Asylum Procedure

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The Chapter: Asylum Procedure in Hungary contains 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 territory and registration

1. Access to the territory and push backs

2. Registration of the asylum application

C. Procedures

1. Regular procedure

2. Dublin

3. Admissiblity procedure

4. Border procedure (border and transit zones)

5. Accelerated 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. Safe country concepts

1. First country of asylum

2. Safe third country

3. 'Hybrid' safe third country / first country of asylum

4. Safe country of origin

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

H. Differential treatment of specific nationalities in the procedure