The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) received 5,247 asylum applications from people from Afghanistan in the first half of this year.
The overall protection rate for Afghans in Germany is around 40% this year.
After the exclusion of so-called “formal decisions”, taken for example because another EU country is responsible for asylum claims, the actual protection rate for Afghan asylum seekers in Germany is 63.6%.
Since the beginning of this year, more than 200 men have been deported from Germany to Afghanistan, and two of them have been returned to Germany: «The first was a criminal refused to receive the Afghan authorities; He was shown to the doctor in Germany again, according to the German Interior Ministry, and was deported to Kabul again a few weeks later.
In the second case, after the plane landed, he was identified as an Iranian national and was returned to Germany by the Federal Police as a matter of principle.
A criminal who was deported from Hamburg to Afghanistan in July 2018 committed suicide shortly after his return in Kabul.
• Since the beginning of this year, more than 200 men have been deported from Germany to Afghanistan, and two of them have been returned to Germany.