Asylum seekers will have access to the labour market as early as six months after the start of the asylum procedure. Currently, a nine-month period applies. They would also be entitled to social and psychological counselling and a cultural orientation course. This follows from an amendment to the Asylum Act signed by President Zuzana Caputova. TASR was informed about this by her spokesman Martin Strižinec.
The new legislation also introduces a monthly allowance for persons with international protection in the amount of 1.75 times the minimum subsistence level, which they could draw for six months.
Priority is also to be given to the assessment and granting of subsidiary protection on grounds of serious injustice over the granting of asylum for the purpose of family reunification, as well as the granting of asylum on humanitarian grounds. The so-called long-stay pass is also to be introduced, which is a period of time for which the applicant is allowed to stay outside a residence camp.
