Published 31 March 2024 at 13.56
Foreign. During 2023, a record was broken in illegal immigration to the EU – not since the asylum chaos in 2016 has the number of asylum applications from illegally immigrated people been so high.
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More 1,050,000 people applied for asylum for the first time in one of the 27 EU countries in 2023, according to figures from Eurostat that the Europaportal draws attention to.
It is the third highest figure since the data began to be collected in 2008 and new record for the decade.
At the same time, Sweden received a slightly lower number of applications than in 2022, and in 2023 the number of asylum applications was the lowest since the measurements began. Instead, the illegal immigrants now usually set a course for Germany, statistics from Eurostat show.
Relative immigration, however, continues unabated and so-called labor immigration also remained high.
At the turn of the year, Sweden had barely 30,000 open cases of relative immigration, most from Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea. In practice, it is therefore about relatives of individuals who previously came here illegally and were granted asylum.