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GuineaHumanitarian protection

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What exactly is this: asylum, temporary protection, humanitarian admission, resettlement or another protection mechanism?

Asylum under the 1951 Geneva Convention as implemented by Law L/2018/050/AN: the set of rules governing the grant of asylum, protection and refuge to a foreign national. It also covers protection granted in the form of exceptional admission to stay for a person whose life or liberty is threatened in their country, or who is exposed there to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

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  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 3
    Article 3 : Au sens de la présente loi, le droit d'asile est l'ensemble des règles qui régissent l'octroi de l'asile, la protection et le refuge accordé à un étranger se trouvant dans une des situations décrites à l'article 4, pour autant que l’article 5 ne lui soit pas applicable.
  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 3, second paragraph
    L'asile s'entend également de la protection accordée par la République de Guinée sous forme d'admission exceptionnelle au séjour, à un étranger dont la vie ou la liberté sont menacées dans son pays ou qui y est exposé à des tortures et autres peines, ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants,

Which population, circumstances or geographic group does the mechanism cover?

It covers a foreign national in one of the situations described in Article 4 of Law L/2018/050/AN, provided Article 5 does not apply to them. It also covers, through exceptional admission to stay, a foreign national whose life or liberty is threatened in their country or who is exposed there to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The official text quoted does not set out the Article 4 situations.

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  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 17
    Article 17 : La Commission Nationale pour l’Intégration et le Suivi des Réfugiés (CNISR) est l'autorité nationale habilitée à exercer la protection juridique et administrative des réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile et d'assurer
  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 18
    Article 18 : Le Comité Permanent d’Eligibilité existe au sein de la CNISR et son secrétariat est tenu par cette dernière et statue sur le fond des demandes d’asile.

Where can protection be requested, and is this a direct application, border/in-country request, referral or other process?

The enacted Guinean asylum law L/2018/050/AN provides a statutory route: a person seeking asylum may enter, receive a 30-day safe-conduct on entry and submit a written claim to immigration, customs, police, gendarmerie, listed regional and judicial authorities, the CNISR secretariat or UNHCR. Article 24 says these receiving bodies must forward the claim to the CNISR Permanent Eligibility Committee secretariat within 48 hours. UNHCR’s Guinea country profile reports that implementing texts were validated in 2021 but no implementing decree had been published for effective implementation as of the captured page. Thus the listed places and steps are established by the law, while the currently implemented filing channel and operation of every statutory step are not confirmed by the reviewed evidence.

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  • The enacted law’s written-request and referral procedure is distinguished from present operational implementation. UNHCR reports no published implementing decree on its captured country page; this does not by itself prove that no authority currently receives asylum requests.

What happens after the request: registration, family handling, major support and rights where officially stated?

On receipt of the claim the CNISR secretariat issues an asylum-seeker certificate which serves as a temporary residence authorisation, valid for six months and renewable until the end of the procedure.

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  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 25
    Article 25: Une attestation de demandeur d'asile, valant autorisation de résidence temporaire, valable six (6) mois et renouvelable jusqu’à la fin de la procédure,

Which competent authority, UN body or official assistance channel should the person use?

The National Commission for the Integration and Monitoring of Refugees (CNISR) is the national authority empowered to exercise the legal and administrative protection of refugees and asylum seekers. Within it, the Permanent Eligibility Committee decides the substance of asylum claims, and an independent Appeals Committee is the only body competent to hear an appeal against that Committee's decision.

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  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 70
    Article 70 : Les mesures restrictives imposées aux étrangers ou à l'emploi d'étrangers pour la protection du marché national du travail ne sont pas applicables aux réfugiés.
  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 71
    Article 71: Le bénéficiaire du statut de réfugié dispose du droit d’exercer une activité professionnelle libérale en Républiqu
  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 84
    Article 84 : Les autorités guinéennes délivrent des pièces d'identité valables cinq (5) ans renouvelables, à tout réfugié se trouvant sur le territoire guinéen
  • Guinée — Loi L/2018/050/AN, Article 85
    Article 85 : Les autorités guinéennes délivrent à tout réfugié ayant opté pour l’intégration locale en République de Guinée et Payant dûment manifesté aux autorités guinéennes, une carte d'identité permanente pour résidents étrangers.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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