Nazir Wakil, Abudalaziz Dyab, and Ahmad Al Soliman

All three are fleeing civil war and had applied for asylum in Germany

三位皆逃難中並且在德國申請庇護

Two had their applications accepted but Ahmad Al Soliman is still waiting to find out what his fate will be

兩位的申請已得到核可，但 Ahmad Al Soliman 仍面對著未知的未來

His application for asylum was rejected, because in 2014, he was fingerprinted and registered against his will by police in Hungary

他申請庇護遭拒，由於在2014年他被匈牙利警方強迫套取指模並且登記

Which means Germany can claim that's where he should be living

這意味著德國能聲稱他就該居住在匈牙利

This is his ID card. The red line indicates that he must leave the country if his appeal fails

這是他的身分證。紅線代表他若上訴失敗則必須立刻離開德國

So let's use Ahmad's case to look at how the asylum system is working in Germany

我們用 Ahmad 的案例來解釋德國庇護系統如何運作

Germany's federal office for migration and refugees, the BAMF, publishes monthly stats on the number of applications made for asylum, and the number of asylum decisions made by the authorities

德國聯邦移民與難民局，簡稱 BAMF，每月發佈庇護申請件數以及被政府核可的申請件數統計數據

So you can think of this as a kind of process

所以這可以被視為一種程序

Applications go in, decisions come out, which means a backlog can build up

申請書進來，申請結果出去，這樣造成申請個案的累積

In January 2014, there were over 14,000 applications, and more than 10,000 decisions

2014年的一月有 14,000 申請件數，以及 10,000 申請結果

Let's look at how that picture changed over the next year and a half

我們來看一下一年後的變化

Here are the number of decisions being made each month

這是每月政府丟出的申請結果

You can see it's building over time

可見數字越來越大

But here are the number of applications

但這是申請件數

Whenever the red line is hiding the blue line, it means there are more applications coming in than there are decisions coming out

紅線高於藍線就代表申請件數多於政府作出的決定數

By August 2016, that difference had grown to more than 40,000

在2016年八月，這之間的差距已達 40,000 件

At the beginning of 2014, the backlog was just under 100,000 pending applications

在 2014 年年初，累積件數不到 100,000 件

The number of pending applications has never dropped since February 2014

這個數字自從 2014 年二月就從來沒有減少過

By August 2016, that number had grown to more than 565,000 applications

在 2016 年八月，這數目已成長至 565,000 件

Now that Ahmad's case is being rejected, he's appealing in court

Ahmad 申請失敗，所以他將上訴

In the first half of this year, there were more than 32,000 asylum appeal cases heard by the courts

在今年上半年，有超過 32 萬庇護申請上訴案

Fewer than 5% of them ended in a positive ruling in favor of the applicant

少於 5% 的申請人得到有利於自己的結果

Ahmad is still waiting to hear what his outcome will be

Ahmad 仍等著看他的結果為何