If you receive a decision refusing a status, it is very important to immediately inform your representative and your lawyerif they were not with you when the interviewer gave you this decision and asked you to sign!
If you do not have a lawyer and cannot get in touch with your representative, you must immediatelygo to one of the offices of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee in order to be helped by their lawyers.
BULGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE - SOFIA
Address: Sofia, 1 Uzundzhovska str., floor 3
Telephone: 00 359 2 981 3318
Telephone: 00 359 2 980 2049
Web site: www.bghelsinki.org
BULGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE - SVILENGRAD
Address: Svilengrad, 5 General Strukov str.
Telephone: 00 359 379 63 118
Web site: www.bghelsinki.org
BULGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE - HARMANLI
Address: Harmanli, 23 Druzhba neighbourhood Administrative building of the Refugee Camp, floor 1
Telephone: 00 359 2 980 2049
Web site: www.bghelsinki.org
The lawyer has to immediately write an appeal to the courtagainst the decision of the Bulgarian authorities refusing you a status.
The appeal has to be signed by you and your representative and taken to the refugee camp where you were issued the registration card.
The staff of the camp of the Refugee Agency are obliged to receive your appeal and give you back a copy which is stamped and dated.
The appeal must be lodged within a certain time limit from the day on which you received the decision refusing you a status.
You must keep the copy of the appeal with the stamp on itand take it to the lawyer who was with you during the interview or to the lawyers of the Helsinki Committee, if they wrote your appeal.
After some time you will receive, at the address where you live, a notice from the courtindicating the day and time when your case will be heard by the judicial authorities. You have to take this notice to the lawyer who was with you during the interviews.
If you did not have a lawyer during the interviews at the Agency for Refugees and your appeal was written by the lawyers of the Helsinki Committee, you have to take the notice from the court to them and they will tell you who will accompany and help you during the procedure before the court.
