Cessation of the procedure – resignation and implicit withdrawal

You may withdraw your application at any time. You must appear in person to the competent Regional Asylum Office or Asylum Unit and resign in writing. If you resign, your application will not be examined, and you will have to leave the country as long as you do not hold another residence permit.

The Asylum Service may consider that you are not interested in continuing the examination of your application (implicit withdrawal) in the following cases:

1. If you refuse to provide information of great importance for your application, that the authorities have asked from you.
2. If you do not attend your personal interview.
3. If you abscond from the place of detention.
4. If you fail to comply with the obligations imposed on you by the Police in lieu of detention.
5. If you leave the place of residence designated by the authorities without informing them.
6. If you leave the country without seeking permission from the Asylum Service.
7. If you do not inform the Asylum Service promptly of a change of your address and contact details.
8. If you do not contact the Asylum Service when requested to.
9. If you fail to produce documents which you have or ought to have in your possession and which you can produce.
10. If you do not show up to renew your card no later than the working day following its expiry date.
11. If you fail to cooperate with the authorities in breach of the obligation to cooperate.
12. If you fail to comply with a transfer decision in order to complete the reception and identification procedure, thereby preventing the smooth completion of the procedures for examining your application for international protection.

If the deciding Authorities consider that you have implicitly withdrawn your application, they will examine your application on the basis of the available evidence and if they consider it to be unfounded, they will reject it. If the Asylum Service rejects your application at the first instance, you have the right to lodge an appeal before the Appeals Authority.

If the Asylum Service considers that it does not have enough evidence available to examine your application, it will issue a decision to discontinue the examination of your application. If a decision to discontinue the examination of your application is taken, a return procedure to your country will apply. You have the right to request the continuation of the examination procedure of your case only once, and within a period of nine (9) months from the date of the decision to discontinue the examination.