2024-10-19 07:34:00
Three quarters of the year is over and there are signs of a sharp decline in the number of asylum applications for 2024 as a whole. Up to and including September, 18,816 applications were submitted. That is a good 25,000 fewer than in the first nine months of 2023, which corresponds to a decline of 57 percent. This is much stronger than in Europe as a whole, where the numbers only fell by eight percent.
In Austria, the decline has increased in recent months. In September it was 78 percent, the highest value in 2024.
Most recently, almost two thirds of asylum seekers were men. In the spring the ratio between the sexes was still almost equal. The main reason for this development is that family reunification has returned to normal levels. While almost 1,300 entries took place under this title in March, there were only 180 in September.
As the numbers decrease, the need for places in primary care also decreases. At the beginning of October, 71,900 people were cared for here. Last year there were almost 93,000. 52 percent of those receiving basic care come from Ukraine. The second strongest nation is Syrians with 24 percent.
Citizens of this country also dominate the asylum statistics. The almost 11,000 applications from Syrians this year are more than five times the number of applications from Afghans, who represent the second largest group of asylum seekers.
Even though the number of asylum seekers is declining this year, Austria has accepted a very large number of refugees over the past decade. Around 215,000 people have been granted protection since 2015. This year, 13,900 asylum applications were approved. In addition, subsidiary protection was granted in 6,038 cases and 1,076 humanitarian residence permits were issued. Syrians and Iranians had particularly good chances of receiving asylum, with recognition rates of over 70 percent.
Of the 9,983 deportations carried out by the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum by the end of September, 51 percent were forcible. Around 45 percent of the people involved in deportations have criminal convictions. 903 of the deportations were Dublin cases, i.e. asylum seekers whose applications another EU state is responsible for – of which 190 were Syrians, 85 Algerians and 80 Russian citizens.
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