After you apply for asylum in Slovenia, you will remain accommodated in the Asylum Home unit and stay there until your application is resolved. In exceptional cases exemptions of this rule are possible. Please advise social workers at the reception centre about the exemptions.
➡ If your application is rejected and you do not decide to appeal the decision, you will be requested to leave the accommodation facilities within 15 days.
➡ If you are recognized as a refugee1, you will have to move out of accommodation centre within 15 days. This does not apply if you are an unaccompanied child and accommodated in a High School Student Dormitory, as you will be allowed to extend your stay in the High School Student Dormitory until you reach 18 years of age.
➡ If you wish to return to your country voluntarily, you can ask IOM for assistance (see section on What to do if you want to return to your home country).
As a refugee and during the integration process, you can be accommodated in the integration house or you may choose to reside in a private accommodation.
There are two Integration houses that are run by the Ministry of Interior, one is located in Ljubljana and another on Maribor. You can stay in the Integration house for free for one year, once you sign the agreement on integration activities. If you actively follow your integration agreement, attend at least 80% the Slovenian language and society courses, and meet with your integration counsellor at least once per month, your stay can be extended for another 6 months, following an assessment. If new vulnerability circumstances appeared during your stay, this period can further be extended for 6 months.
You can submit your application for the accommodation in the integration house in person at the meeting with your integration counsellor at the Government Office for Support and Integration of Migrants (GOSIM) or you can send it in by post to the Office, at “Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za oskrbo in integracijo migrantov, Cesta v Gorice 15, 1000 Ljubljana”. Instructions are available on the following website Nastanitev v integracijski hiši ali drugi nastanitveni zmogljivosti urada | GOV.SI (Slovenian language). Application form (Vloga in Slovene language) is available on website of the “Regulation on the procedures and conditions for guaranteeing the rights of beneficiaries of international protection” (Slovenian language).
If you do not wish to stay in the integration house or if it is not available, you will have to find another accommodation by yourself or with the support of NGO:
Slovene Philanthropy
Address: Cesta Dolomitskega odreda 11, 1000 Ljubljana
Tel: +386 1 430 12 88
Website: www.filantropija.org/about-us/ (Slovenian and English language)
Email: [email protected]
You will receive assistance from your integration counsellor and the non-profit organizations that are providing integration support. If you do not have financial means to cover accommodation costs, you are entitled to a financial assistance covering the cost of your accommodation for one year after recognition and signing of the agreement on integration activities. This financial assistance can be extended for another year, upon condition that you have attended at least 80% of the Slovenian language and society orientation courses and have been actively in contact with your integration counsellor on a monthly basis. Financial assistance covers rent and utility costs.
Students without financial means in Slovenia, and without their parents or legal guardians, are entitled to financial assistance until they finish their education, provided they have not yet reached the age of 26 and received the student status within one year after signing of the agreement on integration activities.
Unaccompanied refugee children, who have no means of survival, are entitled to two years of financial assistance for private accommodation after they turn 18 years and can no longer stay at the accommodation facility for unaccompanied children.
You can submit your application for financial assistance to cover your accommodation and utility cost in person at the meeting with your integration counsellor at the Government Office for Support and Integration of Migrants (GOSIM) or you can send it in by post to the Office, at “Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za oskrbo in integracijo migrantov, Cesta v Gorice 15, 1000 Ljubljana”. Instructions and an application form are available on the following website Prejem denarnega nadomestila za nastanitev na zasebnem naslovu | GOV.SI (Slovenian language).
Such an application must also include the following supporting documents:
- a copy of your tenancy agreement,
- an agreement on the transfer of the financial assistance (in cases where the financial assistance is transferred to the landlord),
- a valid decision on the eligibility for the financial social assistance on the date of the application or a certificate of the application for financial social assistance,
- a statement of the balance on all bank accounts of the applicant and members of his/her family for the last three months preceding the month in which the application is submitted,
- a statement of the bank account balances of the debtor who is obliged and able to support the applicant or members of his/her family for the last three months preceding the month in which the application is lodged,
- proof of the expenses paid (if the amount is not specified in the rental contract),
- enrolment certificate (for students up to 26 years of age after completing 3 years of international protection and once 2 years pass after the signing of the agreement on integration activities),
- certificate of the birth registration (in case of a new family member).