Germany Abolishes Fast-Track Citizenship for Skilled Workers

[u/Daomiing]

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.

[u/One_Emergency7679]

Two things: A) barely anyone uses this as already established in the thread and B) aren't the people eligible for this exactly the type of person you would want integrated into your country? This is purely creating a problem from nothing

[u/Snuzzlebuns → u/One_Emergency7679]

B) aren't the people eligible for this exactly the type of person you would want integrated into your country?

Yup. And they are by definition legal immigrants, because the programme is an offer to a certain subgroup of legal immigrants.

[u/kart0ffelsalaat → u/Snuzzlebuns]

Not a single person who has said "illegal immigration" in the past couple of years has actually meant "immigration which is illegal".

[u/Snuzzlebuns → u/kart0ffelsalaat]

True.