Athena card is a free unlimited travel card for all means of public transportation in Athens.

From Monday 30.05.2022, with your AMKA and an identification document (passport or service note or temporary protection residence permit) you can go to a metro ticket office and get your personalized card, the athena card. Subsequently, you visit the website of IDIKA(https://www.idika.gr/athenacard/) and follow the procedures there for the activation of 90 days free travel 

You need to wait for 3 working days before you can go to a metro station and put your athena card in a machine and press subsidy, the card is then subsidized for 90 days of free travel. After 90 days you need to re-subsidize.  

PROCEDURE  

a. Visit the website of IDIKA  https://www.idika.gr/

B. Press athena card for unemployed and disabled  

C. On the top right there is an "ENTRY" button 

D. Choose alternative certification for refugees from Ukraine 

E. Write the number of the athena card 

F. Fill in an 8-digit password of your choice 

G. Fill in your AMKA  

Press ENTRY 

Up to the age of 6 the travel is free. From 7 years old and over you can issue a card for your child the same way as you do for you. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ISSUANCE OF AFM.

Από 1^st From 1st of June 2022, you can go to the offices of OASTH, 90 Alexandrou Papanastasiou Street, 546 44, ground floor, where you can apply for a travel card.

In addition, OASTH gives you the opportunity to submit your application electronically, at cards.oasth.gr, where you will select HELEXPO as the receiving point up until May 31st.

As an identification document you will need to have with you the Temporary Protection Residence Permit or, alternatively, the passport with which you entered Greece after February 24th 2022.

For any issue that may arise regarding your appointment, send an email to ukraine@migration.gov.gr.

A) If you have pre-registered and have booked an appointment for Athens / Crete, you don’t need to go to your appointment 

     B) If you have not pre-registered, you don’t need to pre-register 

Please inform us via email at tp-support@migration.gov.gr  and let us know of all the names of the interested parties for temporary protection and you will be contacted to book an appointment. 

Since 28/03/2022, there is a special self-registration platform of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, https://apps.migration.gov.gr/temporary-protection/?lang=en, where you will be able, by filling in your personal details, to schedule an appointment (date and time of arrival), at the four Regional Offices of the Asylum Service, namely:

1. Regional Asylum Office of Attica,2 P. Kanellopoulou Street, ZIP 101 77, Athens, 
2. Regional Asylum Office of Alimos, 6 Dodekanissou str., postal code 17456, Alimos (building of IOM)
3. Regional Asylum Office of Thessaloniki,5 Pontou Street - Lachanagoras area, ZIP 54628 Kalochori Thessaloniki, 
4. Regional Asylum Office of Patra,92 Kapodistriou & Panachaikou Street - ZIP 26224 Street, Patra 
5. Regional Asylum Office of Crete,Ifaistoi and Elefthernis Streets, Heraklion, ZIP 713 03 

No, the Greek authorities will not deport you. You will be able to apply for temporary protection status before the expiration of 90 days from your entry to Greece (if you have entered from February 24th and later).

The 90-day deadline applies only to the country in which you are considered to reside. Therefore, it starts upon your entry in Greece and stops when you leave. Please note that this deadline expires once you apply for and receive temporary protection status. From that moment on, you will have the right to stay in Greece for at least one year. 

You can visit Scisto Facility which is located in Perama, Attica. If you are outside Attica you will need to place a request for humanitarian aid.

In order to register your need please send an email to: ukraine@migration.gov.gr .

Please send an email to the following email address for displaced people from Ukraine: ukraine@migration.gov.gr   You will need to provide your details (name, surname, location, phone number) and the relevant department will contact you directly.