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December 9, 2024
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) announced an immediate halt to decisions on asylum applications from Syrian citizens on December 9, 2024. An agency spokesperson justified this step with the current, confusing situation in Syria. The political developments are difficult to predict, making a serious assessment of individual grounds for asylum currently impossible. Every decision is currently "on shaky ground".
According to the BAMF, the decision affects around 47,270 still pending asylum applications from Syrians, of which about 46,000 are initial applications. Already completed asylum procedures and existing protection statuses remain unaffected by the suspension of decisions. The suspension of procedures therefore primarily affects people who are currently in the asylum process and waiting for a decision.
The BAMF's decision comes amid a reignited political debate about the future of Syrian refugees in Germany. While representatives of the Union parties are already suggesting the possibility of repatriations, politicians from the SPD and the Greens are urging restraint in view of the uncertain situation in Syria. The question of how to deal with Syrian refugees in the future is likely to significantly shape the political agenda in the coming weeks and months.
Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. According to the Federal Statistical Office, almost one million Syrian citizens were living in Germany at the end of 2023, around 711,000 of them with protected status. Syrians also represented the largest group of asylum seekers in 2024. According to the BAMF, almost 75,000 asylum applications were filed by Syrians by November, with over 83 percent of applicants receiving protected status. The majority of these (68,945 cases) received subsidiary protection, which is granted when neither asylum nor refugee protection applies, but the person concerned is at risk of serious harm in their country of origin.
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