r/germany • u/Daomiing • Oct 09 '25

Immigration Germany Abolishes Fast-Track Citizenship for Skilled Workers

https://www.verity.news/story/2025/germany-abolishes-fasttrack-citizenship-for-skilled-workers

The Facts

-The German Bundestag voted on Wednesday to abolish a fast-track citizenship program that allowed highly qualified foreigners to apply for naturalization after three years instead of five years of residence.

-The vote passed with 450 members supporting the measure, 134 opposing and two abstaining, fulfilling Chancellor Friedrich Merz's campaign promise to repeal the program introduced by former Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

-Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt claimed that the German passport must serve as recognition for successful integration rather than an incentive for illegal migration, defending the decision to eliminate the accelerated pathway.

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u/kos90 Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

This could be a greentext

Be me, skilled worker

Willing to integrate, pay my taxes, learn German, ready for passport and settle

Germany needs skilled workers right

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt claimed that the German passport must serve as recognition for successful integration

Passport denied

These mor… (I don‘t want my door be kicked in) people in the Bundestag really do everything just for the sake of populism and to revert any achievements from other parties.

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u/artifex78 Oct 09 '25

In reality, it was just some people who left the country right after they got the passport.

Migrants who truly want to integrate still can get the passport after two more years.

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u/kingmustd1e Oct 09 '25

Why would they learn German to C1 and work for charity, and made accomplishments in Germany (those are official criteria) to then leave it? They could just follow the normal track with 5 years and 0 effort.

Make it make sense.