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Germany, Austria stop processing Syrians’ asylum applications after Assad fall
Syrians are the biggest group of asylum applicants in Austria and Germany, with with 72,420 asylum applications this year in Germany, and 12,871 in Austria.
Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has put all asylum applications from Syrian nationals on hold until further notice after the toppling Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
The head of Bavaria’s conservatives, Markus Soeder, on Monday referred to the BAMF suspension as “the right decision.”
“We even have to consider how a greater number of people can be repatriated to their Syrian homeland,” he said in a news conference.
Austria
Austria’s caretaker government also said on Monday it had ordered a halt to the processing of asylum applications by Syrians after rebels seized Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after 13 years of civil war.
The civil war forced millions of Syrians to flee the country. They were a large proportion of the more than a million people who their way to Germany and neighboring Austria during the European migration crisis of 2015 and 2016.
A public backlash against that influx continues to fuel support for Austria’s far right and conservatives.
“Chancellor Karl Nehammer today instructed Interior Minister Gerhard Karner to suspend all current Syrian asylum applications and to review all cases in which asylum was granted,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Karner added: “I have instructed the Ministry to prepare a program of orderly repatriation and deportation to Syria,” without elaborating on how that could be achieved.
Nehammer said on X on Sunday that the security situation in Syria should be reassessed to allow deportations to resume.
The ministry said it was also suspending family reunification, under which refugees’ families can join them. Syrians are the biggest group of asylum applicants in Austria by far, with 12,871 applications to date this year as of November.
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The Interior Ministry said 12,886 asylum applications by Syrians had yet to be ruled on either in the first or second instance, 1,146 of which were based on family reunification.
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