65,833 Ukrainian exiles, excluding minors, were registered on French soil at the end of 2022, 75% of them women, according to provisional data published this Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior.
Most of the arrivals from Ukraine were registered before the start of the conflict or in the first weeks of the Russian invasion, with 50,000 temporary protections granted until April.
“The document is issued very quickly to Ukrainians who request it and gives access to specific rights (children’s schooling, financial aid, housing assistance, medical care, etc.),” the ministry said. This title is valid for six months and is renewable.
These temporary protections affect 75% of women. The regions that host the most Ukrainians are, in order, Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Grand Est.
“Much fewer” asylum applications from Ukrainians
Ukrainians “are far fewer” seeking asylum, a longer-term arrangement, Beauvau acknowledges. Indeed, there are 2,187 who have applied for asylum in 2022, and 702 who have obtained it.
More generally, the provisional figures revealed this Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior show that asylum applications, which not only affect Ukrainians, reached a level close to the record in 2022, with 137,046 first applications made at single windows. There were 138,420 applications in 2019.
56,179 people received asylum in 2022, representing a protection rate of 41.3%, according to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) and the National Asylum Court (CNDA). A slightly higher figure than in 2021.
Source: BFM TV
