Kosovo asylum seekers doubled

19 euros cost the Center for Asylum Seekers one person in one day, while they have more of a training site in Kosovo. Economic conditions are believed to be the reason they flee to other countries. They illegally enter Kosovo, which is criminal, but there is no investigation of them due to international protection.

He's a Pakistani citizen, but he's been staying at the asylum seekers' center in Magure.

The way to Kosovo was not easy, but the situation in the country from which it came, according to him, is terrible.

Under condition of anonymity, he has confessed to Kosovo Press the path he has made here.

In Pakistan it's a problem, my life there is dangerous, there are religious problems in this country, so I've taken this path.

Kosovo, he is exploiting it as a Transit country. His journey is intended to continue during these days to Serbia.

“From here I will now continue in Serbia. Serbia I think is better, as well as people there have the safest life”

Currently, there are seven people in this center, but their numbers vary during the day.

The number of asylum seekers in Kosovo, this year has doubled.

According to Department of State Director Asylum and Migration at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Valon Krasniqi has so far applied for asylum 302 people.

“We can say there's been an increase in asylum seekers this year and I believe over the past year. There was twice as much. For example, during 2017 there have been 147 asylum seekers' requests, while this year from January 1st until now, 302 persons have been seeking asylum in Kosovo”, he says.

These people can express their will for asylum, at the border belt, in the department for migration or police stations. Where the destructive part of asylum search within borders

According to Krasniqi, the largest number come from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, due to the situation and the war trends, from which they come.

However, Kosovo is not seen as permanent residence.

“From our economic perspective are the ones that make Kosovo, or the entire region, not to be attractive here”, Krasniqi added.

Apart from housing, asylum seekers are offered services, such as health services, food, toilet packages, clothing, offering Albanian and computer courses.

The director of the Center for Asylum Research in Lipgur, Fitim Zariqi, points to the amount of daily spending for any asylum seekers.

In an answer given by the Directorate for Migration and Foreigners in the Kosovo Police, it becomes known that most of these people tend to enter Kosovo territory illegally.

According to statistics that we have the majority of them illegally enter the Republic of Kosovo by crossing the border illegally, and once they enter the uninhibited or illegal crossing of the border presents criminal acts under Kosovo's criminal legislation because of international protection, you did not raise any investigation of it, and you do not trade in measures like in cases of other border crossings illegally from other persons”, writes the Directorate for Migration and Foreign.

According to statistics from this directorate, 95 asylum seekers in Kosovo were registered during the past month alone. /Kosovo pres/