Immigrants should be able to become Germans more quickly, and at the same time the traffic light wants to get rejected asylum seekers out of the country quickly. Answers to the most important questions about the Bundestag’s resolutions on migration.
More than twelve million people who live in the Federal Republic do not have a German passport – even though almost half of them have lived in the country for more than ten years. In order to give more immigrants full voting rights and social participation, the federal government is now modernizing citizenship law – after years of poisonous debates. The Bundestag passed the reform this Friday. It is intended to speed up and simplify naturalization processes. However, it becomes more difficult for rejected asylum seekers. Parliament has also tightened the rules for deportations.