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Asylum and Refugee Status through UNHCR Mauritania

MauritaniaHumanitarian protection

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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

An asylum mechanism with two protection statuses: refugee status, and, for an asylum seeker who does not meet the conditions for refugee status, a separate Protected Person status.

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

Refugee: any foreign or stateless person with a well-founded fear of persecution because of race, religion, membership of a particular social group or political opinions. Protected Person: a person who does not meet the refugee conditions but establishes exposure in their country to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.

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  • https://rimap.unhcr.org/index.php/node/40368
    « Réfugié » toute personne étrangère ou sans nationalité craignant, avec raison, d’être persécutée, du fait de sa race, de sa religion, de son appartenance à un certain groupe social ou ses opinions politiques.
  • https://rimap.unhcr.org/index.php/node/40368
    « Personne à Protéger » désigne toute personne qui ne remplit pas les conditions pour se voir reconnaître la qualité de réfugié et qui établit qu’elle est exposée dans son pays à la torture ou à des traitements inhumains ou dégradants.

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

A refugee-status request is addressed to the Minister of the Interior; a Protected Person status request is addressed to the Minister in charge of foreign affairs. The official source does not state whether the request can be made at the border or only in-country.

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  • Whether the request can be made at the border or only in-country is not stated in the captured text.

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

A National Consultative Commission on Refugees and Persons to be Protected (CNCRPP) gives an opinion within three months, extendable to six; it may investigate, gather information and request additional material. Except for compelling national-security or public-order reasons, expulsion cannot be carried out before appeal remedies are exhausted. The official source does not state registration, family handling or support during the process.

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  • Registration steps, family handling and material support or rights during the process are not stated in the captured text.

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

A refugee-status request is addressed to the Minister of the Interior and a Protected Person status request to the Minister in charge of foreign affairs. UNHCR (HCR) can itself originate a refugee-status request, as can the applicant.

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Limits of the record
  • No official assistance/contact channel or fraud warning is stated in the captured text.
  • The receiving ministries are cited in R3 for this route and are not repeated here.

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

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