Germany’s office responsible for asylum procedures is to receive a significant increase in staffing, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. An additional 1,600 full-time positions at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees should be filled “as soon as possible,” an agency spokesman confirmed to dpa. It currently has around 8,000 positions, according to its own information. The government is also working hard to speed up and digitalize asylum procedures, at a cost of €300 million ($325,6 million), Faeser said. Migration is a divisive issue in Germany, fuell…