2023-12-17 06:36:33
The decline in asylum applications compared to the previous year increased towards the end of the year. According to figures from the Interior Ministry, 2,537 asylum applications were made in Austria in November. This is the month with the lowest number of applications this year and a decrease of a good 9,400 applications compared to November 2023.
A total of 56,178 asylum applications were submitted in the first eleven months of this year, a decrease of 47 percent. What is striking is that there is still a high number of people who have “evaded the process” – usually refugees who actually had other destination countries when they were apprehended and later traveled on to them. By November there were a good 28,700 people, which accounts for more than half of the applications.
Asylum was granted in a total of 15,215 cases by the end of November. By far the largest refugee group are Syrians, with almost 20,000 applications this year.
By the end of November, a total of 11,551 deportations had been carried out. Of these, 6,088 ordered departures took place independently, 4,463 people were forcibly deported, with a large proportion of those who have to leave the country being EU citizens. Up to and including November, 1,867 age assessments were carried out on asylum applicants. According to the Interior Ministry, these showed that 57.8 percent had provided false information and were already of age.
The number of arrests in Burgenland has fallen sharply since the end of October. In the entire month of November, only 84 people were caught in Burgenland. According to the Interior Ministry, this trend has continued in December. Rigorous measures on the Serbian-Bulgarian and Hungarian-Serbian borders are just as crucial as a route shift towards Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and further towards Italy.
The fact that Austria, contrary to the European trend, is showing a decline in asylum procedures is attributed in the interior department to, among other things, consistent border point and border area controls in Austria. In addition, the fight against smuggling is already taking place on routes abroad, also supported by Austrian police officers.
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