U.S. Committee for Refugees World Refugee Survey 2004 - Italy
|Publisher||United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants|
|Publication Date||25 May 2004| |Cite as||United States
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, U.S. Committee for
Refugees World Refugee Survey 2004 - Italy , 25 May 2004,
available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/40b4593e0.html
[accessed 19 June 2013]| At the end of 2003, Italy hosted
between 5,600 and 8,600 refugees and asylum seekers in need of
protection. These included estimates of between 5,000 and 8,000
asylum seekers with pending cases, and 630 persons granted
refugee status during the year. The pending number is estimated
as the process is decentralized and no information was available
from the regions. No statistics were available on the number of
asylum applications in 2003. Italian authorities issued
decisions on around 3,800 applications, granting refugee status
in around 630 cases (17 percent). Authorities also granted
residence permits on humanitarian grounds in some