DThe FDP is reluctant to make the fundamentally planned simplifications for family reunification with refugees. With a view to the corresponding agreement in the coalition agreement, FDP parliamentary secretary Stephan Thomae said “Frankfurter Rundschau” (Saturday), there are already more than a million Ukrainian refugees in the country, including a large number of minors who go to school and need to be accommodated. “We can’t just say, we’re going to bring more families to catch up.” First of all, an overall concept is needed. “As a coalition, we have to ask ourselves whether the assessment of the projects hasn’t changed,” he added.
In the coalition agreement, the SPD, Greens and FDP had announced a number of simplifications and improvements for those seeking protection in Germany, including family reunification. This should be part of the next legislative package, the so-called Migrationspaket II, become. With the first migration package, at the end of last year, the traffic light pushed through the so-called right to stay for those who had been tolerated for a long time.
The coalition agreement of 2021 states: “We will equate family reunification for persons with subsidiary protection with GRP refugees.” ) Find admission, provide evidence of sufficient living space and income so that the nuclear family can follow.
The responsible rapporteur of the SPD parliamentary group, Helge Lindh, however, insisted on the project. Germany has “the legal and humanitarian obligation to protect the family. That is why we must not use family reunification as a lever to limit immigration”.
High failure rates in German tests
Families of recognized refugees do not need to provide proof of their German language proficiency in order to join their family – other foreigners do, for example, if they want to move to Germany with their spouse.
Both German tests 13,607 participants failed last year, more than a third (33.9 percent), as reported by the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Saturday). She relies on a response from the Foreign Office to a request from the left-wing faction.
What was decided at the migration summit
The federal and state governments reached an agreement at the refugee summit in the Chancellery after around six hours of negotiations. The federal government is providing the federal states with an additional one billion euros this year for the care of refugees.
Source: WELT/ Carsten Hädler
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