Reports: Belgium receives more than 2,000 Asylum application in April

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2,324 applications were submitted to the Belgian Immigration Office throughout April, the authorities have revealed.

According to a press release issued by the Office of the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless, about nine people were registered in the framework of resettlement, with the total number of applicants peaking at 2,333. In contrast, the number of decisions reached 5,313.

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Most of these applications were filed by nationals of Afghanistan, Eritrea and Palestine, while other countries to complete the list of ten countries of origin are Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Georgia, Moldavia, Burundi and Cameroon.

As the data shows, Syrians, Afghanis and Eritreans are the top countries of origin for recognition of refugee status in 2022, followed by Palestinians, Turks, Burundians, Somalians, and Guineans, peaking at 6,252 so far this year.

As per decisions, CGRS took a total of 1,063 decisions regarding a total of 1,313 persons. During the same month, the protection rate reached 38.9 percent.

At the end of April 2022, the total workload peaked at 16,929 cases corresponding to 20,200 persons. Because of the current inflow of refugees, a total of 4,200 dossiers can be considered a regular caseload, while the actual backlog amounts to 12,729 cases.

Data further show that the total number of persons who received a decision in April made up 20.1 per cent of all applications filed this year, which is 6,505.

According to data from Statista, the migration balance, which includes immigrants minus emigrants, stood at 41,756 in 2020. This number was 31.7 per cent below 2019 levels when the balance reached 55,031. Data from 2020 is an average of the last decade, whereas the highest rates were in 2020 when those reached 79,446.

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Data from the same source shows that the origin countries are France with a total of 170,324 nationals, the Netherlands with 159,319 and Italy with 155,696. However, the majority come from other countries (487,463).

 

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