Asylum: the Court of Auditors criticizes the soaring costs – Les Echos

According to a report of the Court of Auditors, revealed Monday by Le Figaro, asylum policy in France would be “to embolism edge ‘and n’ is “not sustainable in the short term.” Each asylum seeker “cost” more than 13,000 euros.

Officially there is only a “statement of preliminary observations”, “a sort of report step “but the Court of Auditors paper on asylum policy of France that Le Figaro published Monday is alarming.

According to the document of 113 pages, revealed two days before the start Wednesday the review by the Law Committee of the Senate of a bill reforming the right of asylum, denounces indeed a French policy “on the brink of embolism” and who is “not sustainable in the short term.”

And to state that “asylum policy has become the main source of illegal immigrants arriving in France. “

The advanced report” up the asylum until 2013 to reach 66,251 cases filed ” , the “procedural deadlines are approximately two years” and “a concentration of applications in certain areas, particularly the Ile-de-France.”

13 724 euros per applicant

The Court of Auditors has calculated the” total expenditure for asylum seekers “and concludes with an increase of 60% in five years “for asylum seekers, the overall cost would amount to 990 million euros in 2013, against € 626 million in 2009,” at a cost of 13,724 euros per applicant

For unsuccessful, the amount of spending “would be equivalent to the one on asylum seekers”, ie one billion euros per year and an average cost per dismissed “up to 5,528 euros” . These calculations results in a total bill of € 2 billion a year, “twice the estimates previously granted by autotités” says Le Figaro.

The majority of rejected remain in France

The Court also notes that” despite the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) which is notified to them, only 1% of the are actually far failed. ” The majority of failed “stay illegally in France.”

The Court of Auditors document issues “interim recommendations”. It recommends in particular to “reduce the monthly allowances paid to asylum seekers,” to set up a “one-stop” file processing and “perform the obligations to leave French territory for the negative cases.”