Refugees: Dobrindt presents the law on family reunification

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) wants to present the cabinet to the draft law to restrict family reunification for certain refugees on Wednesday. The Interior Ministry of the German Press Agency confirmed a corresponding report by the “Bild am Sonntag”. As agreed in the coalition agreement, refugees with limited protection status should no longer be allowed to bring family members to Germany for two years. Hardfalls are excluded.

“So far, 1,000 people have been followed up to Germany per month. This is now the end,” said Dobrindt the “Bild”. “We have to significantly reduce the pull factors (sog factors) to Germany. We also show that migration policy in Germany has changed.”

Family reunification possible since 2018

The family reunification for refugees without asylum status had already been suspended by the then black and red coalition from March 2016 to July 2018. At the time, this was justified with the intention of avoiding an overload in recording and integration. Since August 2018, a total of 1,000 people have been allowed to enter this protection status as relatives of people.

Protest by non -governmental organizations

The coalition agreement of SPD, Greens and FDP from 2021 actually stipulated that family reunification should also be possible to people from this group unlimited again. However, this project was not implemented. More than 30 non -governmental organizations have appealed to the federal government to drop their plans to restrict the family reunification for refugees and to expand it instead.