France granted asylum to some 56,000 people in 2022, bringing the total to over half a million – a symbolic number as the government would like to reform the country’s immigration laws and shorten the amount of time it takes to rule an asylum claim.
In its annual report, Ofpra, the French asylum office, reported Monday that 56,276 people received protection from France as asylum seekers in 2022, bringing the total number of officially-recognised asylum seekers to 547,102.
