Website: Statistics: Asylum and managed migration

Eurostat's statistics on asylum and managed migration comes from the Member States Ministries of Interior and related Immigration Agencies. Data are provided by the Member States since 2008 reference year on the basis of the Migration Statistics Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 862/2007) with the exception of Asylum data on applications and first instance decisions for which data prior to 2008 are available.

Asylum and Managed migration data covers:

Asylum: Asylum applicants, persons being subject of pending asylum application, asylum applications withdrawn, first instance and final decisions on applications (grants of refugee status, subsidiary protection status and humanitarian status, rejections), resettlement. These data are broken down by citizenship, age groups and sex.

Data on taking back or taking charge of asylum seekers (Dublin statistics) cover requests, acceptances and refusals of requests and persons transferred. In addition data are broken down by reasons for requests and decisions.

Residence permits: First permits granted to non-EU citizens by reasons, grants of change of immigration status or reason to stay permits, stock of all valid residence permits, and stock of long-term residents. These data are broken down by citizenship, reason for permit issuance and the length of permit validity. In addition data on grants of first residence permits, stock of permits and stock of long-term residents are broken down by sex and age groups. These data are provided by the Member States on a voluntary basis since 2010 reference year.

Based on the Blue Cards Directive Eurostat also collects data on grants, renewals and withdrawals of EU Blue Cards, including admitted family members. These data are broken down by citizenship and sector of economic activity (for grants of EU Blue Cards only).

Statistics on the enforcement of immigration legislation (EIL): Non-EU citizens refused entry at the EU external borders, apprehension of persons found to be illegally present at the territory of the EU Member State, obligations to leave the territory of the Member State, and removals of non-EU citizens whose presence was unauthorised. These data are broken down by citizenship. In addition data on entry refusals is broken down by grounds for refusal and type of border; data on apprehensions are broken down by sex and age groups.