Around 18,000 asylum decisions from  2000 until 2018 will be reviewed by the authorities in the city of Bremen over a planned three month period, BAMF President Jutta Cordt said Friday in Berlin to German agency KNA. This occurs during allegations by the Spiegel magazine that asylum seekers paid 1,000 Euros to a lawyer in order to receive asylum status a few months later.  As of now, Cordt stated that there has not been any "deliberate manipulation" seen during the review process regarding the asylum applications.

Around 70 employees will be tasked with the review process. If there is any wrongdoing found, an external investigator will handle the legal procedures. Reuters reported that one of the former managers of Bremen Bamf field office granted positive decisions to 1200 asylum applications without any legal justification to do so.  Ulla Jelpke, a member of the Left Party in the German Bundestag, criticized the review for also not including positive asylum decisions.

The German Spiegel magazine pointed out that people who the Bremen office considered a "security risk" may have received asylum. One individual, the report said, has committed multiple crimes and had went to jail. Some refugees who may have gotten asylum possibly had links to the "Islamic State" or "IS," report said.