Latest from EU : “Almost 1 million asylum applicants in 2022”

As illegal Channel crossings rise for the fifth year, EU asylum numbers are soaring

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org analyses the EU’s latest asylum figures, doubling in two years

On Thursday (23 Mar 2023) the EU published its latest figures on asylum applications which showed a dramatic increase once again. According to the EU Commission’s official statistics agency there were:

“Almost 1 million asylum applicants in 2022”

The numbers are rapidly approaching those in 2015/2016, when Angela Merkel (without any permission from the EU) unilaterally opened the EU’s borders to millions of migrants.

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The EU’s soaring asylum numbers

EU asylum applications have more than doubled in the last two years to 2022
The increases : +52% in the last year, +104% in the last two years
First-time applications increased by 64% last year
71% of applicants are male
The total number has just exceeded 7.5 million in the last 10 years
There are 3.8m Ukrainians on top of this, making 11.3m in total
The figures are growing exponentially

[Source: EU Commission official statistics agency, Eurostat, 23 Mar 2023.]

The numbers are so large, the Commission has no way of disguising them

The increases are now on such a scale that even the EU Commission hasn’t found a way to disguise them. Here is what their official statistics agency said on Thursday :-

Credit: EU Commission 2023 - click to enlarge

“First-time asylum applicants up 64% in 2022”
“Since [2020] the number has risen, with the 2022 figure reaching almost 1 million applicants (962,160). It exceeded the number of applicants in 2021 by more than half (52.1%) and was the highest since 2016.”
“The number of first-time asylum applicants in the EU in 2022 was 881,220… This latest figure for 2022 marks an increase of 343,865 (or 64.0%) first-time applicants across the EU compared with the year before (537 355) and is the highest since the peaks of 2015 and 2016.”
Eurostat, 23 Mar 2023

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Where have they all come from?

The origin of all these migrants may surprise some readers. Almost half (46%) of the first-time asylum applicants in 2022 had Asian citizenship. 22% were from Africa, 17% from non-EU Europe, and 14% were from Central or South America.

In terms of specific countries of origin, the top five are: Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Turkey and Colombia.

None of these figures include the four million Ukrainians

In 2022, the EU members granted 4,331,200 temporary protection statuses to non-EU citizens fleeing Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion. By the end of the year 3,826,600 remained and were benefiting from temporary protection in the EU.

This takes the total number of asylum and protection applicants to 11,393,935 and 4.8 million of these relate just to last year (2022) alone.

Observations

For the sixth year running, the number of illegal migrants entering the UK is breaking records. 100% of these are the EU’s migrants. They have all entered the EU and in most cases have travelled across many (safe) EU countries before reaching the northern French coast.

With the Rishi Sunak government having just caved in to the EU once again over Northern Ireland, giving it de facto permanent EU colony status, it might have been thought that the PM might at least have insisted that the EU take back its illegal migrants as part of the deal.

Sadly it seems this is not the case. The Home Secretary is apparently still negotiating with the foreign court of the ECHR for the right to deport the EU’s migrants to Rwanda, at the UK’s expense.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sun 26 Mar 2023

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Reader Comments 9

1. Sparky , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 08:04:

Sensationalist headlines straight out of the Brexit campaign handbook.
1 million is a massive number but represents 0.22% of the EU population.
Immigration was a key reason for Brexit, the UK had 89,000 asylum seekers in 2022, 1.3% of the UK population. Under the Dublin III regulation the UK could return immigrants to the EU but Johnson (slang version) didn't include this in his "Get Brexit Done" deal. At least Johnson is now done!
Interesting headlines in the Express this morning about the state of the UK fishing industry. Stuffed by Brexit.

2. Sue , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 08:29:

Oh sparky you really do provide amusement don't you? Firstly 89,000 is 0.13% of the uk population not 1.3%. Did you learn maths in Brussels? Secondly the total number of asylum and temporary protection seekers in the EU in 2022 was 4.8 million as facts4eu said. This makes the EU's percentage 1.1% of the total population. To save you trying to do the maths that's 8 times higher.

3. Catherine Macd , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 09:32:

@1 Sparky. Please provide the UK returns numbers under the Dublin convention you incorrectly named. I think you might get a surprise.

4. jon livesey , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 16:17:

1. Sparky , "Under the Dublin III regulation the UK could return immigrants to the EU" Here is the reality "Even more strikingly, the Dublin Regulation inflow to the UK in the year 2018 was nearly six times the outflow. As the Home Office noted in February 2019: "There were 1,215 transfers into the UK under the Dublin Regulation. The majority (946) of these transfers came from Greece. There were just 209 transfers out of the UK under the Dublin Regulation. A quarter of these (51) were transfers to France." Migration Watch. (2019)
Dublin III was being used to transfer migrants *to* the UK, not *from* the UK.
Funny how often Buster's claims don't check out when you try to verify them, isn't it?

5. LuxuryBalloon , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 17:30:

We want the EU to deal with all the refugees from the Ukrainian war … we don’t want them.

6. Gazzablack , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 19:48:

5,
Who's this 'we' paleface?

7. Just Maybe , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 20:25:

Mostly from Syria & Afghanistan. Well, maybe if America, UK & Europe had not waged war there for years on end, then no one would be fleeing their homes.

8. Gazzablack , Sunday, March 26, 2023, 21:31:

7, Just Maybe
Except they're not mostly from those countries, nor did 'America, UK and Europe' make war in Syria.
.
Roughly a third of channel crossings are by a combination of Albanians and Iranians.
(Places that have NOT been the locations of Western military action)
.
Migrants that cross the Channel destroy their passports, and they do so for two reasons.
1, Without proof of origin they cannot be returned to their home countries.
2, Passports would provide evidence that they are not from countries that would qualify them for asylum.
If they were genuine refugees they would make sure they carried the evidence of such.

9. LuxuryBalloon , Monday, March 27, 2023, 06:34:

7. Just Maybe. This article indeed states that most refugees come from Syria and Afghanistan … and these two countries did indeed play a central role in the war against terror.

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