Monday, December 07, 2015

Germany records 964,000 new asylum seekers since Jan

Berlin (AFP) - Germany registered 964,574 new asylum seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting Europe's top economy on track for a million arrivals in 2015, official figures showed Monday.

Some 206,101 migrants arrived in November alone, a new monthly record, up from a previous high of 181,166 in October, according to the interior ministry.

The number of arrivals was four times the total for all of 2014.

Nevertheless, the ministry said the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had managed to shorten the time it takes to process the newcomers from an average of around seven months in 2014 to five months this year .... http://news.yahoo.com