Pending applications for international protection are applications that are under consideration by national authorities at the end of the reference period, regardless of when they were lodged. They refer to the number of asylum seekers awaiting a decision at the end of the reference period. These statistics can also indicate how national authorities are coping with the workload of processing new applications.
Related concepts
- Application for international protection
- Asylum
- Asylum applicant
- Asylum decision
- Asylum recognition rate
- Dublin statistics
- Foreign population
- Migration
- Repeated applicant