This website was developed in June 2014 and was revised in December 2017 at the request of and with the financial support of the Representation in Bulgaria of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The author of the information on the website is lawyer Iliana Savova, Director of the Refugees’ and Migrants’ Legal Protection Programme of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC).

The information has been drafted in the Bulgarian language. The contracting authority and the author are not liable for the quality of the translated versions into other languages.

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