GETTY Nearly 80 per cent of asylum seekers have arrived to Germany without a passport

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Four in five migrants hoping to make a new life in the promised land of Europe will land in Germany without a passport a shocking new report by the federal police has revealed. Between January and April, out of 114,255 of asylum seekers waiting to cross the border, around 91,000 did not have the required documents. And from January to March this year German border officers seized 1,306 fake documents from asylum seekers, of which 145 were Syrian refugees, according to German newspaper Bild.

Meanwhile, in 2015, federal police seized 4,973 fake identification documents when searching travelling migrants in Germany - 834 of those were fake IDs of Syrian refugees. It seems criminals have managed to slip through the net as since the first four months of 2016, more than 4,000 people who have entered the country are now on the Germany’s most wanted list. There is speculation that many of the migrants are forced to use fake documents after destroying their papers before trying to enter Germany since they reveal information on travel routes within Europe.

GETTY More than 1.1 million migrants entered Germany last year

It's a strain on our society Frank-Jürgen Weise

More than 1.1 million migrants entered Germany last year, with most coming from Middle Eastern and North African countries. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's grip on power is growing ever weaker, with rebellion across the country against her controversial immigration policies. She has consistently berated other EU states for introducing border controls to bring the migrant flow under control, ever since she made a pledge last summer to welcome all Syrians with open arms. But growing cracks appeared and members of her own movement are beginning to openly question her stance on immigration following the horrific Cologne sex attacks.

GETTY Four in five migrants arriving in Germany do so without a passport

Germany will now have to brace itself for hundreds and thousands of migrants landing in Germany to join their relatives, according to the federal agency for migration and refugees (Bamf). Spouses, children and parents of unaccompanied, under-age refugees from Syria will arrive, according to a document by the agency. During the next years up to 500,000 Syrians could encourage their families to join them in Germany, the study predicts.

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On average this means that one relative per refugee will join them. This is based on evidence which shows around 428,000 Syrians entered Germany in 2015 and during the first five months of this year this number has already hit 72,000.

Chairman of the federal agency for refugees, Frank-Jürgen Weise, said applications would be dealt with quickly. He added: “I am sure that the applications we received politically will be dealt with till the end of this year. “Now the processing will have to start. If my calculations are correct and every decision maker makes two decisions per day, then we will be done by the end of the year.”

GETTY Protesters across the country are against Merkel's controversial immigration policies