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German lower house backs plan to halt refugee family reunification

  • On June 27, Germany's Bundestag approved a law that temporarily halts family reunification for migrants holding a form of temporary protection for a period of two years.
  • The legislation responds to integration limits in education, housing, and social systems amid public pressure and follows a 2018 policy capping reunification at 1,000 visas monthly.
  • Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt defended the measure, stating it reduces state burdens, deters human traffickers, and lowers immigration by about 12,000 annually.
  • About 388,000 people in Germany hold subsidiary protection, mostly Syrians, while critics call the measure merciless and question its symbolic impact on migration policy.
  • The bill fulfills Chancellor Merz's stricter immigration pledge but faces criticism and pending approval by the Bundesrat, affecting refugees without full asylum rights.
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Restrictions on family reunification, the right to asylum, the acquisition of nationality... The Finnish government is reviewing its reception system for refugees, foreigners with a residence permit or a work permit. In a country known to be open to migrants, this change of approach reflects the contradictions of Nordic societies.

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The SPD MP Rasha Nasr voted in the Bundestag for the suspension of the family reunification – although she considers the law "in terms of content" to be wrong. After the vote, she and fellow parliamentary groups "wept in the poor". On social media, Nasr now receives numerous death threats.

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He has suspended family reunifications for refugees and will stop financing NGOs that help migrants at sea

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In the Bundestag Union and SPD vote for the suspension of the family reunification subsidiary guardian for two years. The AfD also supports the draft law of the government coalition.

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epochtimes.de broke the news in on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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