STA, 16 August 2019 - July saw the highest number of illegal crossings of the state border in a month since the 2016 migration wave - more than 1,700. During the first seven months of this year the upward trend in such crossings was steeper than last year, according to police.
In July a total of 1,740 illegal crossings were detected, while the police recorded 7,415 in the first seven months, mostly apprehending illegal migrants from Pakistan, Algeria and Afghanistan.
Related: Foreign Nationals in Slovenia, by Country, Region & Continent
Below you will find the charts with the numbers of illegal border crossings, including the year, citizenship, period, police department and the number of persons handed over to Slovenia from foreign authorities or vice versa.
The charts also feature the number of international protection requests as well as the number of approved requests and the number of asylum seekers by their accommodation so far.
Number of illegal border crossings in the first half of the year by year
year number of crossings ------------------ 2010 339 2011 419 2012 399 2013 660 2014 384 2015 181 2016 273 2017 754 2018 3635 2019* 5568 *up to 31 July Source: Police
Number of illegal border crossings in the first seven months of 2018 and 2019 by citizenship
citizenship number of crossings
2018 2019
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Pakistan 1446 1705
Algeria 643 1153
Afghanistan 482 811
Morocco 250 592
Turkey 106 371
Bangladesh 22 521
Iraq 228 364
Iran 271 368
Syria 432 318
Tunisia 60 141
other 819 1071
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total 4759 7415
Source: Police
Number of processed illegal border crossings in the first seven months of 2018 and 2019 by police department
department number of crossings
2018 2019
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Koper 2032 2807
Novo Mesto 1978 1918
Ljubljana 225 1556
Maribor 355 676
Celje 52 134
Murska Sobota 98 176
other 18 148
Source: Police
Number of illegal border crossings and international protection requests in 2018 and in the first seven months of 2019 by month
number of crossings number of requests month 2018 2019 2018 2019 --------------------------------------------------- January 246 319 172 205 February 210 328 223 216 March 207 1079 129 356 April 644 1381 274 334 May 1286 1298 365 404 June 1040 1270 267 287 July 1114 1740 287 387 August 1152 381 September 999 256 October 1270 201 November 717 170 December 357 150 -------------------------------------------------- total 1-6 3633 7415 1430 2189 Source: Interior Ministry, Police
Number of persons returned to the Slovenian authorities and to foreign authorities in the first seven months of 2018 and 2019
returned to Slovenian returned to foreign authorities authorities country 2018 2019 2018 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------- Italy 193 184 39 55 Austria 15 53 8 8 Croatia 6 15 1715 4827 Hungary 12 1 2 0 airports 94 163 20 18 --------------------------------------------------------------- total 320 416 1784 4908 Source: Police
Number of international protection requests in 2018 and in the first half of 2019 as well as their status
status number
2018 2019
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total number of requests 2875 1802
requests to repeat the procedure 40 13
repeated procedures 27 30
closed cases 2886 1762
approved status 102 40
rejected applications 135 54
halting of procedure 2372 1535
discarded applications 277 133
resettlement 40 0
relocation 21 0
Source: Interior Ministry
Number of asylum seekers and persons with international protection and their accommodation up to today
Asylum seekers
accommodation number ----------------------------------------------- Asylum Centre 182 Kotnikova Street, Ljubljana 79 Logatec 23 dispersed 33 other 29 ------------------------------------------------ total 346
Persons with international protection
accommodation number ----------------------------------------------- Ljubljana Integration House 0 Maribor Integration House 25 Government-approved flats 18 Asylum Centre 1 Kotnikova Street, Ljubljana 1 Logatec 0 Student homes 14 Private accommodation 506 abroad 115 ----------------------------------------------- total 680 Source: The Government Office for the Support and Integration of Migrants
