Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plans to submit a draft law to abolish the accelerated naturalization introduced by the traffic light government on Wednesday. “The express naturalization after three years of stay was a wrong way,” said Dobrindt of the “Bild” newspaper on Wednesday. “We end it now. German citizenship must be at the end of an integration process and not at the beginning.”
The traffic light government had put a new citizenship law into force last year. With “special integration services”, naturalization has been possible since then after three years. This can be good language skills, volunteer commitment or very good performance in school or profession. In general, the deadline for an application for naturalization from eight to five years was reduced.
Dobrindt is hoping for a reverse of the law to reverse the accelerated naturalization, also a decline in the number of asylum seekers. The express naturalization “also set false incentives for illegal migration,” he told the “picture”. “We reduce these pull factors.” The CSU politician emphasized that it was too short to live in Germany for three years “in order to be able to integrate into living conditions in Germany.”
Source: Stern
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