Some Syrians may have to leave Germany, Interior Minister says

 Sunday, January 5, 2025

Islamabad (UrduPoint News Today/ Pakistan Point News - DW Urdu - 05 January 2025) According to reports received from the German capital Berlin on Sunday, January 5, Nancy Feiser said that millions of Syrian citizens were forced to leave their homeland due to the years-long Syrian civil war, of which about one million arrived in Germany in search of asylum.

German authorities will review anew

According to Interior Minister Feiser, “In accordance with the clear requirements set out in German law, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) will review after the internal situation in Syria stabilizes whether Syrian citizens seeking asylum who have been granted protection in Germany still need it.

It is possible that this protection granted temporarily to some Syrian citizens may be revoked.

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The German Interior Minister said this in an interview with the country’s Funke Media Group newspapers, which was published on Sunday. In the interview, Nancy Pfizer also said that Syrian asylum seekers who will no longer receive legal protection in Germany will have to return to their homeland.

Other reasons for staying in Germany

The Federal Interior Minister added in the interview that the repatriation of Syrian refugees from Germany in certain circumstances will apply to those who do not have other reasons that can be proven to be sufficient to stay in Germany.

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According to Nancy Pfizer, Syrians working or studying in Germany will not be required to voluntarily return to Syria.

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The German news agency DPA has written that the German Foreign Office and the Interior Ministry are currently working together in Berlin to find out the transparent and real facts about the situation in the Middle Eastern country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government and how stable the situation is.

In the words of the Federal Interior Minister, "We are focusing in particular on the security aspect and in this regard the German government is working closely with its European and international partners."

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He added, "Syrians who want to return should be helped. Criminals and religious extremists should be deported as soon as possible."

The number of Syrians in Germany is about one million

According to figures from the German Interior Ministry, the total number of Syrians currently living in the country is 975,000.

Most of them came to Germany in 2015, fleeing the civil war in Syria.

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More than 300,000 of these Syrian refugees have subsidiary protection as refugees. This means that they were not allowed to stay in Germany because they were facing persecution or coercion on an individual level, but because their country was in a civil war.

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The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees recently said that due to the changing situation in Syria and the apparent stabilization of the situation, it was suspending the decision-making process on asylum applications from Syrians in Germany.