Overview

• Average asylum procedure duration fell from 18.5 months in the first half of 2024 to 14.3 months in the same period of 2025
• Ten of the 17 newly authorized judge positions have been filled, and a dedicated Leipzig asylum chamber is slated to open in September
• Two asylum-only chambers in Chemnitz began hearing cases in April, supported by a pilot program deploying two referendare as judge assistants
• An AI-based file-processing assistant and centralized country-information databases have been introduced to speed up judicial preparation
• Saxony is pressing the federal government to adopt expert recommendations and rule changes to lock in efficiency ahead of mid-2026 EU asylum decision deadlines