You have a right to bring your family members to Bulgaria once you are granted refugee status or subsidiary (humanitarian) protection.
This does not include cases of polygamy where one of your wives is already with you in Bulgaria. You cannot reunite with additional wives even if your country of origin recognizes polygamy.
After your registration has been completed, a date for an interview will be set. Your asylum interview is very important. At this interview, the State Agency for Refugees will determine if you will receive refugee status or subsidiary protection, or if you will be denied asylum. It is important to prepare what you will say.
You will be expected to convince the SAR official that you meet the requirements for international protection. You will have to describe your reasons for seeking international protection in detail.
Regardless of how you entered Bulgaria, by law you have a right to stay in the country as soon as you apply for asylum.
Applications are handed by the State Agency for Refugees (SAR). SAR decides on individual asylum applications and grants or rejects international protection.
An application for international protection can be made by telling a state official that you seek protection or asylum. State officials include people like SAR employees, border police and detention officers.
If the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) rejects your asylum application, they will send you a letter inviting you to pick up a copy of your negative decision. It is important to get this copy: You need it to appeal your decision.
The decision will explain the reasons your application was rejected. Since the decision is in Bulgarian, you have a right to an interpreter at the time you receive the document.
