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The State Agency for Refugees with the Council of Ministers (SAR) is a budget-supported legal entity, having its seat in Sofia and operating through its territorial units, located in the South-Eastern Bulgaria. The regional units of SAR include the transit, the registration-and-acceptance, and the integration centres.

SAR performs the necessary care in reception centers to provide international protection; grants refugee or humanitarian status, applies measures for adaptation of foreigners until granting of protection, aiming at their more rapid integration in society.

The Agency is headed by a chairperson who is a body of the executive entrusted with special competence. The chairperson provides guidance, coordination and control on the implementation of the state policy for granting asylum and humanitarian status to foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria. In the  performance  of his/her  activities,  the Chairperson  of  the State  Agency  for Refugees is assisted by two deputy chairpersons. The total number of the Agency's employees is 420.

History
The National Bureau for Territorial Asylum and Refugees was created November, 1st 1992.

In 1999, the Agency for Refugees was established under the Council of Ministers.

Since 2002 the entity is known as State Agency for Refugees with the Council of Ministers.

Administration
As of March 17, 2016, the Chairperson of the State Agency for Refugees is Petya Parvanova, and currently the Deputy Chairpersons are Daniel Indzhiev and Lilyana Stankova-Proycheva.

Chairpersons

 * Petya Parvanova - currently chairing SAR
 * Nikolay Chirpanliev – October 2013 – December 29, 2014
 * Nikola Kazakov – 2010 – October 2013; January 2015 - February 22, 2016.
 * Svetoslav Michev 2006 - 2010
 * Boyko Antonov 1999 - 2006
 * Ivan Nikolov 1993 - 1999

Centers for accommodation of asylum seekers
The agency has four territorial units:


 * Registration and reception center (RRC) Banya, Nova Zagora County;
 * Registration and reception center (RRC) Sofia: - Ovcha kupel - Vrazhdebna  - Voenna rampa  - Premises of enclosed type (PET) Busmantsi
 * Registration and reception center (RRC) Harmanli, city of Harmanli
 * Transit center (TC) Pastrogor, Svilengrad county;