Wednesday, October 19, 2016

forecast: 8.250 influxes of asylum seekers next year – Aftenposten

the Forecast is thus more than twice as high as the last estimate, the Norwegian directorate of Immigration (UDI) has come up with for 2016, writes VG. UDI think it will come 3.550 asylum seekers to the country in the current year.

the Pressure on Europe is high. The situation has not gotten better in Syria, in Eritrea, there are no changes, and it is not better in Afghanistan or Iraq either. The situation for the refugees in Turkey or Lebanon is not better, ” says Marie Hesselberg, who is the division for statistics and analysis in the UDI. Together with the Norwegian immigration appeals board (UNE) and the police creates the directorate forecasts for the asyltilstrømmingen to the country.

For the time is the number of new asylum seekers to the lowest since 1997, while there came over 31.000 asylum seekers in the last year. Border controls in Europe is to keep the number down this year, but if these controls are repealed, the number of asylum seekers rise again.

It will not mean that we are on the same level as last year, but it will affect, says the head of department Alexander Åsheim in the UDI. The EUROPEAN union has a goal of border controls in the Schengen area should be gone again by the end of the year. (NTB)

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