Legal aid

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, March 29, 2024 - Today the first refugee received permanent residence in Serbia! The decision itself is dated February 19, 2024. Our legal and integration team helped Ayman from Pakistan to request/obtain asylum and now…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 28, 2023 Hungary pushed back a family of six from Syria four times in the last 7 days. The father was beaten every time by the Hungarian border police in front of his wife…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 27, 2023 Work in the field is an integral part of the support that APC provides to refugees, and this is the best way to find out about their needs and problems, in order…

Belgrade, October 5-  The Ukrainian family, Namiscukov, who have been supported by APC since their arrival in Serbia, can now rely on our organization with regards to giving birth and obtaining a birth certificate for the baby. Namely, N.M, the…

The application is now available to refugees from Ukraine in the Ukrainian language and thus allows them unhindered access while they are in Serbia but also before they come to Serbia. It enables refugees to access all relevant information about…

Asylum Protection Center provides free legal aid and assistance to Ukrainian refugees in obtaining temporary protection or in seeking asylum in Serbia, all in the context of raising influx of Ukrainian refugees (entering and/or temporarily staying in Serbia), inquiring how…

In the middle of July, while visiting locations around PC Sombor, the APC team met a family from Syria with two small kids and during the briefing learned that they had tried to cross the Hungarian fence the previous evening,…

The APC team regularly visits camps and asylum centers throughout Serbia. Almost no camp can boast of adequate conditions for accepting refugees, which they absolutely deserve. Although the majority of migrants and refugees stay in our country for a very…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: June 12, 2023   Our staff is helping Ukrainian refugees living in Serbia to renew their temporary protection status, after the government extended it for another year. Given the new bureaucratic challenges and apparent limitations…

The Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Decision on amending the existing "Decision on granting the Temporary Protection in the Republic of Serbia to Displaced Persons coming from Ukraine" which was published in the "Official Gazette of the…

APC/CZA publicly appealed to the Government of Serbia to urgently make a decision on the extending of temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine, which expires on March 19, 2023, because there are still the same justifiable reasons why the existing…

Belgrade, 11/30/2022 - The migrant or refugee population in Serbia is again "in the spotlight" of the public at this moment. Unfortunately, not on a good occasion. It all started with a new armed conflict that took place in Horgoš,…

Source: APC Belgrade, 08/29/2022 - Apart from the Asian and African refugees, those from Ukraine have also been coming to Serbia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, more than 90,000 people from…

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has published its annual report on the state of affairs in asylum and the reception of refugees in the countries of the European Union. Our Asylum Protection Center contributed to the process of writing…

APC/CZA organization regularly visits camps and asylum centers in Serbia. Our legal team is responsible for providing relevant legal information, which is of great importance to migrants and refugees. Bearing in mind that valid information is not given to them…

In Serbia, Asylum Protection Center launched a national campaign in 2021 to ensure refugees and asylum seekers could get COVID-19 vaccines. The organization is also working to protect migrant children and help them enroll in schools.     When COVID-19 vaccines…

Belgrade 22.03.2022. - After the appeal of the Asylum Protection Center and after our address to the media and the professional and general public, Serbian Government passed the Decision on Providing Temporary Protection for Refugees from Ukraine, which entered into…

Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 03/12/2022 Asylum Protection Center appealed today to the Government of Serbia to pass an act on the temporary protection of refugees from Ukraine, which would regulate the rights and position of these persons while they are in…

Source: RTS Beograde, 08.03.2022. According to UN data, 1,700,000 people left Ukraine in 10 days. By mid-March, that number could reach four million. Warnings are coming of the possibility of severe humanitarian consequences. The path of refugees from Ukraine leads…

Belgrade, March 7, 2022 - Considering the constant phone calls and the interest of citizens in obtaining relevant information regarding the conditions of reception of refugees from Ukraine in Serbia, as well as the growing influx of refugees from Ukraine,…

The practice of illegal expulsion or pushbacks of exiles is strengthening this year in the south of Serbia towards Northern Macedonia, and only in the first 6 months of 2021, according to the testimony of migrants, Asylum Protection Center documented…

Illegal and mostly violent pushing of refugees back to neighboring Serbia, the country from which they entered, has been established on almost all northern borders that Serbia shares with neighboring countries. In the first half of 2021, 527 pushbacks from…

In 2017, a little girl, named Madina Hussiny from Afghanistan, was struck and killed by a train after being illegally pushed back with her family by Croatian police to Serbia, without giving them opportunity to seek asylum in Croatia. Afterwards,…

Since the refugee crisis of 2015 and 2016, which represent milestones in the management of migration in Europe, and especially in the Balkans, there has been a tightening of border control, both the external borders of the European Union (specifically…

