{"id":910,"date":"2025-06-20T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/?page_id=910"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:43:41","slug":"information-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/kazakhstan\/information-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#faeb00\">You can apply for asylum in Kazakhstan if you are inside the country or at a border entry point (airport, land border crossing, or seaport).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republic of Kazakhstan has acceded to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and it has a national law on refugees that entered into force in 2010. As such, all claims for asylum should be submitted to the local Department of Employment and Social Programs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population is the competent government authority responsible for asylum-related matters in Kazakhstan, including the implementation of refugee legislation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the regional level, the Departments of Employment and Social Programs are responsible for the procedures related to granting, extending, revoking, and terminating refugee status, as well as the issuance of documentation to asylum-seekers and refugees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can apply for asylum in Kazakhstan if you are inside the country or at a border entry point (airport, land border crossing, or seaport).&nbsp; The Republic of Kazakhstan has acceded to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and it has a national law on refugees that entered into force in 2010. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"parent":121,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-910","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions\/1596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}