Asylum figures; Credit: Luxembourg Department of Immigration, Statec

The year 2018 started off with an intake of 175 applications for international protection in Luxembourg.

A total of 175 applications for asylum were submitted to the Luxembourg Department of Immigration in January 2018. This represents a drop from 241 in December 2017 as well as a decrease from the 225 applications recorded in January last year.

The majority of the asylum applications last month came from people leaving Georgia (25), followed by Syria (21), Serbia (19) and Algeria (16).