The federal government wants that remaining Afghans with acceptance confirmationwhich is currently in Pakistan stop, bring to Germany this year. “We want to complete this as much as possible in December,” said the Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) dem Editorial Network Germany. The federal government is in discussions with the Pakistani authorities about this. But it could also be that individual cases will still be processed in January, he added.
According to the minister, there are a total of 535 people – 460 people from the federal reception program and 75 people from the local staff program. “These are people who we assume will enter Germany,” said Dobrindt.
After the radical Islamic Taliban came to power in Afghanistan four years ago Germany had people at particular risk guaranteed admission in Germany. In addition to so-called local staff who supported the German mission in Afghanistan, these include human rights activists, judges and journalists. Since then, hundreds of them have been waiting in Pakistan for the promise to be kept.
More than 600 Afghans have already arrived in Germany
Pakistan’s government gave Germany until the end of the year to complete the various admission programs. There could then be further deportations to Afghanistan. Pakistan had already deported more than 200 affected people to their homeland in late summer.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 609 Afghan citizens have left for Germany since September – 160 arrived in Berlin on Tuesday on a charter flight organized by the federal government. In the case of around 640 Afghans, the federal government withdrew its acceptance promise. They received a final rejection last week – on the grounds that “there is no longer any political interest in admitting him.”
Those affected had it Acceptance confirmation received before the current government took office. However, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz no longer sees itself bound by this. Merz said in the Bundestag that Germany is adhering to its legal obligation, “but we are also looking closely.”
