitoring of national asylum and immigration procedures, and the projection of the future population and labour force. 

The following national institutions and administration entities can be mentioned in this context:
Immigration Office, Cabinet Ministers, Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, Federal agency for reception of asylum seekers (FEDASIL), Council for Alien Law Litigation, Federal Migration Centre, academic researchers...

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See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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The accuracy of the national asylum statistics is generally considered to be high.

The statistics about asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors, due to delays to receive age assessment’s results, the accuracy is not perfect.

The statistics on first-instance decisions on applications may be influenced by the number of newborns in decisions on refugee status.

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There are no discrepancies between the Eurostat and national target population.

The average delay in registering administrative events in the register is zero days from the day these events occurred.

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See table 14.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Asylum application statistics is consolidated each month (5 days after the end of the month).

Asylum decision statistics is consolidated each month (about 5-10 days after the end of the month).

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Data validations are performed monthly, such as checking population coverage, comparing with previous periods, checking for outliers, investigating inconsistencies in statistics (checking consistency of "Total" values over each variable), validating statistics against expectations and domain intelligence, confronting data with other relevant data, back check of data in the register. 

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