The term 'safe country' often gets brought up in the German news, and I'll reference a ARD (public TV, Channel One) article from last night, to talk about this topic.
Once one comes into Germany and says he wants asylum....there's paperwork and an evaluation. At some point, they hit a avenue where the question is.....is it safe or dangerous in their homeland? If it's noted on the chart as dangerous.....they advance on. If the chart says safe, their application more or less stops right there, and it fails.
This topic comes up because of the deportation of the alleged Islamist Sami A. to Tunisia. Somewhere in the process, Tunisia has been classified as 'safe'.
Right now, the German government is working to make Algeria, Morocco and Georgia safe as well. Some folks are working to reverse this....just based on human rights (as seen in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).
About two years ago, there was a piece that discussed this safe and dangerous situation, and how you were just about guaranteed a 90-percent of passing if your homeland was dangerous, and a 90-percent chance of failing if your homeland was safe. If you had a degree or a skill in your background, then you could go the route of an immigrant and have a better chance of passing the visa.
The negative of this? People are basing some 'escape' from their homeland, with various scenarios attached to smugglers, with the understanding (whether valid or not) that it's virtually guaranteed that if they just make it to border of Germany....they get a visa. This is not reality. But they've reached a point where 'something is better than nothing'. In their mind, the idea of the paperwork and evaluation simply doesn't change matters.
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