Thousands of migrants in Germany have been waiting so long for their first asylum processing interview they have taken to the courts to speed up the system, a situation described by critics as “organised government failure”. According to figures from the German Ministry of the Interior, at the end of 2015 some 2,229 ‘failure to act’ cases against the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) were lodged by migrants in the administrative courts in relation to sluggish asylum processing, reports Thüringer Allgemeine. ‘Failure to act’ cases can be lodged against government offices if no decision is made within a reasonable time following a complaint. The BAMF figures were given in a parliamentary answer to a question asked by Sevim Dağdelen, a German politician of Turkish origin who is a member of the Left Party. According to the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Interior — Günter Krings — of the total submitted the lion’s share came from four countries: 560 from Afghanistan; 337 from Iraq; a further 217 from Eritrea; and 207 from Syria. Ms. Dağdelen lays the blame firmly at the door of the German government and the reintroduction of case-by-case assessments for Syrian migrants. She said: “The federal government imposed increasingly senseless work on the already overworked