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Federal Ministry of the Interior does not want to accept around 640 Afghans in need of protection who had received acceptance approval for Germany under previous federal governments. A ministry spokeswoman said they were informed that there was no longer any political interest in admitting them. In these cases there will be no admission.
It’s about Afghans who are in a bridging program or are on the human rights list. On the other hand, courts had previously judged admission commitments as part of the federal admission program to be legally binding. Human rights organizations speak of arbitrariness.
The Federal Constitutional Court had previously obliged the Federal Ministry of the Interior to decide on an Afghan’s visa application – but not as to what the decision should be. The man, an Afghan judge, had tried to enforce the promise of admission.
The federal government offers people money if they don’t take admission
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The black-red federal government wants to largely end admission programs. The Federal Minister of the Interior then… Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) have the promises checked. Dobrindt now only wants to allow entry to those Afghans whose promise of admission is “legally binding”. Courts had previously judged commitments from the federal admission program set up by the traffic light coalition as legally binding, while commitments about the other programs were more likely to be political promises that could be withdrawn.
Up to 1,800 people are currently still waiting Afghanistan in Pakistan on compliance with the German promise to accept them. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan four years ago, the federal government assured particularly vulnerable people – so-called local workers, human rights activists and journalists – that they would be accepted into Germany.
The current federal government also offers Afghans money if they give up their right to be accepted into Germany. The Federal Ministry of the Interior had previously contacted the Taliban to negotiate deportations to Afghanistan. According to media reports, federal government representatives had already met with the Taliban.
