{"id":130,"date":"2022-04-01T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:31:11","slug":"asylum-in-montenegro-and-how-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/asylum-in-montenegro-and-how-to-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum in Montenegro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Montenegro is a party to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/1951-refugee-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1951 Refugee Convention<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;relating to the Status of Refugees and its&nbsp;<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/protection\/basic\/3b66c2aa10\/convention-protocol-relating-status-refugees.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of <\/strong><\/a><b>Refugees and<\/b> the Government has the responsibility to process asylum claims and to decide whether somebody can be granted refugee status in Montenegro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asylum is a form of protection which allows an individual\/family fearing persecution or danger in the country of origin to remain in Montenegro and enjoy related rights. People who flee their countries because they fear persecution or danger, can apply for asylum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong> Ministry of the Interior <\/strong>is responsible for processing asylum claims in Montenegro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the asylum procedure, you are obliged to stay in Montenegro. If you leave Montenegro without permission to another country, while your asylum application is still ongoing, your asylum procedure will be terminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montenegro is a party to the&nbsp;1951 Refugee Convention&nbsp;relating to the Status of Refugees and its&nbsp;1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and the Government has the responsibility to process asylum claims and to decide whether somebody can be granted refugee status in Montenegro. Asylum is a form of protection which allows an individual\/family fearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/montenegro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}