At the end of August, more than 56,000 asylum applications had been submitted in Austria, almost three times as many as in the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. As in July, the strongest group of asylum seekers in August was Indians, after Syrians and Afghans always topped the rankings in previous years.
As the Ministry of Home Affairs emphasizes, in addition to Indians, especially Pakistanis and North Africans, more and more applications are being submitted by people who come for economic reasons and therefore have no right or chance of asylum. To illustrate: in the first seven months, not a single Indian was granted asylum.
The accelerated asylum procedure takes an average of 25 days
That is why the focus is on accelerated procedures for these nationalities, according to the Interior Department. In the first eight months of 2022, 11,451 such procedures for people from disadvantaged countries of origin were closed negatively. That is a threefold increase compared to 2021. The average duration of such an accelerated procedure is 25 days, but almost 70 percent are decided within three days.
According to the ministry, there was a record number of rejected and rejected asylum applications this year, namely 31,500, which is more than half of the number of asylum applications. 7,000 people left the country. 60 percent of them voluntarily.
90,000 people in basic care, including 58,000 Ukrainians
As far as basic facilities are concerned, the figures for asylum seekers are less high. Although 90,000 people currently use this social network, 58,000 of them are Ukrainians, mostly not asylum seekers. NGOs believe that the difference between applications and places for basic care has to do with the fact that a number of asylum seekers who do not have Austria as their destination country, apply here due to increased investigative efforts, but then travel onward.
Source: Krone
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