a) Newcomers for 2016 was 35 377 and during the same reporting period 3157 applications were approved.
(b)(i) The following countries were approvals during the 2016 reporting period, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Palestine, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
(b)(ii) The vast majority of approved cases is for family joining, re-unification with some of the other reasons noted below:
- Persecution on political opinion
- Parent (s) and /or brother (s) and / or sister (s) killed
- Civil war and political instability
- Religion
- External aggression