Germany said Thursday it would refrain from deporting members of China's mostly Muslim Uighur minority over human rights concerns, after admitting a Uighur man was sent back by mistake in April.
Despite high profile scandals in the past year, the number of refugees who have been unlawfully granted asylum is far lower than feared, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday.
An asylum seeker deported to Afghanistan this month will be returned to Germany, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the latest of a series of scandals surrounding Berlin's hardening migration policy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under pressure Sunday over a brewing scandal surrounding the office charged with processing more than a million asylum seekers who have arrived in the country since 2015.
A criminal syndicate helped Nigerian immigrants get residency by providing Berlin authorities with fake papers. The immigration authority reportedly ignored internal warnings and kept approving the applications.
Many refugees in the city of Bremen are worried that they could face deportation after a major scandal at the city’s immigration authority, where officials allegedly took bribes in return for offering asylum.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has said that he won’t spare reputations in his efforts to get to the bottom of a scandal that has hit public trust in the asylum process. What is the so-called 'Bamf affair'?
A senior member of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) sparked a heated discussion this week when he claimed that Germany has an “anti-deportation industry.” Did he have a point?
Following a scandal at the Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees (BAMF) Bremen branch, over 4,500 asylum cases will be re-examined and tougher policies put in place.
A senior official at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) allegedly granted asylum to more than 1,200 applicants without valid legal reasons for their approval. She has since been removed from her position.
So far this year more than 17,000 refugees have sued German authorities for not giving them full refugee status, with the vast majority winning their cases, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said Sunday his brother had sought asylum in Germany, after joining the mass migrant influx into the European Union last year.
If more than 500,000 refugees arrive in Germany this year the result will be continuing backlogs of undecided asylum applications, the country's top refugee official warned on Thursday.
A group of women at an emergency shelter in Cologne have accused the security personnel there of spying on them naked and even trying to blackmail them into sex.
The Interior Ministry on Tuesday said that there was no hard limit on the number of asylum applications to be processed in 2016, after a newspaper reported that it had set a limit of 500,000 - less than half the number that arrived in 2015.
A mess up in government bureaucracy led the government to inform a 20-month-old asylum seeker she had a week to leave the country - while the rest of her family seemed to be allowed to stay.
German authorities are struggling to process hundreds of thousands of asylum applications, the head of the country's refugee office admitted Friday, even though a record influx of migrants was finally slowing.
More than 200 people are suing the German government in North Rhine-Westphalia for taking too long to process their asylum applications, a survey by a newspaper showed on Wednesday.
Ministers rushed to defend the new head of the national refugee authority from attacks by leaders of Germany's federal states, saying he had only been in the position a few weeks and needed time to make a difference.
Around 700 of the 4,000 refugees who have been housed in Lower Saxony over the past week have gone missing and authorities mostly have no idea who or where they are.
Germany is open to using military aircraft to repatriate migrants whose requests for asylum have been rejected, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday.
German industry was initially eager to welcome the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving into the country - but
sceptical voices are being raised about the potential costs of the huge influx to Europe's biggest economy.
As the thermometer dips towards zero in Germany, thousands of asylum seekers spending their nights in tents are pleading for authorities to find them alternative housing.
