Asylum Procedure

Egypt

Country Report: Asylum Procedure Last updated: 09/07/25

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The Chapter: Asylum procedure in Egypt contains sections on:

A. General

  1. Flow chart
  2. Types of procedures
  3. List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure
  4. Number of staff and nature of the determining authority, UNHCR

B. Access to the procedure and registration

  1. Access to the territory and push backs
  2. Removal and refoulement
  3. Registration of the asylum application
  4. Applications from detention and at the border

C. Procedures

  1. Regular procedure
  2. Dublin
  3. Admissibility procedure
  4. Accelerated procedure

D. Guarantees for vulnerable groups

  1. Identification
  2. Special procedural guarantees

E. Subsequent applications

F. The safe country concepts

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

Egypt

Table of contents

  • Statistics
  • Overview of the legal framework
  • Introduction to the asylum context in Egypt
  • Egypt as a country of destination, transit and origin
  • EU-Egypt Cooperation on Migration
  • Asylum Procedure
  • Reception Conditions
  • Detention of Asylum Seekers
  • Content of International Protection
  • Temporary Protection