{"id":160,"date":"2022-12-15T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:43:49","slug":"about-unhcr-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/about-unhcr-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNHCR in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution.&nbsp; We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Iceland, UNHCR supports the national authorities in executing its duties in line with international and European standards. UNHCR is <strong>not<\/strong> part of the asylum procedure in Iceland. The asylum procedure in Iceland is under the responsibility of the Directorate of Immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR in Iceland is part of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/neu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNHCR\u2019s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries<\/a>, based in Stockholm (Sweden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not found the information that you were looking for on this \u2018HELP\u2019 website, please feel free to contact us via phone or email:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0? <strong>+46 10 10 12 800<\/strong>\u00a0(Monday\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Friday, 10.00-12.00 Stockholm time)<br><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Email:<\/strong>\u00a0? <a href=\"mailto:swestprotection@unhcr.org\">swestprotection@unhcr.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\"><strong>If you don&#8217;t speak either English or Swedish<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only answer calls in English or Swedish, you can send us an e-mail in your&nbsp;<strong>preferred language<\/strong>&nbsp;explaining your situation, and we will reply. Our reply will, in most cases, be in English, but we encourage you to use&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;if you have difficulties understanding it or send us another e-mail asking us to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution.&nbsp; We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iceland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}