Question NW1587 to the Minister of Home Affairs
02 December 2019 - NW1587
van der Merwe, Ms LL to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
What number of applications by foreign nationals and/or asylum seekers were (a) received in each of the past six years respectively and (b) were processed in each of the specified calendar years?
Reply:
a) The registered new arrivals for the past 6 years are as follows:
|
Year |
Total |
|
2013 |
70 010 |
|
2014 |
71 914 |
|
2015 |
62 159 |
|
2016 |
35 377 |
|
2017 |
24 174 |
|
2018 |
18 354 |
b) The following totals were processed up to first level of adjudication in the past 6 years.
|
2013 |
68 241 |
|
2014 |
75 733 |
|
2015 |
60 640 |
|
2016 |
41 241 |
|
2017 |
27 980 |
|
2018 |
18 104 |
It must be noted that Adjudication is not based on the year of NIIS registration, this will mean that cases not finalized in the year of registration may be processed in subsequent years, this may result in more cases processed up to first level of adjudication than newcomers registered
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