To this day, no one knows how many refugees from Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany. The lack of a database makes it difficult to agree on a fair distribution.
Six weeks after the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) registered around 104,000 Ukrainian nationals as seeking protection.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said on Thursday that these refugees had all been processed by the identification service. In addition, there are around 5,000 registered Ukraine refugees of other nationalities who were counted between March 15 and April 6.
According to the information, around 370,000 Ukrainian nationals have been registered in the Bamf distribution system since the beginning of the war on February 24. These are cases in which Ukrainians turned to German authorities, for example to obtain accommodation or other support. “Since biometrics-based registration usually only takes place at the destination, and multiple entries in the distribution system cannot be ruled out, this number is higher than that of registered refugees,” explained the spokeswoman.
Federal police count 3,000 refugees a day
The federal police are currently detecting the entry of around 3,000 people from Ukraine every day. As the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced on Twitter, 316,453 refugees from Ukraine have been recorded by the federal police since the beginning of the war.
After the number of new arrivals in March had exceeded 15,000 people per day in some cases, significantly fewer refugees are now arriving.
However, Ukrainians can enter the country without a visa, so the number of war refugees who have sought protection in Germany is actually higher. The onward journey to other EU countries is also usually not documented, as there are no fixed border controls at the internal borders.
By Wednesday, the federal police had identified 313,209 refugees from Ukraine. According to participants in a meeting, the members of the Bundestag’s interior committee learned on Wednesday that almost 300,000 of the people identified by the federal police are Ukrainians, many of whom have biometric passports.
Many of the people of other nationalities had been in Ukraine as students. Very few people entering the country did not present a passport or presented a forged document. In such cases, a decision is then made on the basis of appearances as to whether an expellee characteristic is plausible or not. In one case, a larger group with Ukrainian papers, which the federal police had searched, was noticed. Hungarian papers were then brought to light. Several dozen people were then rejected.
Source: Stern
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