Number of Georgian asylum seekers in Denmark decrease three times
Denmark awarded Georgia the status of Safe Country of Origin in November 2018. Photo: Visitcopenhagen.com
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The number of Georgian asylum seekers in Denmark has decreased three times compared to last year, Danish Immigration Service reports.
81 applications were submitted by Georgian citizens in January-August this year, while 264 Georgian citizens applied for asylum in Denmark in the same period of 2018.
A total of 402 Georgian citizens applied for asylum in Denmark last year, however none of them received asylum in the country.
Georgia was in third place after Eritrea and Syria at this rate in 2018.
The statistics of Georgian asylum seekers in Denmark by years are as follows:
2014 – 111 applications
2015 – 100 applications
2016 – 73 applications
2017 – 76 applications
2018 – 402 applications
2019 Ian-Aug – 81 applications
Denmark listed Georgia as a safe country in 2018, which means that no one in Georgia is politically persecuted and the country’s citizens have a very low chance of receiving asylum in Denmark.
The number of Georgian asylum seekers decreased in other countries in 2019, including Germany and Iceland.
Georgia granted asylum to 82 foreign citizens during the period of January 1 to December 20 2018, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The number of Georgian asylum seekers in Germany has decreased 10%, Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reports.
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 has been decreased in Germany by 26.5 per cent, officials figures read.
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Citizens’ Protection has decided to put Georgia on the list of safe countries.
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.