Preliminary checks of third country nationals upon arrival

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There are no checks foreseen for people entering Hungary illegally. When they are apprehended by the police, they are not identified, their data is not registered, and they are not allowed to submit an asylum claim. Instead, they are pushed back to Serbia. The only data registered was their nationality, which was recorded based on their self-identification (see section 1.2 Irregular entry and police ill-treatment). However, in the statistics on pushbacks provided by the Police in 2024, the breakdown by age is also recorded.