Germany registers 112% jump in asylum applications
- 8 years ago
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The German authorities say a significant rise in the number of asylum applications it is processing is due to a backlog in paperwork.
The country’s Interior Ministry says it dealt with 181,405 applications in the first three months of this year – in increase of 112% on the same period in 2015.
Officials say most of the one million-plus migrants who arrived last year were first registered at shelters on arrival.
There is then a delay of weeks or months before an asylum application is filed.
De Maizière: Zahl der Asylsuchenden in Deutschland sinkt drastisch https://t.co/uuTUiBLGyO pic.twitter.com/C9yqDiMXum— Der SPIEGEL (@DerSPIEGEL) April 8, 2016
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière says the number of requests is going up, because many of those who have been here for a long time are only now applying for asylum.
“The actual number arriving is going down,” he told reporters.
Month-on-month down
Requests for asylum in Germany drop 66% in
The German authorities say a significant rise in the number of asylum applications it is processing is due to a backlog in paperwork.
The country’s Interior Ministry says it dealt with 181,405 applications in the first three months of this year – in increase of 112% on the same period in 2015.
Officials say most of the one million-plus migrants who arrived last year were first registered at shelters on arrival.
There is then a delay of weeks or months before an asylum application is filed.
De Maizière: Zahl der Asylsuchenden in Deutschland sinkt drastisch https://t.co/uuTUiBLGyO pic.twitter.com/C9yqDiMXum— Der SPIEGEL (@DerSPIEGEL) April 8, 2016
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière says the number of requests is going up, because many of those who have been here for a long time are only now applying for asylum.
“The actual number arriving is going down,” he told reporters.
Month-on-month down
Requests for asylum in Germany drop 66% in