The demand to bring migrant workers to Italy under the country’s quota system has surpassed the number of eligible places just one hour after online applications got underway on Monday. According to the Info Migrants report, Italy saw three times as many requests as stipulated in the decree on migrant flows for this year, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

The same revealed that within an hour of making the online tool eligible, a total of 238,335 applications were received, while the official quota provides for just 82,705 placements. In addition, the tool was entirely overbooked on day one. In addition, more than 240,000 applications were uploaded onto the platform by the evening.