site.btaBulgaria's Refugees Agency Continues to Accept Protection Applications from Syrians

The Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees continues to accept protection applications from Syrians. The Agency told BTA Wednesday that it has kept open the procedure for protection-seekers from Syria or persons coming from Syria.
 
Right now the Agency has no new applications from Syrians to consider. It is in the process of reviewing 4,535 old applications as the number includes those that are in trial phase.

During a hearing in Parliament earlier on Wednesday, caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov said that there has not been a decision yet to suspend the granting of asylum to migrants from Syria. The announcement came as several European countries said that they will no longer accept Syrian asylum seekers.

 The Agency for Refugees said that it believes it is still too early to do analyses on the situation in Syria. "The situation is being monitored closely and in case the Agency receives applications for protection citing the current events, decisions for such applications will also be made in a view of the current events," the Agency told BTA.