The German Federal Government has estimated that ‘family reunion’ rules will see Germany receive hundreds of thousands more Syrian and Iraqi migrants this year, adding to the already arrived 1.5 million Muslim invaders posing as refugees in 2015-2016.
The Ministry of the Interior announced that it granted asylum to 90,389 people in the first six months of 2017, and expects that Germany will receive a total of 180,000 migrants this year – a fraction of the influx of almost a million who the country admitted in 2015.
However, with regards to housing, welfare, education, integration, and crime — will be far more demanding for taxpayers than official figures suggest, as they do not take into account the migrants who are flown into Germany as a result of family reunification rules.
Families, WHAT FAMILIES? All I see are young military age males.
Responding to a request by the German broadsheet, the Federal Foreign Office said it estimates the process will enable an additional 200,000 to 300,000 to travel to the European nation.
DW “Welt am Sonntag” quoted Fabrice Leggeri, who heads the EU’s external border agency Frontex, as saying that “uncontrolled” migrant inflow into Europe “naturally represented a security risk.”
Frontex officials checked whether asylum seekers arrived with fake or stolen papers but their informative value was “very scant” because no one could guarantee that passports from a war-torn land such as Syria were officially issued, Leggeri told the paper.
According to the Foreign Office, the calculation is based on the number of visas which have already been issued, and on how many applications the department expects based on patterns currently seen with regards to average family reunification numbers for Syrian refugees.
Though Germany has now suspended the possibility of family reunification for many newcomers until March 2018, authorities are still overwhelmed by the huge backlog of claims which come as a result of Angela Merkel’s move to open the country’s borders in 2015.
As a result of this, German embassies in Syria and its neighbouring countries reported a “dramatic increase in demand for appointments concerning people applying for family immigration visas”.