It currently takes on average more than ten months to process an individual asylum application - three times as long as previously expected, according to a new government report. The German government had previously said that such processes should last about three months, according to Die Linke (Left Party) politician Ulla Jelpke, whose party submitted the inquiry. Jelpke called the prolonged processing times a “disastrous record”. BAMF blamed the extended processing times on the increasing number of complex old cases that have been piling up. Those from Guinea on average waited 16.1 months, those from Russia 15.2 months, Somalis 14.9 months, and Nigerians 14.4 months.

Source: The Local June 08, 2017 15:11 UTC