- AI helps administrative court with asylum procedures
To expedite the processing of asylum procedures, the state is providing judges at the Administrative Court in Karlsruhe with technical assistance, including artificial intelligence (AI), as part of a pilot project. "Initially, they could benefit from the latest, work-easing IT and AI applications," said Minister of Justice Marion Gentges, according to a statement.
What the CDU politician means is called the "Asylum Case Penetration Assistant". It automatically recognizes certain relevant information in the file for processing an asylum case and marks it with a kind of "digital sticky note". This allows necessary data to be entered into the justice systems more quickly and files to be pre-structured, enabling immediate case processing. According to a court spokesman, the system is already working quite well.
Procedures are to be accelerated
Since July, chambers at the Administrative Court in Karlsruhe have been responsible exclusively for processing asylum cases from so-called safe countries of origin and countries with a recognition rate of less than five percent. For this purpose, nine additional judicial posts and five posts for service staff have been created. "This is to enable more efficient processing of procedures while maintaining high legal standards," it was stated.
Recently, main proceedings in asylum matters took an average of 9.4 months in the state, and 1.9 months in urgent cases. Gentges referred to the large number of pending asylum cases at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the heads of government of the states had formulated the goal in the fall that asylum procedures for people from countries with a recognition rate of less than five percent should be completed within a maximum of three months. In all other cases, they should be completed within six months.
- Minister of Justice Marion Gentges spearheads the implementation of the "Asylum Case Penetration Assistant," aiming to expedite information recognition and data entry during asylum case processing.
- In her efforts to accelerate asylum procedures, Marion Gentges has been instrumental in providing technical assistance, including AI, to judges at the Administrative Court in Karlsruhe.
