In the current political situation, asylum procedure times are in the public eye. This is because the limitation of irregular migration through the repatriation of rejected asylum seekers is limited by the duration of asylum proceedings at the administrative courts. While the average duration of court proceedings in 2022 was still 26 months, this could be reduced to 21.9 months in 2023. Read more ...
With the Act on the Adaptation of the Freedom of Movement Act/EU and Other Provisions to Union Law, the legal status of related persons was included in the freedom of movement law in November 2021. The new provision was made to avert a conviction in an infringement procedure of the European Commission (number 2011/2086). Read more ...
According to a communication from the Federal Foreign Office of 27 October 2020 to Akbulut Gökay, the spokesperson for migration and integration policy of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE (question on SF no. 9-393), it is currently not possible to take the German test required for the reunification of spouses in a total of 81 third countries (including the main countries of origin Egypt, Albania, Iran, Lebanon and Mexico). Read more ...
In Hamburg, travel documents for foreigners have been issued to Eritrean citizens with subsidiary protection since November 2020 on the basis of "new findings" by the Aliens Department. Read more ...
The regulation in § 26 paragraph 2 Employment Regulation (BeschV) with the so-called Western Balkans regulation is to be extended. The regulation is currently limited until the end of 2020 and has developed into an intensively used route for legal labor migration since it came into force in 2016. Read more ...
Germany has delayed for nine years a mandatory adjustment of the right to free movement of persons in respect of life partners who have entered into a duly certified durable relationship with a Union citizen. Read more ...
The Skilled Worker Immigration Act came into force on 1 March 2020. The aim is to facilitate the recruitment of qualified skilled workers from third countries in line with the needs of the economy. Read more ...
German legislators have responded to an imminent BREXIT by making important changes to citizenship laws, including allowing dual citizenship both for German citizens residing in the United Kingdom and for British citizens living in Germany. Read more ...
The future of Germany as a business location depends to a large extent on how well it is possible to secure and expand the skilled labor base of companies and enterprises. Prosperity, the stability of social security systems and the associated social cohesion, as essential elements of the social market economy, are closely linked to the strength of the economy. The aim is to maintain and expand this strength in the future by providing good framework conditions and a forward-looking skilled workforce. Read more ...
The legal basis for being issued a visa in order to work as an au-pair is section 18 paragraph 3 of the German Residence Act in conjunction with section 12 in the Employment Ordinance. Moreover, an au-pair must comply with the instructions in the Bundesagentur für Arbeit’s current information sheets. EU regulation 2016/801 (REST regulation) does not specify that the rules on entering and residing in the country must be implemented for working as an au-pair. For this reason, no adaptations to German national laws were made for this group of people. Read more ...
The number of deportations continued to increase again in 2016. The government released numerous statistics related to the topic of deportations and voluntary departures upon the request of the socialist party DIE LINKE. The figures show there were 25,375 deportations in 2016, which is the equivalent of a 21.5 % increase compared to the previous year. The number of assisted voluntary departures even increased by 45% to well over 54,000. Additionally, there were many departures assisted by state funds as well as unassisted departures, but unfortunately there is no valid data on the number of these. Read more ...
In January 2018, the German lawyers association, Deutsches Anwaltsinstitut, held its 24th annual conference on administrative law in Leipzig, where the President of the Federal Administrative Court, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Rennert, spoke about the challenges the administrative courts are facing as a result of the dramatic increase in legal proceedings in asylum-related matters. Read more ...
