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UNHCR Slovakia - Help for refugees and asylum-seekers

Welcome to the “Help” website run by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Here, refugees and asylum-seekers can find information about their rights, obligations and services in Slovakia.

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LATEST NEWS

28 February 2024: As announced by the Slovak Ministry of Interior on its website, the validity of temporary protection [odidenec] status in Slovakia has been extended until 4 March 2025. For updating your temporary protection [odídenec] document, you can visit the Portal of the Ministry of Interior here. You can also find the information on how to apply for temporary protection [odídenec] for the first time on the Portal of the Ministry of the Interior here.

IMPORTANT: If you recently came to Slovakia, here you can find information about the possibility to seek protection (asylum) in Slovakia, and about the document “Potvrdenie o zotrvaní” you may have been issued. This information was prepared by the organization Human Rights League and is available for download in the following language versions: Arabic, English, Pashto, Turkish, and Slovak. If you seek more information about asylum in Slovakia, please click here. The information on international protection in Slovakia is available for download in the following language versions: Arabic, English, Persian, French, Kurdish, Pashto, Russian, Slovak, Swahili, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese


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