“Before I came to the cam for Germany, I didn’t know it would be so difficult. He ran into Syria in Syria in Syria in 2014 with his wife, two daughters and two sons in Syria in Kurdistan.
Life was so difficult for the family there that his wife, two daughters and a son returned to Syria. Mohammed, who did not wish not to name his family, decided to travel a danger to Germany through Libya and Acranian, who along with his son, who is suffering from cerebral atrophy, re -joined the rest of Germany in the hope of receiving medical treatment.
But after one and a half years after reaching the country, Mohammed still lives alone with a 9 -year -old seriously disabled son and does not know that, or if, his wife and two daughters will have to join. His second son died after returning to Syria, a disadvantage made everyone more painful by separation.
Placed in shared housing in refugee centers, a friend finally offered Mohammed to live as a broken house. Hey said that they struggle to meet on social welfare.
German authorities gave Mohammed Assistant Protection status. The classification is for those who do not meet specific criteria for the status of refugee under the Geneva Convention, but who are at risk of serious loss in their original country, including indiscriminate violence in the context of death penalty, torture, inhuman or derogatory treatment, or an armed conflict.
Currently there are about 351.400 people with assistant security conditions living in Germany, which is a majority from Syria. They receive a residence permit for a year. In 2024, this early period was extended to three years.* They have the right to live and work in Germany and reach social benefits. But while refugees and recognized refugees have the right to reunite with husband and wife and children under 18 years of age under the law of German and European Union, not people with assistant security conditions.
Now, the new coalition government of Conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian Sister Party, Christian Social Union (CSU) and Center-Life Social Democrats (SPD) has been transferred to suspend the reunion of the family for people with support security status in the next two years.
On Friday, June 27, Bundestag voted in favor of these sanctions on the reunion of the family, allowing them to be effective.
Internal Minister Alexander Dobrindt said. Connecting cities and municipalities across the country, “The country’s capacity for Integration reached only one braking point.”
Assistant protection status for immigration debate central
The issue of family reunion has been a matter of much political debate in Germany for people with assistant security status. In 2015, the government led by former Chancellor Angela Merkel gave the right to reunioning the husband -wife, children or parents of the beneficiaries of assistant protection. But this right was suspended in 2016 after just one year.
Since 2018, people’s families have provided assistant protection, capable of re -joining. However, the German government limits the number of visas, which is a maximum of 1,000 months. This has created a lot of uncertainty for people such as Mohammad and his family in Syria, who should struggle with long waiting list, latest bureaucracy processes and a limited number of visas.
In 2024, Germany issued around 120,000 visas for the purpose of the family reunion, according to data from the Foreign Office requested by Media Service Integration, a nationwide association of migration run by the Association Council. About 10%, some 12,000 visas, relatives of people with assistant security in Germany were released.
Family separated from slow moving bureaucracy system
Search as critic, human rights NGO asylumIt is said that the separation from the family may have a huge psychological stress on those affected, which may result in the results for integration and therefore may have irregular immigration. Without any legal passage for reunioning with children, parents or husband -wife, some people risk using unprotected routes, often irregular to reach loved ones in Germany.
Legal experts say that even though the reunion instructions of the European Union’s family do not apply to people with assistant protection, because of course, of course, MLAs are still bound by the right life of the European conference on Article six and human rights of the German law.
However, a significant ban has been introduced by the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany and accepted by the European Human Rights European Court. Thomas Gross, a German and European Union law expert at Osnbruk University, said, “If there is an alternative to family life in any other country, there is no automatic right to family reunion, especially in the original country, in Germany,” Thomas Gross said for experts of German and European Union Laws at Osnbrook University.
The constitutional court of Germany eventually wants to decide that the end of the family reunion is legally acceptable for people with assistant protection, which, according to Big, will probably have to come up in years. Families like Mauhile, Mohammed live indefinitely by slowly moving legal and bureaucracy processes.
“It’s not a question that you go to the embassy and the next day you fly to Germany. It is a complaint and often a long process,” Sakal told DW.
A recent study found that it took up to two years for more than six months before the German embassy issued a visa to family members. “It sometimes involves DNA tests, sometimes the embassy is far away in another country, which is impossible for many people,” said Big.
Mohammed said that he has gone to learning German or work because, without the support of his wife or other close ties, he is effectively a full -time carer for himself, which requires a regular hospital tour. Their subsidiary security visa is valid for one year, and after the verdict of a federal state court, a renewal is certainly away from certainly away that a Syrian man did not qualify for auxiliary security situation because Syria was considered a safe country.
Mohammed said, “My family should help with the state to come here, this is an extraordinary human situation.” “I mean, how I was going to bear it at any time?”
Dalin Sachli contributed to this article.
,Correction: The article incorrectly stated that the residence permit was only for one year.
Edited by: Reena Goldenburg
This article was updated to include the Bundestag vote.
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