A view of the Federal Asylum Centre in Zurich.
Keystone/Christian Beutler
The 24-hour process for asylum functions from North African international locations with no prospect of success on the Federal Asylum Centre in Zurich has proved its value, in response to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).
Functions from these international locations fell by 40% within the first half of the yr for the reason that process was launched. Because the finish of April, the federal authorities has been making use of the accelerated process nationwide.
The acceptance price for functions from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya is round 1%. The 24-hour process ensures that these folks, who within the overwhelming majority of circumstances have to depart Switzerland, don’t place an pointless burden on the nation, because the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) introduced on Friday.
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Since November 2023, most asylum functions from these international locations have been processed on the Federal Asylum Centre in Zurich. In accordance with the SEM, this centre has seen a lower of 62%. Throughout all federal asylum centres, asylum functions from the three Maghreb states and Libya fell by 40%.
Between November and April, 413 folks from these 4 international locations of origin utilized for asylum on the centre in Zurich. The SEM didn’t reply to 102 as a result of one other Dublin-Regulation nation was accountable.
It wrote off 185 functions as a result of the asylum seekers left the centre or didn’t cooperate. In 98 of those write-offs, it ordered elimination to a different Dublin-Regulation nation. An additional 31 functions have been rejected. No asylum requests have been granted.
Higher movement of data on crime
The federal authorities and the cantons stepped up their cooperation in coping with the issues of a small variety of extremely energetic offenders within the asylum system, the SEM added. They envisage an improved movement of data and roundtables.
The SEM is just not proscribing entry to the federal asylum centres at weekends. Different measures are supposed to stop abuse of the lodging centres.
Up to now, asylum seekers have often registered at federal asylum centres at weekends and left with out having their fingerprints taken and thus formally initiating the asylum process, the SEM wrote. Nonetheless, proscribing entry at weekends could be tough to implement, as entry for weak folks should be assured.
On-call service for weak folks
The SEM is subsequently wanting into an on-call organisation in particular person centres. Their staff would take fingerprints and test entry authorisation. They’d flip away folks whose asylum software is already being processed in different centres, has been accomplished or has been written off within the final 5 years.
Moreover, asylum seekers from international locations with a really low acceptance price won’t must justify their functions in writing upfront. The SEM defined this resolution by pointing to to the most important authorized and sensible difficulties concerned. It’s wanting into options with the cantons.
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