This research report has been published as part of the EU Horizon 2020 VULNER research project (www. vulner.eu). The VULNER research project’s objective is to reach a more profound understanding of the ex- periences of vulnerabilities of migrants applying for asylum and other humanitarian protection statuses, and how they could best be addressed. It therefore makes use of a twofold analysis, which confronts the study of existing legal and bureaucratic norms and practices that seek to assess and address vulnerabili- ties among migrants seeking protection, with migrants’ own experiences. Creating a framework to allow protection seekers to highlight their reality and experiences in their own words, and include the insights of associations and lawyers specialised in the asylum and migration fields, can shed greater light on how and to what extent an asylum procedure can accommodate those experiences. To that end, the research fieldwork underlying this report on the asylum procedure in Belgium involved interviews ...