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The number of applicants from Turkey rose the most last year: 61,181 initial applications represent an increase of 156 percent. This makes the citizens of the Bosphorus state the second largest group, ahead of the Afghans with 51,275 (an increase of 41 percent), wrote the website “Die Welt” on Monday.
Syria is the number one country
With 102,930 asylum applications, Syrians will again be the largest group in 2023, as they have been for many years. Last year, 45 percent more Syrians arrived than the previous year and also significantly more than in 2017 (49,000), 2018 (44,000), 2019 (39,000), 2020 (36,000) and 2021 (55,000).
Although almost all people from this country, in which there is a civil war, have already found protection in one of the safe neighboring countries before entering Germany, most of them without permission, the current situation in the area of asylum law means that with a few exceptions they also receive protection in Germany a title of protection.
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To illustrate: About the same number of asylum seekers came to Germany from distant Syria in 2023 as from the former Yugoslavia in the previous record year of 1992, when war was raging in the immediate European neighborhood.
Syrians, who make up 31 percent of all initial approval applications, and Turks at 19 percent, followed by Afghans at 16 percent. These three nationalities account for around two thirds – namely 215,386 – of all initial applications submitted in 2023.
They are followed by Iraqis (11,152), Iranians (9,384), Georgians (8,414), citizens of the Russian Federation (7,663), Somalis (5,301) and Eritreans (4,116). Tenth place in the list of “major nationalities” is occupied by a group for which the evidence for this nationality is so weak that it cannot yet be assigned to a group: 4060 belongs to the “undetermined” category.
Germany generally accepts applicants
As soon as migrants enter Germany, they can assert legal rights to social benefits, which, if recognized, usually lead to a permanent residence permit three to five years after entry and ultimately to naturalization after six to eight years. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government wants to significantly shorten these deadlines with its citizenship reform, which the Bundestag is expected to approve in January.
Although the BAMF is the largest asylum office in the world (its number of employees has quadrupled from around two thousand to around eight thousand in the last ten years) and around a million refugees from Ukraine do not have to go through the asylum procedure, there is no asylum procedure there. It still exists a significant backlog of applications. As of December 31, 2023, the BAMF has not yet decided on the asylum procedure for 239,614 applicants.
Of the 262,000 applications decided in 2023, refugee protection was granted in 43,000 cases – including 1,824 asylum applications that were recognized under the Basic Law, i.e. the German constitution. It is only granted to those who have not previously stayed in a safe country, i.e. who have arrived by air from the country of persecution.
Another 71,000 received supplementary protection for people not persecuted but at risk of war, and 21,000 received protection from displacement. This applies, for example, to seriously ill people or single women with many children who are threatened with famine in their country of origin.
According to the BAMF, around 52 percent of them received a positive decision. This means that the level of protection in 2023 will be higher than in most previous years. One of the reasons for the relatively high recognition rate is the high proportion of Syrians and Afghans, who, according to current decision-making practice, almost always receive a certain level of protection.
In contrast, Turks have only a low level of popularity at 13 percent.
The number of asylum applications in Germany has increased. By the end of November, over 300,000 people had applied
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