Germany’s Office for Migration and Refugees must not discriminate against individual family members when assessing deportation bans, Germany’s highest administrative court has ruled. The core family - parents and children - must stay together.
Germany has extended its deportation halt on Syrians for the rest of the year. However, deportations of Afghans will continue.
665 Moroccans were deported from Germany in November 2018. Naseem was one of them. Now, he's willing to do whatever possible to return to Germany.
Immigration of skilled workers, deportations, asylum seeker benefits – Germany’s Parliament has approved a comprehensive policy bundle about immigration and asylum. The new measures will open up the labor market to skilled migrant workers on the one hand, and facilitate the return and deportation of rejected asylum seekers on the other hand.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has reiterated his demand that all Afghans obliged to leave the country shall be deported to Afghanistan. Right now, only criminal offenders and people who disguised their identity can be sent back to the country.
Since 2016, Germany has deported about 600 Afghans whose applications for asylum were rejected. When they land, they are given €150 and left to fend for themselves. Observers say this practice is irresponsible.
The Maltese authorities say that they deport about 40 foreigners per month considered irregular migrants. Many of them are foreigners who were granted asylum in Italy and traveled to the island to seek work.
A European watchdog raised concerns after German police allegedly squeezed the genitals of an Afghan deportee. While deportations are professionally conducted, there is room for improvement, the rights committee said.
A number of fires were set by migrants in the Bari-Palese repatriation center in the southeastern region of Apulia in Italy on Saturday night. At least three housing units were damaged and three people tried to flee.
Only a tiny fraction of the Syrians who have fled as refugees to Germany have returned to their homeland using German government financial aid.
On Wednesday April 17, the German Cabinet decided on a raft of new measures for a draft law which will be put before the German Parliament. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has been hoping to strengthen current measures in order to limit and better control asylum law in the country.
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has deported three men from Bosnia Herzegovina, who had been classified as Islamist threats.