Make becoming a German citizen easier, integration ministers urge
Easier child access to German citizenship has been floated by integration ministers of Germany s 16 states. But the idea is likely to face opposition from federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
Children born to foreigners living in Germany should be granted faster access by law to German citizenship, integration ministers from Germany s 16 states have urged in a majority appeal
Meeting in the harbor city-state of Bremen Friday, ministers called on the federal government to reform Germany s Nationality Act (StAG) by reducing a resident child s waiting time for citizenship from the current eight years to six years.
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InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/17
In 2018, Germany s asylum office BAMF came under fire for supposedly wrongly issuing numerous positive asylum decisions. Now, German courts have ruled in favor of 66 refugees whose positive asylum decisions had been revoked.
German administrative courts have ruled in favor of 66 refugees after they brought lawsuits against the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees BAMF. They were appealing the withdrawal of their positive asylum decisions.
That s according to the newspapers of the Funke Media Group from Wednesday (February 17) citing an answer by the federal government to an inquiry of the Left parliamentary group.
The rulings come nearly three years after proceedings about asylum decisions in a branch of Germany s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) caused a scandal.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/01/15
Germany s asylum office has moved away from its restrictive practice against church asylum. The introduced changes pertain to the time limits within which responsibility for an asylum seeker would move to Germany from other EU countries. The obstacles to church asylum had previously been so high that help for hardship cases was made nearly impossible.
Germany s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has changed course in regards to how it deals with church asylum cases, a spokesperson for BAMF confirmed on Thursday (January 14) in a reply to a request by the news agency
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/01/08
Without immigration, many job positions in European countries remain vacant. The pandemic has not only made immigration even more difficult, it also slowed down the efforts of the German government to attract nurses and other skilled workers.
According to Germany s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly slowed down the much-needed immigration of skilled workers from outside the European Union. We are not seeing the development we had hoped for, but also not a complete abatement, a BAMF employee said. After a slump in the spring of 2020 the numbers slowly picked up in the second half of 2020 this shows that processes are underway, the employee added.