Number of Georgian asylum seekers in Germany down 20%

The number of Georgian asylum seekers in Germany has decreased 20 per cent, official figures from the German migration agency read.

The agency says that they have received 2,111 applications from Georgians requesting asylum between January and June 2019, while the figure stood at 2,640 in the same period of 2018.

In 2018 4,265 Georgian requested asylum in Germany in total, which was 23 per cent more compared to the data of 2017.

The German parliament declared Georgia a safe country last year, which means that nobody is politically persecuted in Georgia and chances are very low for Georgians to receive asylum in the country.

The Georgian government implemented restrictions last year to combat illegal migration of Georgians to the EU to preserve the EU-Georgia visa free deal signed in 2017.