US EditionGermany Updates: Cabinet Approves Family Reunification Curbs
- German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt presented a bill on May 28, 2025, in Berlin to limit family reunification for certain refugees.
- The bill aligns with the agreement between Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative party and the SPD to temporarily halt family reunification for refugees granted limited protection status for a duration of two years.
- This suspension affects refugees allowed to stay due to risks like political persecution, and exceptions apply for urgent cases amid ongoing migration policy changes.
- Dobrindt supported the bill by emphasizing the need to lessen incentives attracting migrants to Germany, while critics argue that the measure separates families and creates barriers to integration.
- The recently established conservative government in Germany has introduced tougher migration measures, marking a departure from the previous administration’s policy that permitted up to 1,000 monthly family reunifications.
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz's cabinet has approved the first tightening of migration restrictions. Here's what the proposals mean.
Ministers have decided to suspend family reunification for certain refugees and to withdraw naturalisation after three years for particularly well-integrated immigrants.
Migration was an important campaign topic for CDU and CSU. Now the new federal government is making serious: the black and red cabinet is starting to tighten up, two draft laws have been adopted.
Migration was an important campaign topic for CDU and CSU. Now the new federal government wants to make serious – and takes first decisions.
Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt wants to let fewer relatives of asylum migrants into the country. Criticism of this is loud and justified, but it is too short.
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