Anyone who has tried to book an appointment online with [the relevant organization] in recent weeks to book with the State Office for Immigration ( LEA ) or to submit an application for an extension of the Anyone who has applied for a residence permit may have experienced this firsthand: the application processes were inaccessible for days . This doesn't just affect follow-up applications after a previously granted permit. Visa , but also the extension of an existing one Residence...

A legally binding ruling from Lower Saxony is currently causing a stir far beyond the district borders . The Federal Court of Justice has upheld the appeal of a former employee of the The immigration office of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district rejected the appeal. This means it is now definitively clear: The man must serve the six-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed by the Lüneburg Regional Court. The court convicted him of bribery in 16 cases and accepting undue advantage because,...

9,663 people were deported from Germany in the first six months of 2026 – an average of more than 50 people per day. This information comes from a response by the German government to a parliamentary inquiry from the Left Party. Among those deported were over 1,900 women and around 1,350 minors. Most deportations were to Turkey, followed by Georgia and Algeria. Security escorts for these deportations alone cost the federal government €5.9 million in the first half of the year. What initially...