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A German passport A German identity card is valid for travel to most European countries. Visa requirements for German citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Germany. As of 9 January 2024, German citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 194 countries and territories.
ETIAS is required for entry by land, air and sea to 30 European countries, including the 29 member states of the Schengen Area, as well as Cyprus. Ireland, which is part of the Common Travel Area, is the only member state of the European Union that continues to have its own visa policy and does not plan to join the Schengen Area or to require ETIAS.
The BAMF was alleged in 2018 to have accepted bribes for granting asylum and following these allegations 18,000 asylum approvals since 2000 [3] were to be reviewed. [4] The Bremen office was stripped of its authority to process applications [5] and 13 other offices are being investigated on suspicion of irregularities. [6]
The Berlin Immigration Office was founded in 2020 from the Ausländerbehörde which was until then a division of the Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO). [4] The 2020 reordering gave the Ausländerbehörde independent status as a state-level Landesamt [ de ] , a first among Germany's 16 states. [ 5 ]
The bill would have amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program completely, but did not pass. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) introduced the Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2009 on January 7, 2009. The bill would have doubled the number of diversity visas available to 110,000 yearly.
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BERLIN/PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) -Germany announced plans this week to extend controls to all its land borders and turn away more asylum seekers in a bid to reduce irregular migration in a shift ...
Immigration to Germany, both in the country's modern borders and the many political entities that preceded it, has occurred throughout the country's history. Today, Germany is one of the most popular destinations for immigrants in the world, with well over 1 million people moving there each year since 2013. [ 1 ]