1
 Overview​

Key Findings

  1. In September 2025, the EU+ received 78,000 applications for international protection, which marks a 9% decline from the same period in 2024.

  2. Following the ousting of the Assad regime in December 2024, far fewer Syrians have been applying for asylum, such that they have no longer been the main citizenship for months now; Afghans and Venezuelans both lodged more applications in September 2025.

  3. Following a court ruling, Germany received a large volume of repeated applications from Afghan women already residing in Germany in the past months. As a result, Afghans lodged by far the most applications in the EU+ in September 2025.

  4. The number of cases awaiting a first instance decision remained at near record levels, with 890,000 pending at the end of Sept 2025. It is estimated that the total number of pending cases, including those in appeal or review, at the end of August 2025 (latest data) was approximately 1.2 million.

  5. At the end of September, there were about 4.5 million beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU+ who fled Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion. Read EUAA Flash Report on the Situation in Ukraine and Displacement to the EU+