БЪЛГАРСКИ ЛИЧНИ ДОКУМЕНТИ, ИЗДАВАНИ НА ЛИЦА С ПРЕДОСТАВЕНА МЕЖДУНАРОДНА И ВРЕМЕННА ЗАКРИЛА
BULGARIAN PERSONAL DOCUMENTS ISSUED TO FOREIGNER WITH GRANTED INTERNATIONAL AND TEMPORARY PROTECTION

Summary/Abstract: Republic of Bulgaria shall provide international and temporary protection. To every foreigner that has been granted international protection shall be issued Bulgarian identity documents. International protection shall be provided by virtue of the Refugees relating to the Status Convention (made in Geneva on 28 July 1951) and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967 and other international acts on the protection of human rights. A foreigner with granted international protection shall have the right to reside on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria for the period of validity of the Bulgarian personal documents, issued to him. He has the rights and the obligations of Bulgarian citizens with some exception. On the other hand, temporary protection shall be granted in case of mass refugees’ influx who are forced to leave their state of origin due to armed conflict, civil war, foreign aggression, violation of human rights or heavy violence in the territory of the respective state or in an individual region thereof, and who because of this cannot return there. Republic of Bulgaria issued a registration card to a foreigner, to whom temporary protection has been granted – for the period of protection. This article is an attempt to interpret the terms and the procedure for providing protection to foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as their rights and obligations, including conditions of issuance and using Bulgarian personal documents. The author’s aim is to provide a legal different between International and temporary protection.

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