US EditionGermany Granted Citizenship to a Record Number of People in 2024, Led by Syrians
- In 2024, Germany naturalized a historic high of nearly 292,000 individuals, with Syrians and Turks representing the largest groups among those who received citizenship.
- This rise followed reforms effective June 27, 2024, which shortened the residency requirement from eight to five years and allowed three years for well-integrated applicants.
- The new law also permitted dual citizenship and removed renunciation obligations, enabling many long-term residents, especially Turkish nationals, to naturalize.
- Turkish naturalizations more than doubled to 22,525, Syrians numbered 83,150, and Russians increased over sixfold to 12,980, showing broad effects of the law.
- The conservative-led coalition that took office in May 2025 has abolished the three-year fast-track path and plans to reinstate a five-year minimum residency requirement.
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Germany granted citizenship to a record number of people last year, 292,000. Syrians were the most likely to receive it, the Federal Statistical Office said. But the data comes as a big surprise. Russians are among the five most frequently represented nationalities to have received German citizenship. 12,980 of them received German citizenship last year, an increase of 551 percent compared to the previous year.
In 2024, as many foreigners as never got German citizenship, the record since the introduction of statistics is due to the reformed citizenship law.
2024 saw a record increase of 46% in naturalizations in Germany, thanks to shorter courses for merits and integration courses.
Getting German has never been so easy: in 2024 nearly 300,000 people received German citizenship, an increase of 46 percent.
The number of naturalisations in Germany last year was as high as never before.
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