Ukraine refugee response: Since March 2022, Montenegro has been granting temporary protection to refugees from Ukraine and hosts a large refugee community relative to its population.
Asylum: UNHCR supports Montenegro to strengthen asylum procedures, improve reception standards and foster socio-economic inclusion for refugees and asylum-seekers.
Ending statelessness: UNHCR and authorities are working to improve statelessness determination procedures for refugees.
HIGHLIGHTS
Strengthening asylum procedures
UNHCR supports national authorities in strengthening identification and referral of asylum-seekers, improve refugee status determination procedures, and enhance local integration prospects to foster self-reliance among refugees and asylum-seekers.
Statelessness
By strengthening the statelessness determination procedures (SDP) and fully implementing functional birth registration procedures, Montenegro is making steady progress to fully implement all seven statelessness pledges stemming from the High-Level Segment on Statelessness and the Global Refugee Forum.
Ex-Yugoslav refugees
With UNHCR’s assistance, the number of refugees from the former Yugoslavia with unresolved legal status decreased from 319 in late-2021, to 51 by end-2023; UNHCR aims to resolve all pending cases in early 2024.