The number of asylum seekers remained low
A total of 994 first asylum applications were submitted between January and October 2021. The number of new asylum seekers has remained at the same level as last year. Between January and October 2020, a total of 1,109 first asylum applications were submitted.
‘We are keeping a close eye on the situation in Belarus, but it has not yet caused an increase in the number of asylum seekers in Finland,’ says Antti Lehtinen, director of the asylum unit.
Most of the asylum applications were submitted by people from Afghanistan and Turkey.
‘Afghanistan is the largest country of origin. 196 citizens of Afghanistan have submitted an application. This number includes the 85 asylum seekers that arrived on the evacuation flights, and the 32 vulnerable asylum seekers who were transferred from the Mediterranean countries based on the Government decision issued in 2020. The new developments in the situation in Afghanistan have not led to any other increases in the number of asylum seekers,’ says Lehtinen.
The 227 Afghanistan citizens evacuated to Finland based on a Government decision are not included in the asylum statistics. The evacuated persons have been granted residence permits with a Government decision on providing humanitarian protection, which means they are not asylum seekers. A total of 85 asylum seekers also arrived in Finland on the evacuation flights from Afghanistan. The majority are family members of persons who received consular protection.
Number of subsequent applications decreasing
This year, a total of 2,021 asylum applications were submitted between January and October. Last year, a total of 2,796 asylum applications were submitted between January and October. This number includes both first asylum applications and subsequent applications.
This year, a total of 1,027 subsequent applications have been submitted (January-October 2020: 1,687). A subsequent application is an asylum application that a client submits after receiving a final decision from the Finnish Immigration Service or an administrative court on an application they have submitted previously. If an asylum seeker leaves Finland for an extended period between submitting applications, the new application is not considered to be a subsequent application. The largest share of subsequent applications this year has been submitted by people with Iraq citizenship.
‘The number of subsequent applications has been decreasing. The developments in the situation in Afghanistan have not yet resulted in an increase in the number of subsequent applications,’ says Lehtinen.
Statistics on applications and decisions can be found in the statistical service of the Finnish Immigration service.
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