Case Study: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees achieves rapid, secure registration for 1M refugees annually with Oracle Engineered Systems

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees Deploys New Refugee Registration System on Oracle Engineered Systems

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) faced an acute crisis in summer 2015 as up to 10,000 asylum seekers arrived daily, exposing legacy systems that could not cope with high volumes, central data sharing, or prevention of duplicate registrations. BAMF needed a fast, secure way to capture complete personal and biometric data on arrival and to issue a central arrival certificate to support entitlement, allocation, and security checks.

Working with Oracle, BAMF deployed ASYL Online on Oracle Exalogic and Exadata within 40 days, creating a central platform that cut registration time from about 60 to 20 minutes and tripled daily throughput. The system enables storage of fingerprints and passport photos at first entry, supports over 1 million registrations per year, performs real-time data matching to reduce fraud and security risks, issues immediate arrival certificates, clears backlogs, and improved coordination and transparency across federal and state authorities.

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees

Markus Richter

Head of Infrastructure and IT Department