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- In 2023, 30,223 people applied for asylum in Switzerland.
- That is 5712 or 23.3 percent more than in 2022.
The most important country of origin for asylum seekers in 2023 was once again Afghanistan with 7,934 applications, as the State Secretariat for Migration writes in a statement. Of these, 151 can be attributed to family reunifications, 341 to births and 1,197 to multiple requests. This means that 6,245 primary requests from people of Afghan origin were recorded.
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In its most likely scenario, the SEM expects around 30,000 new asylum applications for 2024.
Keystone/PABLO GIANINAZZI
Other important countries of origin in 2023 were Turkey (5,675 primary and 1,147 secondary applications), Eritrea (705 primary and 1,404 secondary applications), Algeria (1,781 primary and 29 secondary applications) and Morocco (1,596 primary and 10 secondary applications).
In 2023, the SEM processed 26,667 asylum applications in the first instance. 5,991 people received asylum, the asylum grant rate was 25.7 percent (2022: 30.6 percent). The protection rate (proportion of asylum granted plus provisional admissions based on first-instance decisions) was 54.4 percent (compared to 59.0 percent in 2022). The number of cases pending in the first instance increased by 3,328 to 15,567 compared to the previous year.
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