📋 Tender Overview
Four Syrian families and one individual arrived in Slovenia, which we selected and accepted from Turkey as part of the permanent resettlement project. Permanent resettlement is a way of ensuring legal routes to Europe for people in need of protection.
On December 1, 2022, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted a resolution which determined that the Republic of Slovenia will accept 50 citizens of Syria or Afghanistan from Turkey who can be granted refugee status in Slovenia. This was followed by the preparation of an implementation plan, in which we identified families, single mothers, single women and up to five unaccompanied minors as priority categories, especially the victims of this year's earthquake in Turkey.
We collaborated with the High Commissioner in the project. of the United Nations for Refugees. Based on their documentation, representatives of the ministry, the police and the Government Office for the Care and Integration of Migrants held talks with refugees in Turkey about fulfilling the conditions for recognition of refugee status in Slovenia and integration needs and passed the security check. They were also introduced to our country, culture and customs. On this basis, a final selection of 50 persons was then prepared who meet all the prescribed conditions and who will be immediately granted refugee status upon arrival in the Republic of Slovenia.
The first group of 23 citizens of Syria (four families and one individual) arrived in Slovenia on December 14, 2023. At the end of January 2024, we expect another group with 27 Afghan citizens. They will be accommodated in the facilities of the Government Office for the Care and Integration of Migrants.
Slovenia will receive financial resources from the European Fund for Asylum, Migration and Integration for each resettled person.
