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Refugee status is revoked where:
(a) the person who has been granted refugee status has made false statements, failed to provide certain data or used false documents that were decisive for granting refugee status, and there are no other grounds for maintaining the status of refugee; or
(b) after granting the refugee status it was discovered that the person should have been excluded from being a refugee.[1]
Subsidiary protection is revoked under the same grounds as the refugee status,[2] the only difference being the grounds of exclusion. In 2024, IGI-DAI issued 9 withdrawals of protection status, including 3 decisions revoking refugee status (2 for Iraqi nationals and 1 for a person from the Palestinian Authority in Palestine) and 6 decisions revoking subsidiary protection (1 for a stateless person, 3 for a person coming from the Palestinian Authority in Palestine, and 2 for Syrian nationals).[3]
According to IGI, 11 decisions on the withdrawal of international protection were issued in 2025, in accordance with Articles 14 and 19 of Directive 2011/95/EU. Of these, 4 concerned the withdrawal of subsidiary protection and 5 the withdrawal of refugee status. The decisions were distributed across several nationalities. In the case of Afghanistan, 2 decisions concerned the withdrawal of subsidiary protection and 1 the withdrawal of refugee status. For Syria, 1 decision was issued for each form of protection. In relation to Iran, 1 decision concerned the withdrawal of subsidiary protection, while for Iraq, 3 decisions concerned the withdrawal of refugee status.[4]
[1] Article 100 Asylum Act.
[2] ibid. Article 101.
[3] ibid. 23 January 2025.
[4] Information provided by IGI, 02 March 2026.