194 Asylum Applications Received in October

A total of 194 applications for international protection (asylum) were submitted to the Luxembourg Department of Immigration in October 2017.

This number is slightly higher than the 192 recorded last month, but lower than the figure of 269 from October 2016. To date, the total number of requests for asylum in Luxembourg this year has been 1,938, compared to 1,690 in the first ten months of 2016 (in which the total was 2,035).

The majority of the asylum applications have come from people leaving Eritrea (52) which have been welcomed in Luxembourg from Italy. Up until the end of October, the most applications this year came from people fleeing Syria (311), followed by Morocco (179) and Eritrea (172).