The Country Factsheet provides an overview of the main developments in migration and international protection in Belgium in 2022, based on the EMN Annual report on migration and asylum in Belgium 2022.

The following topics are covered:

• Overarching changes
• Legal migration and mobility
• Responses to the influx of persons fleeing the war in Ukraine
• 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

Please have a look at the main developments in Belgium in 2022 in the Belgian Country Factsheet attached above.

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