German Immigration News

An online form can be filled out in ten minutes, an upload portal set up in an afternoon. And yet, months later, the application sits unprocessed at the immigration office – or the embassy rejects the visa with a justification that no one in the company can understand. Attorney Mirko Vorreuter, a specialist in immigration law at VisaGuard, discussed precisely this gap between digital efficiency and the actual administrative reality in the Legal Tech Directory podcast. The epi

He was born in Heilbronn in 2002, grew up there, and has never lived in another country. A German He never possessed a passport , however – and that is precisely what now determines his future. With a ruling dated September 17, 2026 (Case No. 11 S 1326/26), the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg upheld the deportation of the so-called "Wollhaus speeder ." After serving his sentence, he is to be deported to Turkey – a country where he has never lived. This case clearl

Anyone researching visas for Germany rarely reads in a relaxed manner. Usually, an appointment with the immigration office is looming, an employment contract awaits signature, or the HR department needs a reliable assessment by Friday. It's precisely in these moments that a website needs to function: quickly, clearly, and with accurate content. Therefore, we've spent the last few weeks intensively reviewing our own online presence and implementing numerous changes. In this ar

At the end of last week, it was revealed that the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office, together with the Federal Criminal Police Office , is investigating 32 suspects who allegedly used forged documents to claim descent from Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in order to obtain German citizenship. to fraudulently obtain citizenship . According to research by "Der Spiegel," a large proportion of the suspects come from China. The actual descendants of the affected Jewish ci

In a ZDF summer interview in 2026, AfD leader Alice Weidel caused a stir with a figure: 306,000 of those naturalized in 2025 were unemployed. Based on the total of 332,500 naturalizations that year, this would theoretically represent around 92 percent. For foreign skilled workers, students, and companies considering naturalization themselves or currently in the process, this initially sounds alarming. Anyone hearing such figures rightly questions how seriously the German stat

There was a lot of rumor and whispering, and now it's finally here: the #Ausländerbehördenquartett - the satirical card game about the everyday madness that prevails in the German migration administration. What is the #ForeignOfficeQuartet? The Immigration Office Quartet is a satirical card game for adults, invented and produced by the lawyers at VISAGUARD – experts in migration law. With affectionate exaggeration and pointed humor, it pokes fun at the processes, absurdit