Jutta Cordt
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees was managed or directed by whom in Aug 2017?
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees The Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge ( Federal Office for Migration and Refugees , BAMF ) is a German federal agency under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . It is located in the former Südkaserne ( South Barracks ) in Nuremberg . It is the central migration authority in Germany and is responsible for registration , integration and repatriation of migrants . It carries out asylum proceedings and decides about asylum applications . History . The office was founded on 12 January 1953 as Bundesdienststelle für die Anerkennung ausländischer Flüchtlinge ( Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees ) in Langwasser , Nuremberg . On 18 September 2015 , during the European migrant crisis , Frank-Jürgen Weise , president of the German employment office Bundesagentur für Arbeit ( Federal Agency for Employment ) , was appointed also as chief of BAMF ; since he was not allowed to have a further paid function , he served as a head of the agency without any additional payment . Officially , the vice president of the agency took over the tasks of the office head . In 2017 BAMF reported that of the 340 000 migrants who participated German language courses during 2016 , less than half at 113 050 received a passing grade . The authority had no idea why . 2000-2018 Bribe scandal . The BAMF is alleged to have accepted bribes for granting asylum and following these allegations 18,000 asylum approvals since 2000 are to be reviewed . The Bremen office was stripped of its authority to process applications and 13 other offices are being investigated on suspicion of irregularities . Preliminary results of the revision from March 2019 showed , that asylum-proceedings had been violated in 145 cases . Prosecutors assumed at that point , that a single administrator of the BAMF had collaborated with two private lawyers and arranged preferential treatment for the clients they reported to her . Love was cited as the likely motive . Statistics . BAMF is in charge of the Central Register of Foreign Nationals ( AZR ) . It is also the national data supplier for the Eurostat in the field of asylum statistics . BAMF publishes data updated on a monthly basis concerning developments in the asylum applications filed in Germany , on the ten countries of origin with the highest number of applicants arriving , as well as on the decisions made concerning the asylum applications , and statistical data on transfer requests that have been filed in the Dublin Procedure . Structure . Arrival centres The arrival centres are the central entry point when it comes to the asylum procedure . It is in the arrival centres that all the steps are carried out under one roof which are necessary for the asylum procedure . This includes the medical examination by the Länder , the recording of the personal data and the identity check , the application , the interview and the BAMF decision on the asylum application , as well as the initial advice on access to the labour market by the local Employment Agency . Branch offices/regional offices It is in the branch offices that BAMF carries out the asylum procedure , with the filing of the application , the interview and the decision on more complex cases . Some branch offices , known as “regional offices” , offer a point of contact for the organisations operating integration activities , and are responsible for the integration work on the ground . Decision-making centres It is in the decision-making centres that the decision is taken on the asylum applications which are ready to be decided on of those applicants who have already been interviewed . This particularly relates to applications lodged by individuals from unsafe countries of origin such as Syria , Iraq and Eritrea . The decision-making centres thus take some of the strain from the arrival centres and branch offices . International cooperation . BAMF operates as Germanys national contact point for the European Asylum Support Office ( EASO ) , the European Migration Network ( EMN ) and the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund ( AMIF ) . Governance . Budget . BAMF is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 2017 , the agency had an annual budget of around 780 million euros . Management . - Albert Maximilian Schmid ( 2000-2010 ) - Manfred Schmidt ( 2010-2015 ) - Frank-Jürgen Weise ( 2015-2016 ) - Jutta Cordt ( 2017-2018 ) - since 2018 Hans-Eckard Somme