46 • In many nursing homes, whose founders are natural persons, the statutory mandatory requirements and standards for the performance of activities are not being met (in terms of space, access to the rooms and parts of buildings in which occupants are located, freedom of movement, basic equipment); • There is a lack of an effective control inspection monitoring of the competent authorities as well as control of the situation on the field; • The process of admission to nursing homes is generally not uniform, not subject to control, admission contracts are frequently signed by relatives and not with the occupant even in cases when reasons for such occurrences cannot be justified. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ELIMINATION OF DEFICIENCIES It is necessary to adopt regulations that will standardize the arrest conditions and procedures and binding of occupants in residential social care institutions. It is necessary with no further delay to intensify activities for a comprehensive deinstitutionalization, reduction of capacities and closure of existing residential social care institutions, as well as providing care for their occupants in the community. It is imperative to immediately discontinue the practice of isolation of occupants in the residential social care institutions. It is indispensable to foresee conditions and prescribe procedures on movement restrictions and physical restraint in residential social care institutions. 6.6. Treatment of asylum seekers During 2013, NPM dedicated special attention to the status of asylum seekers in Serbia. On that occasion, was generated intense coordinated cooperation with the UNHCR Belgrade Office and civil society organizations Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and Group 484. Examining the legality and regularity with regard to the treatment of asylum seekers, as well as the application of valid standards concerning asylum seekers, i.e. irregular migrants in the territory of Serbia, NPM has observed that public authorities have not established a systematic approach that would enable efficient treatment of asylum seekers in compliance with regulations in force and international standards in the field of asylum and migration. According to official data, 5066 foreigners who have expressed their intention to seek asylum in Serbia143 were registered in 2013. It is estimated that the total number of migrants who passed through the territory of Serbia in 2013, is twice the number of registered asylum seekers. Of these, only 154 applied for asylum, while asylum was given to two of them, and subsidiary protection to three persons. The fact that in January 2014, nearly a thousand strangers wrer registered who expressed their intention to seek asylum in Serbia clearly indicates the increasing problems of migration through the territory of Serbia. The disproportion between the number of persons who expressed their intention to seek asylum and of those who have applied for asylum, and particularly of those who took part in the asylum application process, is an indication that their aim was not to obtain asylum, but a way to have access to the temporary accommodation in the centers for asylum seekers and to legalize their temporary stay in Serbia until they manage to go across the border to Western European countries. There are significant indications that there is a developed informal system that plays an important role with regard to the position of migrants and their transfer across the border to neighboring countries. It is quite disturbing that the police in most cases fail to initiate the process of establishing identity of migrants, as soon as they are discovered. As a rule, they are not brought to the police station, nor 143 Mostly from Afghanistan, Mali, Somalia, Syria, Algeria.