Afghanistan: Federal authorities revokes nearly each second acceptance promise for Afghans | EUROtoday

Almost half of the two,308 Afghans who have been dwelling in Pakistan on the time the Union and SPD took over authorities with a promise of admission from the time of the visitors mild authorities ought to now not be allowed to come back to Germany. That’s what she reviews Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung citing solutions from the Federal Government
to a parliamentary query from the Left.

According to this, 788 Afghans have come to Germany for the reason that present federal authorities took workplace in May final yr, and round 410 extra individuals are nonetheless within the exit course of. However, in line with the federal authorities, all commitments beneath Section 22 of the Residence Act for individuals on the human rights checklist and the bridging program have been withdrawn on the grounds that they weren’t legally binding and that there was now not any political curiosity in admitting them. According to the federal government, the in-person hearings meant to deal with attainable safety issues have been accomplished apart from a couple of particular person instances.

At the start of May, the federal authorities of the Union and SPD initially stopped the admission packages for individuals from Afghanistan after taking workplace. Some of these affected complained that previously few weeks a number of hundred Afghans had arrived by airplane from Pakistan to Germany with affirmation of admission. Hundreds of different Afghans, nevertheless, have been refused entry.

“Irresponsible, shabby and humanly unbearable”

The Left Party’s refugee coverage spokeswoman, Clara Bünger, criticized the federal government’s actions. “The fact that the federal government is simply abandoning half of the vulnerable Afghans who were promised admission by the Federal Republic of Germany is irresponsible, shabby and humanely intolerable,” she stated Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ).

Bünger stated that these affected had been accommodated and cared for for years with German help in view of the deliberate admission to Pakistan. “The federal government cannot simply claim that it bears no responsibility and leave the people to the Taliban’s arbitrary regime, which is inhumane and contemptuous of women.”

Contrary to a promise on the contrary by Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, the federal authorities can be abandoning half of the remaining native employees. Only 81 of 218 native workers and their kin had their previous acceptance guarantees maintained. “The reference to necessary security checks is a pure diversionary tactic, because from the authorities’ perspective, actual or supposed security concerns arose in only three percent of the interviews,” stated Bünger WALNUT. This doesn’t clarify the big variety of revocations of the unique admission commitments, together with amongst native employees.

The left-wing politician known as on the federal authorities to cease its “legal tactics of attrition” and to implement all authentic acceptance guarantees in an easy method. There are at the moment quite a few different lawsuits pending earlier than the executive courts in opposition to denied admission choices.

According to the federal authorities, as of December 31, 2025, a complete of 37,652 Afghan individuals had entered Germany through the admission packages since May 2021.