There are a lot of single men arriving in Germany from Syria (why they don't fight for their country is anyone's guess), and they had intended to bring their families over later as soon as they gained citizenship.
German official proposes
restricted Syrian asylum
status
Geir Moulson, Associated Press, Berlin | World | Sat, November 07 2015, 9:51 AM
Migrants signal to staff of the LaGeSo (State Office of Health and Welfare) how many seats they need for further transport with busses after they arrived at the train station in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Oct. 30. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
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Germany's interior minister said Friday he wants to give many Syrians arriving in the country a form of protection that falls short of full asylum and wouldn't allow them to bring relatives to Germany for two years.
The proposal by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere appeared to catch at least part of Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition by surprise and created new confusion over the government's crisis response.
De Maiziere's ministry said the idea was that Syrians who don't present authorities with evidence of individual persecution but are fleeing the civil war in general should be given "subsidiary protection," something that falls short of full asylum status but is granted to people who face serious risks in their homeland. While people with full asylum status get a three-year residence permit, those with "subsidiary protection" get a one-year permit that can be extended repeatedly.
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German official proposes restricted Syrian asylum status
German official proposes
restricted Syrian asylum
status
Geir Moulson, Associated Press, Berlin | World | Sat, November 07 2015, 9:51 AM
Migrants signal to staff of the LaGeSo (State Office of Health and Welfare) how many seats they need for further transport with busses after they arrived at the train station in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Oct. 30. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
World News
Germany's interior minister said Friday he wants to give many Syrians arriving in the country a form of protection that falls short of full asylum and wouldn't allow them to bring relatives to Germany for two years.
The proposal by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere appeared to catch at least part of Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition by surprise and created new confusion over the government's crisis response.
De Maiziere's ministry said the idea was that Syrians who don't present authorities with evidence of individual persecution but are fleeing the civil war in general should be given "subsidiary protection," something that falls short of full asylum status but is granted to people who face serious risks in their homeland. While people with full asylum status get a three-year residence permit, those with "subsidiary protection" get a one-year permit that can be extended repeatedly.
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German official proposes restricted Syrian asylum status
