Rights resulting from refugee status

REFUGEE OR HUMANITARIAN STATUS

If you receive refugee status, you will have the right to:

work without special permission;
receive education in state schools and universities;
be reunited with your family reunited on the territory of Bulgaria;
be granted Bulgarian citizenship 3 years after receiving the status;
travel abroad under the terms and following the procedure for Bulgarian citizens (without a visa and with the right to reside in the other EU Member States up to 90 days within half a year).

GENERAL CONDITIONS / DISCLAIMER

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.

The reproduction or publishing of the website information or parts thereof on any carrier temporarily or permanently shall be admissible, with the exception of commercial purposes, for personal use or training and subject to the explicit indication of the source and the author. The reproduction or use of the information (the content) or parts thereof on any carrier, in any form, including its use in a digital form by allowing access to it or parts thereof at a time and place chosen individually by the end user shall be inadmissible, except with the explicit and prior consent of the rights holder.

The images in this website are used for the sole purpose of illustration of the information contained therein, and are in full conformity with the conditions set by their sources. The website content aims only to provide information to asylum-seekers or immigrants who are on the territory of Bulgaria. In this connection, the website owner neither claims copyright on any of the images used nor contests copyright on any of them in case any of the images turns out to be a copyright subject. In any event, the contracting entity and the author shall not be liable for the use thereof in case they have unintentionally infringed such rights.