The 28 refugees who arrived today are from Syria and Iraq and have come to Slovenia from Greece.

They are asylum seekers who have requested for international protection already in Greece, which is why they are expected to be processed relatively quickly in Slovenia.

According to Head of the Interior Ministry's Directorate for Administrative Interior Affairs, Migration and Naturalization Nina Gregori, procedures should be concluded within a month.

Each applicant will be processed individually and not all of them will necessarily be granted refugee status, but the likelihood of that is rather small, Gregori said.

Initially, they will stay at the Ljubljana asylum centre, but once they get the refugee status, they will be transferred to integration houses in Ljubljana and Maribor, where they will stay for a maximum period of 15 months.

The first three months will be focused on initial integration, which will be carried out by the Slovenian Philanthropy. EUR 480,000 has been earmarked for the programme, with 75% coming from the EU fund. Apart from that, every country gets EUR 6,000 for each refugee it takes in, Gregori explained.

Following the first three months, refugees will be able to rent private housing and get EUR 288 in support towards this, as the Ljubljana and Maribor integration houses currently only have 50 vacancies.

This year and in 2017, Slovenia is to take in a total of 567 refugees who are currently located in Italy (218) and Greece (349). The arrivals are planned in small groups, with the last one expected in September 2017. The first arrival was scheduled for April, but was postponed due to procedural delays.

Slovenia was also expecting ten refugees from Eritrea in April, but is still waiting for the notification from Italy about when they are to come, Gregori added.

Apart from the 567 refugees, Slovenia will also take in 20 people from countries outside the EU who have had refugee status granted there. They will start with integration immediately, but the date of their arrival is not known yet.

Currently, there are also 340 migrants in Slovenia who came to the country with the masses of people mostly transiting between the autumn 2015 and early this year. They are mostly staying in centres in Ljubljana and Postojna.

Since last September, a total of 663 of these people have requested for international protection, with asylum being granted to 13 of them.

Overall, a total of 20 asylum requests have been granted this year. These include requests that were filed before the migration wave started. Five people were granted subsidiary protection.

Those seeking asylum in Slovenia mostly come from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, police data show.