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Asylum applications in Romania dropped by 55pct in the first half of this year, compared to the similar period of last year, the General Inspectorate for Immigration informs on Tuesday, according to a press release issued for AGERPRES.
Most asylum seekers come from Iraq, Syria and Iran, and most requests have been made to the centers in Timisoara and Bucharest.
As regards access to a new asylum procedure, there were 125 applications, compared to 47 in the similar period of 2017.
The analysis showed that during this period, immigration police solved 521 applications for international protection at the administrative stage, in 282 cases being granted a form of protection, of which 152 received refugee status and 130 subsidiary protection.
