Photo: DPAGerman media on Wednesday reported that immigration officials have found errors in at least 100 asylum decisions so far amid an ongoing review sparked by a German soldier creating a fake Syrian identity. According to the reports by Bild and BZ, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is currently re-examining asylum decisions after a German soldier who allegedly plotted a far-right terror attack managed to obtain asylum through a fake Syrian identity. Immigration officials have so far reviewed about 1,000 out of 2,000 chosen cases of registered Syrian and Afghan men who travelled alone to Germany without passports. Of the 1,000 cases checked so far, 10 to 15 percent of them had errors, the newspapers report. The case of the German soldier gaining asylum has sparked outcry and fed scepticism about the country’s ability to process the record number of asylum seekers arriving in recent years.

Source: The Local May 17, 2017 08:48 UTC