More applications for family reunification than asylum seekers in themselves – diepresse.com

The government wants Stop family reunions of asylum seekers. It is still open whether this will be legally successful, but it is clear that a considerable part of the asylum applications are now based on moving family and newborn children of asylum entitlements.

As can be seen from the inner departments, the Interior Minister Gerhard Karner in Answering a parliamentary request from the Greens announced in the previous year 8234 application applications for family reunification were made. In most of them, namely 7420, the ministry has created a positive probability forecast. The applications are mostly children. 2849 were between zero and six years old, 2101 between seven and 13 and further 692 to 17 years old.

In addition, there are 3399 positive asylum notices of « post -born » children, i.e. those whose parents already have a positive asylum notice. In both cases, there are a majority of Syrian citizens: the applications for family reunification make up 83 percent, 59 percent for those who are born.

For comparison, the number of asylums: In the previous year there were a total of 25,360 asylum applications in Austria. Of these, only 10,311 were « original » applications, i.e. those of refugees who came to Austria for the first time. Family reunification and post -born children were more important in terms of numbers. The trend of the lower original asylum applications continues: in the first few months of this year there were around 500 such applications every month.

Family reunification also goes back. In January, 5694 applications were still open. The chances of positive completion are currently rather low. According to Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz from the Association of Asylum Coordination, this is less due to the announced stop of the follow-up, but to the disclosure procedure for Syrian asylum entitlements initiated by the Interior Ministry. Although they would not lead to actual discretion of asylum status, they would currently not make it impossible to follow the follow -up of family members.

165,000 euros for DNA tests

Two measures announced in the previous year are likely to play a less large role. It is not known whether the DNA tests for children have led to the detection of fraudulent intentions and the dismissal of applications; the Ministry of the Interior has not yet published such things. It is known that the interior department has reimbursed the costs for DNA tests in 119 cases-in total, 165,000 euros had to be spent on this. There is a reimbursement when the DNA test confirms a kinship relationship.

The Interior Minister is not very happy to provide information in the second measure announced last year, the research of fake documents. For this purpose, document consultants of the ministry were used at selected locations. The minister cannot say how many false documents you have found. Such statistics would not be managed.

ECJ decision without consequences

Incidentally, no “pull factor” formed the Decision of the ECJaccording to which Afghan women generally receive protection. The number of applications has remained stable, only the follow -up applications have increased – i.e. applications from women who only received subsidiary protection at the first attempt and now want asylum due to the new legal situation.