Hopping stop from Afghanistan: wave of lawsuits against the federal government

In a safe house somewhere in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, Mr. Hosseini* (* name changed) has been waiting for his departure for months. It is 200 kilometers from here to the border of his home country: Afghanistan. An multi -bed room, a small pocket money, he has not stayed more since escaping to Pakistan. The savings have long been all.

The Taliban threatened him and his family with death. As a gay man, he was particularly at risk. In any case, it can be found in a application that the Afghan’s lawyer submits this Friday at the Berlin Administrative Court. It lies that star before. Your goal is a successful urgent application for a visa for him.

Mr. Hosseini belongs to around 2400 Afghans with a recording commitment from Germany. Nevertheless, they have been stuck in Pakistan for months. The new federal government had stopped all recording programs from there immediately after taking office in May. Now the Afghan threatens a deportation back into the country from which they fled. The Pakistani government has already shown tens of thousands of Afghans since the beginning of the year. From the end of June you apparently want to get rid of those people with valid recording commitments from other countries. Hosseini then also threatens the deportation.

From this Friday, a group of lawyers plans to ensure at least some of the people in a total of 25 proceedings before the Berlin Administrative Court. They all passed the test procedures of the German security authorities, had commitments to admission in Germany – and therefore left their homeland towards Pakistan.

For example, Mr. Hosseini was part of the Afghanistan federal recording program for people who are particularly at risk under the rule of the Taliban. According to his lawyers, he was granted a reception decision by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in February 2024. A security interview with the federal police also took place that a visa had been issued. Noorzai was already on a passenger list for a flight to Germany. Then everything was stopped.

The man said in the application: “Based on the reception commitment, this is classified by the defendant as particularly endangered in Afghanistan. An impending deportation to Afghanistan would be unreasonable and almost irreversible.” A “quick judicial intervention” is therefore necessary.

His lawyer Matthias Lehnert told him star: “The admission of these people is not a humanitarian blessing. The entry was guaranteed.” This responsibility must meet Germany.

At the beginning of June there was a glimmer of hope from the perspective of the waiting persons. Federal Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul (CDU) was asked in the Bundestag when people could come to Germany from Pakistan with admission to Germany. At the time, the CDU politician replied that he could “call a specific date”. “But where we have given admission commitments in a legally binding form, we naturally keep them.” But little has happened since then.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal State Department is currently examining how they deal with people from Afghanistan after the recording programs were suspended. The commitments to people are considered binding. At a request from the star However, it said: “The entry is still exposed to the end of this exam.” People are stuck.

Even Federal Ministry of the Interior confirmed that around half of the 2400 Afghans have already undergone all security checks. In the other half, individual steps are obviously missing. In the meantime, the ministry has also deducted the employees of the security authorities from Islamabad who were responsible for the exams. The official reason was the conflict between India and Pakistan, which is now suspended.

In government circles, questions about the possibility of fast charter flights are waved off. After all, the images would contradict all the asylum -political signals of the first few weeks: the end of all recording programs, the rejections at the limits, the right -wing tightening. This is also why the topic for the federal government is so sensitive: the old commitments stand against the new political intentions.

In the SPD there is now resistance to doing nothing. The SPD member of the Bundestag, Hakan Demir, is responsible for migration and asylum in his faction. Demir calls for the immediate entry of the people with admission commitments. “The recording programs for Afghanistan are discontinued,” said Demir the star. This is agreed with the coalition partner. “But Germany is in the word for all people with existing admission commitments. You have to come. Immediately. Not only after you have sued your right.”

The federal government could soon be legally forced to do so, at least with Mr. Hosseini and other plaintiffs. In mid -May, a first Afghan and her family at the Berlin Administrative Court had already filed a lawsuit for the handing over of a visa. A decision by the judges is expected shortly, according to their lawyers.

After all the complaints submitted on this day, further resolutions should follow promptly. Do you come in time for Mr. Hosseini? Nobody can say that.