Serbia > Contacts

last update: July 2017

There are very few non-governmental organizations working with  refugees. There is no non-governmental organization working with undocumented migrants, the focus is on asylum seekers. The most prominent organizations include:

• APC – Asylum protection centre (http://www.apc-cza.org/)  – has offered free legal advice to asylum seekers since the creation of the Serbian asylum system in 2008. They also  provide programs of psycho-social assistance to asylum seekers. If the police refuses to give you the 72-hours-paper (potvrda o izrazenoj nameri za trazenje azila: expression of an intention to seek asylum) you can contact them, go to their office, express this intention there and you’ll get a statement of them with which the police shouldn’t refuse to give you this paper.

• BCHR – Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (http://www.bgcentar.org.rs/ -- see also their website about asylum, including information for  asylum seekers in English, French, Russian, Farsi, Pashto and Arabic: http://azil.rs/) – has also been offering free legal and psychological help to asylum seekers, since the beginning of 2012.