Safeguarding protection, ensuring efficiency: quick processing of claims unlikely to succeed

Last updated: 4 June 2025

The Asylum Capacity Support Group Secretariat is pleased to invite you to the upcoming technical meeting of the Asylum Capacity Support Group Dialogue Platform “Safeguarding protection, ensuring efficiency: quick processing of claims unlikely to succeed”.

With over 8 million asylum-seekers awaiting decisions on their refugee status globally, asylum systems continue to face increased pressure. This reflects both the scale of forced displacement but also situations where those moving for non-refugee related reasons are turning to the asylum system as a means of securing temporary legal stay, contributing to longer processing times and further burdening already overstretched systems. In response, States are looking for practical solutions to strengthen the efficiency and integrity of their asylum systems, while still ensuring accessibility and fairness. One approach is designing asylum procedures to be as efficient as possible for different claim types particularly for applications that are unlikely to result in refugee status, such as manifestly unfounded claims. The Asylum Capacity Support Group will host a virtual event to discuss how national systems are addressing these types of claims. The event will highlight State practices, share challenges and lessons learned and identify ways to support a wider and more effective implementation of such procedures.

Further information, including the concept note and agenda, will shortly be available on this website and shared in due course with the ACSG mailing list.  

The meeting will take place in virtual format on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 from 15:30-17:00 pm CET with Arabic, English, French and Spanish interpretation.

For any enquiries about this meeting, please contact [email protected].

We look forward to your participation and contributions.