At: 06.07.2018 19:16 Uhr

The "Transitverfahren" should only be used on the border with Austria. The majority of asylum seekers apparently do not cross the border with Bavaria.

By Kristin Becker, SWR

Since 2015, the border with Austria is again checked in Bavaria – at least in places. If you do not have valid entry documents, you will be rejected. Until now, asylum seekers could not be sent back. However, relatively few people wishing to apply for asylum were registered at this border last year

Most asylum seekers apprehended by the federal police and other authorities of control in 2017 were found at airports and in the border area with Switzerland. ] This shows a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a small request from the left, which contains the figures for 2017. According to this figure, 15,414 people have applied for asylum at the German borders or "checks" international traffic "

. 3269 of them arrived from German airports and 3241 from Switzerland. 1740 asylum applications were registered at the border with Austria, 1453 in the border area with France. As a result, most border crossings of asylum seekers were not in Bavaria, but in Baden-Württemberg


"Full checks" for entries from non-Schengen countries

However, most refugees have apparently crossed the border The number of asylum applications lodged in Germany in 2017 is 198,317, according to the BAMF. This means that most of the refugees have not been captured by federal police or other border control authorities.

The only entries that can currently be monitored are those arriving by plane or boat from non-Schengen countries. fact. In these cases, the federal or state police inspect documents from all comers, so proceed to what is called complete checks.

In 2017, according to the federal police, 11,220 people tried to enter Germany illegally. This means that they had no valid papers, visas or entry documents to come to Germany.

"Airport procedure" especially in Frankfurt

For undocumented asylum seekers or from countries of safe origin, the airport procedure applies. However, this is currently only available at five airports – in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt.

In 2017, 444 people went through the airport procedure, mainly in Frankfurt. Only 127 of these cases were actually completed, most of which were rejected.

However, more than half of the airport procedures, 264, were immediately transmitted because the cases were too complex to be treated within the two prescribed days. This means that asylum seekers were not forced to stay at the airport, but were placed for the first time as part of a normal asylum procedure .