Access to effective remedies: The asylum-seeker perspective

Summary:

Drawing on evidence from interviews with almost 900 asylum seekers, this report presents asylum-seeker experiences in submitting an appeal against a negative asylum decision. While documenting good practices, it also highlights several obstacles which make it difficult for asylum applicants to access effective remedies.

Further information:

Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union guarantees the right to an effective remedy to everyone. According to Article 39 of the Asylum Procedures Directive, European Union law requires that asylum seekers shall have the right to request a review of their asylum decision before a court or tribunal.

For this report, the FRA interviewed 877 asylum applicants of 65 different nationalities across the 27 EU Member States. They were asked about their experiences of the asylum procedure in their country of residence.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published two reports on asylum procedures in the EU, ahead of the Ministerial Conference on Asylum in Brussels on 13-14 September 2010. The reports contain the results of interviews with almost 900 asylum-seekers of 65 different nationalities, which took place in each of the 27 EU Member States.

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