Germany's top immigration officer anticipates 300,000 refugees in 2016

Germany's federal immigration office is ready to accept at most 300,000 refugees in 2016, its head told local media on Sunday.

"We anticipate 0.25 million to 0.3 million refugees this year," Frank-Juergen Weise, head of the federal office for immigration and refugees, told the newspaper Bild, saying more refugees than the upper limit could make them "under stress".

However, Weise emphasized that the formal forecast should be made by the federal interior ministry.

Weise also said the number of refugees coming to Germany last year is definitely less than one million, because many of the them have double registered. Enditem