Asylum Procedure

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The Chapter: Asylum Procedure in Bulgaria includes the following sections:

A. General

1. Flow chart of the procedure
2. Types of procedures
3. List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure
4. Number of staff and nature of the first instance authority
5. Short overview of the asylum procedure

B. Access to the procedure and registration

1. Access to the territory and push backs
2. Preliminary checks of third country nationals upon arrival
3. Registration of the asylum application

C. Procedures

1. Regular procedure
2. Dublin
3. Admissibility procedure
4. Border procedure (border and transit zone)
5. Accelerated procedure
6. National protection statuses and return procedure

D. Guarantees for vulnerable groups

1. Identification
2. Special procedural guarantees
3. Use of medical reports
4. Legal representation of unaccompanied children

E. Subsequent applications

F. The safe country concepts

1. Safe country of origin
2. Safe third country
3. First country of asylum

G. Information for asylum seekers and access to NGOs and UNHCR

1. Provision of information on the procedure
2. Access to NGOs and UNHCR

H. Differential treatment of specific nationalities in the procedure