Humanitarian programs
202 official humanitarian routes across 71 countries — each figure dated and cited from a government source.
Albania
Algeria
Antigua And Barbuda
Argentina
Asilo Político / Diplomático (Political / Diplomatic Asylum) — Argentina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Obtener una residencia temporaria como asilado/a y refugiado/a — Argentina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Programa Especial de Visado Humanitario para Extranjeros Afectados por el Conflicto Sirio — Programa Siria (Syrian Humanitarian Programme — CLOSED 2024) — Argentina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residencia Temporaria por Razones Humanitarias — Argentina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Australia
Global Special Humanitarian visa (subclass 202) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Permanent Protection visa (subclass 866) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee visa (subclass 200) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Safe Haven Enterprise visa (subclass 790) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subclass 201 — In-country Special Humanitarian visa — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subclass 203 — Emergency Rescue visa — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subclass 204 — Woman at Risk visa — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Temporary (humanitarian concern) visa (subclass 786) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Temporary Protection visa (subclass 785) — Australia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Medical Regularisation (Art. 9ter) — Belgium: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status (Convention 1951, Art. 48/3) — Belgium: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Stateless Person — Recognition and Residence (Art. 57/37–57/38) — Belgium: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection Status — Belgium: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Benin
Bolivia
Bosnia And Herzegovina
International Protection — Refugee Status (Geneva 1951) — Bosnia And Herzegovina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International Protection — Subsidiary Protection — Bosnia And Herzegovina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Temporary Protection (Mass Influx) — Bosnia And Herzegovina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Temporary Residence — Humanitarian Grounds — Bosnia And Herzegovina: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Brazil
Autorização de Residência - Apátrida (Stateless Person Residence) — Brazil: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Autorização de residência do imigrante reconhecido como beneficiário de proteção ao apátrida — Brazil: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Autorização de residência do imigrante reconhecido como beneficiário de proteção ao apátrida, asilo político ou refúgio — Brazil: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refúgio (Refugee Status) — Lei 9.474/1997 — Brazil: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)VITEM III — Visto Temporário para Acolhida Humanitária (Humanitarian Visa) — Brazil: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Canada
Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Convention Refugee (In-Canada) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Foreign nationals who were in state care — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Government-Assisted Refugees (GAR) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian & Compassionate (H&C) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)In-Canada Asylum Claim — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Person in Need of Protection — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Privately Sponsored Refugees (PSR) — Canada: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Central African Republic
Chile
Asilo Político (Political Asylum — Diplomatic or Territorial) — Chile: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugio (Refugee Status — Geneva Convention + Cartagena 1984) — Chile: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residencia Temporal — Razones Humanitarias (Humanitarian) — Chile: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residencia Temporal — Víctima de Trata de Personas (Trafficking Victim) — Chile: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Colombia
Croatia
Czechia
Asylum / Refugee Status (azyl, §12 Act 325/1999, Geneva Convention 1951) — Czechia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection (doplňková ochrana, §14a Act 325/1999) — Czechia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Temporary Protection — Lex Ukrajina (Council Directive 2001/55/EC) — Czechia: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Finland
Application for an extended permit on the basis of international protection — Finland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit for a victim of human trafficking — Finland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit issued because you cannot be removed from Finland — Finland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit on compassionate grounds — Finland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit on the basis of temporary protection or other humanitarian immigration — Finland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
France
Asylum Visa (Visa D) — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Carte de séjour « vie privée et familiale » – victime de traite des êtres humains ou de proxénétisme — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Carte de séjour « vie privée et familiale » – étranger placé sous ordonnance de protection (violences conjugales/familiales) — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Protection subsidiaire — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Protection temporaire — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Resettlement (UNHCR) — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Stateless Person Status — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Statut d'apatride — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Statut de réfugié — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence — France: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Germany
Asylum / International Protection (German Asylum Act) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Asylum Entitlement (Art. 16a) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Hardship Residence (§23a) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Individual Humanitarian Admission (§22) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)National Deportation Ban (§60) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Protection (§3 AsylG) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection (§4 AsylG) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence (§25(4a)) — Germany: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Iceland
Humanitarian permit on the basis of collective protection — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International protection for children of refugees — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International protection for parents of unaccompanied refugee children — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International protection for siblings of unaccompanied refugee children — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International protection for spouse of a refugee — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit for possible victims of human trafficking — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit on grounds of subsidiary protection — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit on humanitarian grounds — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permits on grounds of international protection — Iceland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Ireland
International Protection (Asylum, Ireland) — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Permission to Remain — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Resettlement (IRPP) — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence — Ireland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Italy
Asylum Application Permit — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Medical-Care Residence — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Resettlement — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Social Protection (Trafficking, Art. 18) — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Special Protection — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Stateless Person Status — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — Italy: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Montenegro
Netherlands
Harrowing-Situations Residence — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian Residence (Non-Temporary) — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Resettlement (UNHCR) — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status (Asylum) — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection (Asylum) — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence (B8/B9) — Netherlands: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
New Zealand
Panama
Peru
Poland
Constitutional Asylum (Azyl) — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian Residence — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Permission to stay on humanitarian grounds — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Residence permit for humanitarian reasons / visa D21 — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Tolerated Stay — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence — Poland: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Portugal
AR para Ex-Beneficiários de Estatuto de Residente (continuidade) — Portugal: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)AR para Ex-Beneficiários de Proteção Internacional — Portugal: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)AR para Vítimas de Infração Penal — Portugal: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)AR para Vítimas de Tráfico de Pessoas — Portugal: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Regime Excecional (Art. 123.º REPSAE) — Portugal: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Asylum / Refugee Status — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian Residence — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)International Protection (Asylum / Refugee / Subsidiary Protection) — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Resettlement Programme — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Stateless Person Status — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Residence — Spain: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Sweden
Exceptionally Distressing Circumstances — Sweden: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Protection / Asylum in Sweden — Sweden: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Status — Sweden: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Resettlement / Quota Refugees — Sweden: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Subsidiary Protection — Sweden: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
Asylum / Refugee Status — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Community Sponsorship (Resettlement) — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Discretionary Leave — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian Protection — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Leave Outside the Rules (Compassionate) — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Stateless Leave — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Trafficking Victim Leave (VTS) — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)UK Resettlement Scheme — United Kingdom: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)
United States
Asylum (Affirmative) — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Asylum (Defensive) — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Convention Against Torture Protection — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Humanitarian Parole — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Refugee Admissions (USRAP) — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Special Immigrant Juvenile — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)T Visa (Trafficking Victims) — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)U Visa (Crime Victims) — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)Withholding of Removal — United States: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026)