Migration: “Worrying development” – Berlin is experiencing a flood of naturalization lawsuits | EUROtoday

The Berlin State Immigration Office (LEA) is failing to course of all naturalization functions throughout the prescribed interval of three months.

As the RBB experiences, nearly 2,000 complaints for failure to behave have been acquired by the Berlin Administrative Court within the first ten months of the 12 months. These are so-called obligation actions, which change into admissible if an administration doesn’t resolve on an utility or objection inside an inexpensive time frame. There have already been 20 p.c extra complaints for failure to behave than in the entire of final 12 months and 33 occasions as many as in 2022.

According to data from the RBB, Justice Senator Felor Badenberg wrote to Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) drawing consideration to the “worrying development in the responsibility of the State Office for Immigration”, which has “a direct impact on the local business area”. She asks “urgently for remedial action”.

However, in accordance with RBB data, the inner administration attested to the LEA that it was “highly efficient in processing” naturalization functions. Delays have been associated to the 75,000 new functions prior to now 22 months in addition to the 40,000 previous functions that the state workplace took over from the districts at first of 2024. In addition, this isn’t a particular drawback for Berlin. “The significant increase in naturalization applications and actions for failure to act can be seen nationwide,” emphasised the inside administration.

Law companies would additionally woo purchasers with the promise of an accelerated course of. According to the inner administration, these would have the other impact. “This tends to delay the procedures and incur additional costs,” the inner administration informed the RBB.

In response to a request from the broadcaster, Interior Senator Spranger’s press workplace has now at the very least introduced that it’ll treatment the state of affairs. “The internal administration continues to support the LEA in processing the naturalization procedures efficiently and quickly. In view of the increasing number of lawsuits for inaction, the process department has been strengthened in terms of personnel.”