This mass migration is being caused by a number of factors, including economic deterioration, rising living expenses, and improved human rights violations. EU Helpers reports that these factors are also playing a role in the problem that is developing.
According to data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Afghanistan ranked third with 45,955 applications overall, of whom 43,958 were first-time applicants. Closely behind, Iraq accounted for 10,477 applications in total, of which 9,484 were first applications.
It documented 286,638 asylum requests in Germany between January and October 2023, including original (267,384) and follow-up (19,254) filings. The same source claims that this is an increase of 67.5 percent over the same period last year, when 159,669 first applications were submitted.
According to this data, 19,506 applications in 2023 were submitted by German-born infants who were younger than a year old.
Over the course of these 10 months, the Federal Office completed 216,603 asylum procedures, yielding a 51.9 percent protection rate overall. Of these rulings, 48,737 involved the denial of applications, while 55,368 involved alternative settlements, like Dublin processes or cessation because asylum claims were withdrawn.
Additionally, the overall processing timetable for both initial and follow-up applications throughout the federal territory averaged 6.7 months. The annual procedural period, which encompasses all judgments made in the previous 12 months, averaged 4.2 months, according to BAMF statistics as well.
The BAMF has received 33,513 asylum petitions in the past month. The majority of these, 31,887, were first applications, and 1,626 were follow-up applications. Consequently, the number of initial asylum applications increased significantly by 14.3% over the previous month.
The Federal Office made determinations regarding 22,998 people's asylum claims within the same month. This represented a marginal rise over the 22,303 applications decided in the previous month and a more significant increase than the 18,994 applications decided in the preceding month.
According to prior Schengen Statistics, Chinese citizens applied for visas with a total of 927,604 between 2018 and 2022. This is 5.06 percent fewer than the second-highest number of applicants, Turks, who filed 882,903 applications. The number of applications for Chinese visas peaked in 2018 at 437,462, but it then steadily declined in the following years, reaching a low point in 2021 with just 4,973 applications.