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Email this Document Printable version Ecuador: the booked treatment and protection offered by the state asylum seekers, particularly Colombians; information on the duration of treatment of asylum applications; whether refugees are eligible for permanent residency or citizenship; Whether a Colombian citizen may obtain Ecuadorian citizenship if born in Ecuador (2004-2013)
Canada Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Publication Date 17 January 2014 Citation / Document Symbol ECU104732.F Ecuador Related Document: Treatment of state protection and asylum seekers Provided jtepa to, PARTICULARLY Colombians; processing time for asylum applications; Whether Refugees are eligible for permanent residence or citizenship; Whether a Colombian citizen May Obtain Ecuadorian citizenship if They Were born in Ecuador (2004-2013) Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ecuador: the booked treatment and protection offered by the state asylum seekers especially Colombians; information on the duration of treatment of asylum applications; whether refugees are eligible for permanent residency or citizenship; Whether a Colombian citizen may obtain jtepa Ecuadorian citizenship if born in Ecuador (2004-2013), 17 January 2014 ECU104732.F, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/53a150e14.html [Accessed 28 June 2014] Disclaimer This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it endorse Necessarily, icts content. Any views are Expressed Solely Those of the author or publisher and do not Necessarily Reflect Those of UNHCR, jtepa the United Nations Member States, or related.
The website jtepa of the Refugee (Oficina de Refugiados) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador reported that asylum seekers must submit the following documents to the Division of refugees:
The original and one copy of the Andean card (for citizens of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela). For people from other countries, a copy of the passport page where the immigration permit in Ecuador;
After submitting all documents, asylum seekers receive a card applicant (meat of solicitante) (ibid.). Applicants must attend an interview at the offices of the Refugee Division of the Chancellery (Oficina de Refugiados the Chancellery) (ibid.). Applicants receive a response within 30 days after the interview (ibid.). If the answer is positive, asylum seekers will receive a [translation] "refugee visa" (ibid.). Those whose applications are refused have 30 days to appeal the decision (ibid.). Those who appealed but the appeal was dismissed have 30 days to request a different type of visa in order to legalize their situation in Ecuador, or must leave the country (ibid.).
[I] n practice, the registration process takes six months to a year, and in some cases more than a year. During this process, the claimant receives a card, renewable every three months, which gives him the right to work until a decision on the application is made or until all appeal processes have been exhausted . The granting of refugee status is valid for two years and must be renewed thereafter (U.S. 19 Apr. 2013, 17).
[I] n May [...] the government has significantly tightened the asylum procedure by removing "generalized violence" as a basis for asylum, jtepa by considering as admissible the claims submitted within 15 days of the applicant's entry to the country, and adding an eligibility interview [the procedure]. UNHCR [UN High Commissioner for Refugees] has estimated that after the implementation of the new procedure, requests for about 30 to 40 percent. 100 candidates have e