Asylum

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Access to territory

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for people to enter the country for the purpose of seeking asylum?

IDPs
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Do domestic laws and policies prohibit the penalization of asylum-seekers and refugees for irregular entry or presence?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Asylum procedures

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide access to asylum procedures for people seeking asylum?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Do domestic laws and policies provide for fair asylum procedures on appeal?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Prima facie basis

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for the recognition of refugee status on a prima facie basis?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Formal legal status

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for a legal status to refugees, authorizing them to stay in the country?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Criteria for refugee status and complementary forms of international protection

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for the “inclusion criteria” in the 1951 Refugee Convention definition of a refugee, and, where applicable, broader regional definitions, or other definitions?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Do domestic laws and policies provide for the exclusion from refugee status of persons who are not in need of international protection?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Asylum

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide complementary international protection statuses?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Ending of refugee status

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for the cancellation of refugee status?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Do domestic laws and policies provide for the cessation of refugee status?

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Removal

Questions

Do domestic laws and policies provide for protection from expulsion of refugees?

IDPs
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons

Do domestic laws and policies provide for protection from refoulement?

IDPs
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Stateless persons