Overview

• Roughly 9,100 people filed first-time asylum applications in September, about half the 18,113 recorded a year earlier and modestly above August’s ~7,800 due to seasonal patterns.
• About 10,800 follow-up applications were submitted, with many tied to an ECJ ruling that recognizes Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as persecution.
• The Bundespolizei recorded 47,552 people without valid entry papers from January through September 2025, down sharply from roughly 83,500 in the same period last year.
• Since stationary checks resumed at all nine land borders in September 2024, officers detected nearly 56,000 unauthorized entries and refused or removed more than 37,600 at the border.
• Following a May 7 directive allowing refusals with exceptions for vulnerable groups, officers registered 21,359 unauthorized entries from May 8 and turned back more than 15,600, while officials also cite changes in Syria as a longer-term factor.