- Anyone who lives in Germany should receive their German passport more quickly in the future.
- Naturalization will be possible after just five years instead of the previous eight.
- The Bundestag decided on a corresponding reform of citizenship law on Friday in Berlin.
With “special integration services”, naturalization is even possible after three years. This could be particularly good performance at school or work or civic engagement.
In addition, children of foreign parents will in future receive German citizenship at birth if one parent has lived legally in Germany for five years – previously this was the case after eight years.
Legend:
The way for faster naturalization was paved in the Bundestag in Berlin.
Imago
The traffic light factions SPD, Greens and FDP largely voted for it in the final vote, while the CDU/CSU and AfD voted against it. The traffic lights “stand for a colorful and open society,” explained Green MP Canan Bayram. Sharp criticism came from the CSU and the AfD.
The head of the CSU MPs in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, harshly condemned the decision. “Citizenship must be at the end of a successful integration process and not at the beginning,” he said.
New confession is added
Anyone who wants a German passport must be able to support themselves and those of their dependent relatives. The prerequisite for naturalization remains a commitment to the so-called free democratic basic order.
A new addition is the commitment “to Germany’s special historical responsibility for the unjust National Socialist rule and its consequences, in particular for the protection of Jewish life, as well as to the peaceful coexistence of peoples and the prohibition of waging a war of aggression”.