2018 searched significantly less people protection in Germany: According to interior Minister Seehofer, it was 162.000. Thus, the value was in the coalition agreement agreed upper limit.

At the peak of the refugee crisis, the number of asylum applications in 2016 reached a peak value of 722.000 people. At the time, many of the 2015 arrived refugees submitted your application. Meanwhile, significantly less people are looking for protection in Germany. This is one of the asylum report of the Federal government.

in 2017, the number of first asylum applications, therefore, to 198.000. In the past year, approximately 162.000 asylum were provided for in the initial applications, another 18 percent less. This is the right size for the evaluation of the asylum immigration, said the Federal interior Minister Horst Seehofer. It would add approximately 23,000 follow-up applications. Many of the recent asylum applications were submitted by Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians.

Since the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, the number of first-time applications for asylum in Germany continuously decreased.

Figures in the context of the top border

This is a “continuous decline from the autumn of 2015”, the asylum numbers to watch, said Seehofer. The measures taken showed “quite the desired effect”. The policy had sorted things over the last few years, he said.

especially in the case of the net migration, i.e., after the deduction of returns and cases of voluntary return, we would have the Numbers clearly in the coalition agreement of the CDU and the SPD agreed to limit the immigration of refugees, which was set to a year of 180,000 to 220,000. In this corridor there are also shots to be counted for humanitarian reasons, and through Resettlement programmes, as well as the people who come through family reunification to Germany.