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Thu, 12 Nov, 2015 12:07:00 AM FTimes – STT Report, Nov 12  Interior Minister Peter Orphanage.File Photo – Lehtikuva. Interior Minister Petteri Orpo on Wednesday said the country is unable to cope with setting up re-ception centres to meet the huge rush of new asylum seekers.
Interior Ministry on Tuesday announced that the country is preparing to offer tents and shipping containers for accommodation due to the shortage.
“This is temporary, but if the figures remain high, they might even be used longer,” Orpo said on Wednesday during the political journalists’ breakfast session.
Finnish Immigration Service director general Jaana Vuorio told news agency STT that the number of reception centres will drop in the future.
Schools and other massive buildings currently are not available for setting up reception centres, but something might be found in the remote areas, said Vuorio. He, however, pointed out that the area of location is of significance.
“It is not appropriate or justified in terms of safety to place hundreds of asylum seekers in place where there is no police,” Vuorio said.
Currently, the processing time of asylum application is around five months. According to the European Union directive, the time limit for processing an application should not exceed six months.
transferred from Italy to Eritrean asylum-seekers arrived by plane at Kemi-Tornio airport, where they were transported by bus to Tornio facility center on 21 October 2015. File Photo – Str / Lehtikuva. By the end of August approximately 7,000 asylum seekers arrived in the country, and the immigration service had scaled its resources accordingly. However, the September-October period saw over 15,000 new arrivals.
The immigration service has estimated that asylum processing time may take more time in the future.
“Decision-making capacity cannot possibly respond to the number of arrivals, and so it is clear that next year processing time will take more than six months,” said Vuorio.
The number of new asylum seekers began to rise last week. Over 700 new asylum seekers arrived in Tornio. The majority of new arrivals came from Afghanistan.
Currently, the immigration service is updating the security assessment in Afghanistan which should be completed no later than early December.
Orpo said that one reason for the increased number of asylum seekers in the country is due to the fact that the number of asylum seekers is too high in Sweden.
“Sweden should still consider the establishment of reception centres in south of Sweden. Certainly it transfers pressure to Denmark and afterwards Germany, but it is the only way to resolve the situation,” Orpo said.
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