Number of Georgian asylum seekers in Germany decreased by almost 27%
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The number of Georgian asylum seekers has been decreased in Germany by 26.5 per cent, officials figures read.
The German migration service reports that 1,628 Georgian nationals requested asylum in Germany between January and March of 2019, while the figure stood at 2,215 in the same period of the last year.
3,462 Georgians requested asylum in Germany in 2017. The figure was 4,265 in 2018.
The German parliament declared Georgia as a safe country last year, which means that no one is politically prosecuted in Georgia and chances are very low for Georgians to receive an asylum in Germany.
The Georgian government provided restrictions last year to combat the illegal migration of Georgians to the EU to preserve the EU-Georgia visa free deal signed in 2017.
The German Bundestag has declared Georgia a safe country on January 18, meaning that Georgians will not be eligible to seek asylum in Germany.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said the government has made a particular plan in order to reduce the number of Georgian asylum seekers in Europe and avoid activation of the visa-free travel suspension mechanism.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Deutsche Welle that Germany intends to add Georgia and Armenia to the list of safe countries, which means that no one from those countries will receive asylum in Germany.According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees of Germany, 3,462 citizens of Georgia and 3,857 citizens of Armenia applied for asylum in Germany last year.
The federal government of Germany has approved a bill initiated by the German Interior Ministry, which supports putting Georgia on the safe country list.
The number of Georgian asylum seekers in Germany has decreased 20 per cent, official figures from the German migration agency read.
The number of Georgian asylum seekers in Denmark has decreased three times compared to last year, Danish Immigration Service reports.
2,163 Georgian citizens have requested asylum in Germany between January and August 2021, making for a total five percent of applications, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) says.
Georgian citizens have submitted 14,970 asylum requests to European Union member states and Schengen Area countries, an increase of 68 percent compared to 2021, the latest report of the European Union Agency for Asylum shows.