On the list of the dozen odd problems facing Germany and it's immigration episode....there's this laying there with appeals by folks who failed the visa process. Once BamF (the agency holding responsibility over visa paperwork) makes their decision....it means that you typically need to leave the country within X-number of days. Or you file an appeal, and wait.
The ARD network (Channel One from the public TV spectrum) had a short talk on this today.
Back in 2013, the courts didn't really have any cases facing it on asylum situations. Today? There are tens of thousands of cases sitting there. You could be looking at a full year of delay....maybe even on up to three years. The chances of beating the BamF decision? Some suggest there is a one-in-three chance of beating the process.
So over the weekend....the German Justice Minister....Katarina Barley...a SPD Party member....said that she wants to speed up asylum procedures with guideline sentences.
Her hype is that asylum appeals need to be settled 'quickly'. The process here, if you haven't figured it out...is that it's a state-by-state issue, and the appeals never touch the federal government itself. What the federal government has offered is more manpower, although no one really knows what'll happen once you clear the deck of these tens of thousands of asylum appeals. Would you have a judicial instrument with almost no caseload?
As for the appeals process? She could have gone the Seehoffer way and said that she'd enforce the Dublin Agreement, but that would have freaked out Merkel and the whole SPD Party. So this 'speed' talk? More or less just headline coverage and not much else.
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