FDP on migration and integration

The FDP wants to consistently deport criminal offenders and people deemed security threats who have no grounds for protection, while securing permanent residency for well-integrated people with tolerated status. Legal routes for immigration are to be opened and irregular migration stopped.

The FDP wants to deport offenders who have no right to protection. People who are well integrated and work should be allowed to stay. There should be more legal ways to come to Germany. The FDP wants to stop unregulated immigration.

Together with the federal government, the FDP plans a return drive using pre-deportation detention, departure custody and the support of the federal police. Through the Bundesrat, it wants to bring about legal changes that give well-integrated people lasting legal certainty. Refugees are to receive language support and instruction in values from the start; the school-like program in state-run accommodation is to become standard everywhere. Support work for queer refugees is to be kept and strengthened.

The FDP wants to simplify immigration for skilled workers in order to address labor shortages. This includes a Blue Card for non-academic skilled workers as well, a points system with a Chancenkarte (opportunity card), and easier naturalization with multiple citizenship.

North Rhine-Westphalia lacks skilled workers. The FDP wants more skilled workers from abroad to be able to come. There should be a points system for this. Immigrants should also become citizens more easily and may keep two passports.

The central office for skilled immigration in Bonn is to become a service agency for the state's economy. Anyone with a regular employment contract on standard industry terms should be able to enter with a Blue Card even without a university degree. Plans include job fairs abroad with trades, mid-sized firms and industry, as well as migration agreements so that immigrants learn German and gain qualifications in their home country. Recognition of foreign vocational qualifications is to be improved. The FDP backs the federal government's corresponding plans.

The FDP wants to continue and expand the state's existing integration policy. People with an immigrant background are to receive tailored services, and the civil service is to open up interculturally.

The FDP wants to give better support to people with immigrant roots. Local offices should work closely together for this. There should be special offers for women and for founders. Public service jobs should be more open to immigrants.

At the core is municipal integration management, which links immigration and youth offices, naturalization authorities, school boards, employment agencies, job centers and welfare organizations. The program points to the Participation and Integration Strategy 2030 and to a legally fixed, inflation-adjusted minimum funding level of 130 million euros. Talent scouts are to support high-achieving young people while still in school. Plans also include culturally sensitive elder care and a 'House of the Immigration Society' in Cologne.