Eligibility Quiz
Are you a Ukrainian national (or family member) displaced from Ukraine on or after February 24, 2022?
Requirements
Eligibility depends entirely on the nature of the threat you face in your country of origin or habitual residence.
- Asylum (Refugee Status): You must demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. This persecution must be specific to you or your group, and your home country must be unable or unwilling to protect you.
- Subsidiary Protection: You qualify if you do not meet the strict criteria for Asylum but face a real risk of "serious harm" if returned. This includes the risk of the death penalty, execution, torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, or a serious threat to life due to generalized violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict.
- Temporary Protection (Ukraine): This is currently restricted to Ukrainian nationals, stateless persons, and third-country nationals who had international protection in Ukraine and were displaced on or after February 24, 2022. This status is currently active until March 4, 2026.
- Exclusions: You will be denied protection if there are serious reasons to believe you have committed a war crime, a crime against humanity, or a serious non-political crime outside of Croatia.
Conditions & Warnings
Leaving Croatia while an application is pending will result in the suspension or discontinuation of the case.
Applicants fingerprinted in another EU country before Croatia may be deported back to that country under the Dublin III Regulation.
Temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine is currently set to expire on March 4, 2026, pending further EU extensions.
Qualifications
No language requirement for the application; an interpreter is provided by the state during the process.
Fees
The application process for international protection is free of charge.