The Country Factsheet provides an overview of the main developments in migration and international protection in Belgium in 2021, based on the EMN Annual report on migration and asylum in Belgium 2021

The following topics are covered:

• Overarching changes
• Legal migration and mobility
• International protection 
• Minors and other vulnerable groups
• Integration
• Citizenship and statelessness
• Borders, Schengen and visas
• Irregular migration including migrant smuggling
• Trafficking in human beings
• Return and readmission
• Migration and development

The Country Factsheet also includes a statistical annex.

The Factsheets of the other Member States and observer countries are available on Country factsheets (europa.eu)