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Quality Assurance Tool: Examining the application - Assessment Form: Personal Interview

This tool provide EU+ countries with a common framework for internal quality assessment and assurance of applications for international protection in the context of the substantive personal interview.
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Quality Assurance Tool: Examining the application - Assessment Form: First-instance Decision

This tool provide EU+ countries with a common framework for internal quality assessment and assurance of applications for international protection in the context of the first instance decision.

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Country Guidance: Nigeria

Please note that this country guidance document has been replaced by a more recent one.
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Country Guidance: Afghanistan

Please note that this country guidance document has been replaced by a more recent one.
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Practical Guide: Qualification for international protection

This practical guide intends to assist case officers and decision-makers in the examination of applications for international protection and application of the legal criteria on who qualifies for international protection, referring to both refugee status and subsidiary protection.

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Practical guide: Qualification for international protection - Flowchart poster for practitioners

This practical guide intends to assist case officers and decision-makers in the examination of applications for international protection and application of the legal criteria on who qualifies for international protection, referring to both refugee status and subsidiary protection.

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Practical Guide: Exclusion

This practical guide is intended to assist in the detection and examination of potential exclusion cases.

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Practical guide: Evidence assessment

This guide is designed in a similar way to the Practical guide: Personal interview. It is intended to provide support for the daily work of case officers and addresses the challenging tasks related to evidence assessment: gathering information, credibility assessment, risk assessment.

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Practical Guide: Personal interview

Being the first practical tool developed within the Agency Quality Matrix process, this practical guide is designed to assist case officers across the EU and beyond in their daily work by providing a practical checklist and brief guidance in five stages relating to the conduct of the personal int

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