Germany’s system for registering asylum seekers, called Erstverteilung von Asylbegehrenden, which translates to Initial Allocation System for Asylum Seekers, allows refugees to enter the country quickly in order to receive the essential food and shelter that they require.

Authorities in Baden-Württemberg have a tougher regime, where police confiscate cash and valuables above €350.

“The practice in Bavaria and the federal rules set out in law correspond in substance with the process in Switzerland”, Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann told Bild on Thursday.

Cash and valuables can be seized if they amount to more than euros 750.

Mr Ozoguz said: “As an asylum-seeker you shouldn’t be better off than a benefits claimant”.

Opposition Green party MP Volker Beck told Der Tagesspiegel that it was right for asylum applicants to pay for services to the extent they could.

“We can try to reason (with them) again and again but it should also be clear: (Anti-Semitism) has no place in our society…we must simply put clear limits”, she said.

The bill has also been criticized by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which said it “could fuel fear [and] xenophobia“.

Among the migrants suing the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, some have been waiting on their asylum status ruling for more than a year.

Meanwhile, the MailOnline revealed that the German government is unable to say where more than half of the one million asylum seekers allowed into the country have ended up.

Germany registered a staggering 1.1million asylum applications by the end of a year ago – but its system does not record much more than an applicant country of origin.

Another reason the country can not account for the alarming number is that some asylum seekers may have applied multiple times in a bid to get sent to the city of their choice.

“It can’t be the case that asylum seekers are forced to take legal action against the state after crossing the border, so that it finally makes a decision about their application”, Kutschaty said.

North Rhine Westphalia, which includes Cologne, takes far more of the immigrants than any other part of Germany with 21 per cent, whereas Bremen takes the least with less than 1 per cent. In the capital Berlin it is just over 5 per cent. But the Daily Mail notes that of all the refugees that came in, only 476,649 of them have registered for asylum, meaning roughly 600,000 are essentially lost.

This leaves over 600,000 unaccounted for, a figure that German authorities admitted may be due to delays in paperwork processing as the European nation attempts to deal with the enormous influx of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa.