137Second, as has been noted in paragraph 80 above, when such an application is made, a third-country national or stateless person acquires the status of applicant for international protection within the meaning of Directive 2013/32. Such an applicant cannot, in principle, be regarded as staying illegally on the territory of the Member State in which he or she submitted his or her application, so long as no decision has been given on that application at first instance (see, to that effect, judgments of 19 June 2018, Gnandi, C‑181/16, EU:C:2018:465, paragraph 40, and of 14 May 2020, Országos Idegenrendézeti Főigazgatóság Dél-alföldi Regionális Igazgatóság, C‑924/19 PPU and C‑925/19 PPU, EU:C:2020:367, paragraph 209 and the case-law cited).
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