3.4.8.5. Other closures

Closed cases for other reasons increased by roughly three-fifths from 2022, reaching a 6-year record (83,000, the majority of which were in Dublin procedures). After a considerable increase in such cases (up by four-fifths from a year earlier), Germany accounted for over one-half of all otherwise closed cases, primarily due to closing cases lodged by Afghans and Syrians.