Just shy of 1 million people have traveled to Germany in search of asylum so far this year, according to multiple published reports, and the country should top that figure this month.

The BBC reported the number of registered asylum-seekers was at 964,574 at the end of last month, and that number included a record-setting total of 206,101 migrants in November alone.

Germany has been a highly popular destination for migrants, according to a report published this year by an arm of the European Union. The Eurostat report found more than a third of all asylum-seekers during the second quarter applied to settle in Germany, and the BBC reported Monday that Germany still has more migrants than any other member of the European Union.

It’s been widely reported that the country’s policies have been particularly favorable for those fleeing war-torn and impoverished nations, particularly for those migrants coming from Syria. But Germany’s welcoming practices have been controversial and have faced mounting public criticisms as the number of total migrants seeking asylum in Europe has swelled this year.

Germany’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maziere, spoke to the Wall Street Journal and said that the migrant totals had been declining in the past couple of weeks. Pointing to the colder, wintry weather and Turkish officials controlling the number of people illegally leaving the country as the top reasons why, de Maziere told the newspaper Germany is only registering 2,000 to 3,000 new arrivals every day. That’s a fraction of the 8,000 daily arrivals it received earlier this year.

But de Maziere told the Wall Street Journal it wasn’t clear how many of the 964,574 were still living in Germany. It’s possible that some of them have since traveled to another country and were successful in their pursuit of asylum there.