Asylum in need and Helping Hands invited on June 17th. On the press conference and reported on the Federal Office of Foreign Affairs and Asylum (BFA) towards Syrian asylum entitlements and their family.
Kübra Atasoy, Chair of Asylum in Need, and Peter Marhold, Helping Hands, give an insight into concrete cases of people whose asylum procedures have been delayed, interrupted or decided in a targeted manner for months or years – despite acute need of protection. Dealing with these procedures is an example of a political practice in which the rule of law is secondary.
“Anyone who lets the BFA go through with these harassment today can suffer the same fate at the AMS, at the PVA, at the MA40 tomorrow,” warns Kübra Atasoy of the impending expansion of these guords of the authorities, not only on other countries of origin, but also other areas of law.
Politically motivated procedures: the state does not decide
The documented cases show that people who are legally in the procedure are systematically kept in a state of permanent uncertainty by non-decisions, non-decisions, lack of interrogation and arbitrary disclosure procedures.
This particularly affects families with children, single people, vulnerable with medical care needs and people who come from structurally endangered regions.
Ahmed family has been waiting for your asylum application since 2023 – despite chronic diseases of the parents and a child’s disability. The legal status of the entire family has been exposed to months. In the case of Mohamedan unattended minor with serious war injuries, the dismissal of his protection status is suddenly initiated after years of recognition – without a comprehensible justification.
Babies like LailaBorn in Austria, they are pushed into statuslessness because the BFA initiates the disclosure procedure against its parents – without a decision, without inspection, without a specific legal basis.
Systematic uncertainty instead of legal certainty
The only recognizable commonality between the documented cases is not “lack of integration” or “threat to public order”, but the fact that it is new family start -ups or that protection seekers try to perceive their rights to family reunification, naturalization or health care. The factual suspension of asylum procedures seems to follow the law less than a political calculation.
“If family reunification is to be blocked according to the NAG or citizenship procedure, the notification of the initiation of a refusal procedure can happen. This reason can be remedied-for example by submitting a B2 certificate in citizenship process-it is set again without comment. very much, ”says Peter Marhold von Helping Hands.
Asylum law is not an act of mercy. It is an individual legal right to protection against persecution, torture and inhumane treatment. Anyone who relativizes this claim because a person is not “sufficiently integrated” or does not provide “economic performance” leaves the soil under the rule of law.
The selective use of procedures, their conscious delay or blockade represents a systematic hollowing out of refugee protection – with real consequences for life and life.
We are calling for the new government to put pressure on the Ministry of the Interior and to remove the illegal suspension of the Syrian asylum procedures.
Asyl in Not and Helping Hands demand:
- Complete withdrawal of the suspension of Syrian asylum procedures and immediate decisions in ongoing asylum procedures
- Automatic initiation of disciplinary procedures for violations of the party belonging such as the refusal of inspection of files or accompanying legal representation
- Setting of unfounded disclosure procedures