One-Third of Rejected Asylum Applications in Germany Successful at Appealing
The rejected applications succeeded after their appeal was examined by administrative courts, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.
According to local media reports, this can cost taxpayers in Germany more than 25 million euros yearly.
One in three negative decisions for asylum applications handed down by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) end up being revised after initial court appeals, which led to considerable costs for the BAMF.
Based on the report of InfoMigrants, in the past five years, the total costs experienced for such lost asylum cases have been varying yearly between €16 and 25 million.
The number of first-time applications marked a notable increase this year. In addition, according to the figures provided by the European Statistical Office, Eurostat, there were a total of 52,865 first-time applications for international protection registered in the EU Member States this January, marking a 69 per cent increase compared to the statistics of the same period one year earlier.
Besides, the report revealed that a total of 15,835 first-time applications were registered in Germany alone in January this year, accounting for a total of 30 per cent of all-first time applications in EU countries.
Eurostat’s data revealed that besides Germany, the following European countries received a high number of first-time international protection applications: France (9,985), Spain (7,675), Italy (4,340), and Austria (3,175).
The figures above show that these five EU Member States together account for more than three-quarters of 78 per cent of all first-time applications filed in EU countries.
Recently, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) announced that a total of 44,135 first-time international protection requests were submitted to authorities in Germany up to this point, while a total of 14,135 or 31 per cent of them were filed in March alone.
Such figures show that the number of people seeking asylum in Germany rose by 12.9 per cent so far this year, according to BAMF.
Based on a previous report published by BAMF, the total number of first-time asylum applications registered in the first quarter of this year was 51,589. Of the total, 44,902 were first-time applications and 6,691 subsequent applications.