27/04/2021 Belgrade, The Asylum Office of the Republic of Serbia passed a new decision on family reunification in 2021. Unlike the case of family reunification from Afghanistan from last year, when six family members of Afghan citizens came to Serbia,…

Upravni sud je presudom 16 U 9284/2020 usvojio tužbu Centra za zaštitu i pomoć tražiocima azila i ponovio da je došlo do povrede prava na upotrebu i vođenje upravnog postupka na jeziku koji stranka, u ovom slučaju azilant  S.A. iz Avganistana,…

10.02.2021. Beograd, Još od stupanja na snagu Zakona o azilu i privremenoj zaštiti i donošenja Pravilnika o sadržini i izgledu obrasca zahteva za azil i sadržini i izgledu obrazaca isprava koje se izdaju tražiocu azila i licu kojem je odobren…

Maloletnik bez pratnje roditelja M. A. (16) poreklom iz Sirije, pronadjen je u šumi u okolini Subotice, i hitno dana 17.11.2020. godine primljen u bolnicu u besvesnom stanju. Dijagnostifikovana mu je hipotermija, sepsa, meningitis, delimicna oduzetost tela i upala pluća,…

25.12.2020. Novi Sad, Tačno pre godinu dana, 25.12.2019. godine grupu maloletnika bez pratnje iz Avganistana udario je automobil na putu kod Novog Kneževca, gde su se vraćali nakon tzv. push back od strane rumunske policije. Nakon neuspelog prelaska granice i…

27.11.2020. Beograd, Prema informacijama sa kojima raspolaže naš centar, Kancelarija za azil nije tokom čitave godine posetila Centar za azil Tutin gde su smeštena lica koja žele da podnesu zahtev za azil. Da bi lica koja su registrovana i koja…

23.10.2020. Presevo, APC/CZA combined team of legal and psychosocial officers working in local office in the south of Serbia and visiting different cities (Vranje, Bujanovac, Presevo, Nis etc.) and monitoring Serbian-Macedonian and Serbian-Albanian borders to follow the number of refugee’s…

06.09.2020. Belgrade, Many of refugee are arriving to Belgrade with serious injuries from the violence and illegal push back from the border with Hungary or Croatia, they are staying in the parks around the main bus station in center Belgrade.…

03.09.2020. Sid, While visiting an open location in Sid, the mobile APC/CZA team of lawyer and psychologist providing legal and psychosocial support/counseling for refugees to understand their legal position, their rights, obligations and possibilities to protect themselves. APC/CZA mobile team…

17.08.2020. Belgrade, APC/CZA team of lawyer and cultural mediator visiting asylum center Krnjaca in Belgrade and working with refugees accordingly to the guidelines against the spreading of COVID-19 (wearing mask, keeping distance and using hand sanitizer). Our team met father…

13.08.2020. Beograd, Rumunija od početka godine u velikom broju sprovodi push back sa svojih granica sa Srbijom, uz pojačanu upotrebu nasilja. Tako APC svedoči o nasilju rumunske policije, koja vraća u Republiku Srbiju i više od 200 ljudi dnevno, u…

20.07.2020. Beograd, Centar za zaštitu i pomoć tražiocima azila sa izrazitim zadovoljstvom izdaje saopštenje da su odobrene vize za prvo spajanje porodice izbeglice u Republici Srbiji od nastanka azilnog sistema 2007 godine. Naime, radi se o porodici izbeglice iz Avganistana…

Beograd, APC/CZA volonteri, studenti i kulturni medijatori uz superviziju stručnih radnika naše organizacije u Beogradu pomažu tražiocima azila i izbeglicama prilikom kupovine personalizovanih Busplus kartica za prevoz. Kao i domaći građani – ako su nezaposleni, tražioci azila i izbeglice mogu…

02.07.2020. Vranje, APC/CZA team of psychosocial and cultural mediator visiting reception center Vranje in south of Serbia, providing psychosocial support/counseling for the refugees and especially for women and family with children. Being a refugee and living in the camp will…

Pružanje informacija je i dalje najbitniji segment u zaštiti novopridošlih migranata i izbeglica u Srbiju. Naši timovi  obilaze prihvatne centre i mesta gde se izbegli nalaze na jugu Srbije, u centralnoj Srbiji i na severu zemlje. U okviru projekta “Hitna…

28.05.2020. Belgrade, APC/CZA team of pedagogue, social worker and cultural mediator working in asylum center in Krnjaca in Belgrade, providing necessary counseling/support and help for the refugees family in resolving problems they may face living in the camp with other…