In Ukraine, 2,700 foreigners have been granted refugee status so far, head of the State Migration Service of Ukraine Maksym Sokolyuk said.
“As of today, about 2,700 people have been granted refugee status, about 4,000 people are in the process of obtaining the status. Those are people from different countries – Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria … The IDPs and refugees have the same rights. There is a difference in terms, but there is no difference in relation to people,” he told journalists in Kyiv on June 20.
Answering the question why the process of obtaining refugee status takes so much time, the head of the State Migration Service said: “In accordance with the procedure, such people must provide evidence that they are refugees, they fled the war, and they are not migrants.”
“Our legislation contains the best European practices, but the procedure can not take an hour or a week. Last year we simplified some procedures,” Sokoliuk said.
