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Austria to reach 2016 asylum application intake limit in Autumn: minister

Xinhua, July 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

Austria is on track to reach its 2016 asylum application limit of 37,500 by Autumn, Minister for the Interior Wolfgang Sobotka said on Tuesday.

He said that 22,135 applications have been approved for processing in the first half of the year. In total 25,691 applications had been made.

Afghan nationals made up the largest number of applicants for the first half of the year, at some 8,000, followed by Syrians at 5,100. The latter however saw by far the highest approval rate for their applications at 89 percent, with Afghans at 23 percent.

Sobotka, who had in the past stood for a stricter application of the limit, was relatively pleased with the present developments, though argued for the coalition government to hold to a stricter approach to asylum applications once the 37,500 limit is reached. Endit