What do the parties say on migration and integration?

The AfD wants foreign nationals to receive Bürgergeld (citizen's income) only after at least ten years of regular employment in Germany, and then for no more than one year. Refugees from Ukraine would again receive benefits at the level of asylum seekers.

The AfD wants to limit Bürgergeld for foreigners. They should first have worked in Germany for 10 years. Then they should get it for 1 year at most. Refugees from Ukraine should no longer get Bürgergeld. They should get the same as asylum seekers.

The AfD wants Germany to stop taking part in the EU's common asylum policy, following Denmark's example. It considers the Common European Asylum System a failure. Decisions on immigration would be made at the national level alone.

The EU has shared rules for asylum. The AfD no longer wants to take part in them. Denmark already does it this way. Germany alone would decide who may come.

The AfD wants to control Germany's national borders again and turn back people without permission to enter. The Federal Police would serve as the border authority. In the platform's view, controls and refusals of entry are a self-evident right of sovereign states.

The AfD wants to control Germany's borders again. The Federal Police would do this job. People who are not allowed in would have to turn back at the border. Commuters, tourists, and goods would still cross the border.

The AfD wants to replace the individual constitutional right to asylum with an institutional guarantee or an ordinary statute. It also wants to withdraw from the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact and to initiate reforms of the Geneva Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Today every persecuted person has their own right to asylum. The AfD wants to change that. Asylum would no longer be a personal basic right. The AfD also wants to quit two United Nations agreements. It wants to change other international treaties.

The AfD wants asylum and protection applications to be filed and decided abroad in the future. It adds stricter requirements for applications, protection status, family reunification, and work. According to the platform, Germany has carried the heaviest burden of unauthorized immigration to Europe since 2015.

The AfD wants asylum claims to be checked outside Germany. Only people who prove who they are could apply. People who give false information would get no asylum. Stricter rules would also apply to family reunification and work.

The AfD rejects blanket quotas and distribution keys for immigrants at every level. The voluntary admission programs for Afghanistan and funding for civilian sea rescue in the Mediterranean would end.

The AfD wants no fixed numbers for taking in immigrants. It wants to stop the admission programs for Afghanistan. Private rescuers in the Mediterranean would get no more state money. Rescued people would be taken to North Africa.

The AfD wants asylum seekers to stay in central reception facilities for the entire duration of their case. Court proceedings on asylum are to be sped up, and additional staff is to work through the backlog.

The AfD wants faster asylum cases. Asylum seekers should live in central facilities during that time. The courts should get more staff. This should clear old cases faster.

The AfD wants to reduce benefits for asylum seekers, which it considers too high by international comparison and an incentive to come to Germany. Benefits in kind are to take priority, with a payment card as the fallback. Recognized asylum seekers would also no longer get immediate access to all social benefits.

The AfD says asylum seekers get too much money. It believes this draws people to Germany. They should get goods instead of cash. Otherwise they get a payment card. Recognized refugees should not get all benefits right away either.

The AfD wants to deport everyone who is required to leave the country and to scrap all rules that allow them to stay. In the platform's view, Duldung (temporary suspension of deportation) and new residence rights undermine the obligation to leave. Church asylum is also to be abolished.

The AfD wants to deport more people. This applies to everyone who must leave Germany. Special rules for staying should end. Church asylum should end too. That is when churches shelter people from deportation.

The AfD wants to return Syrians who, in its view, are no longer entitled to protection to their home country. It cites a 2024 ruling by the Higher Administrative Court in Münster and the fall of the Assad regime. The same approach is later to apply to other countries of origin.

The AfD wants to send many Syrians back to Syria. It says civilians there no longer face danger from civil war. Protection for many Syrians should therefore end. The state should also promote voluntary return.

The AfD demands that all migrants actively contribute to their own integration, above all through German skills at the B2 level and acceptance of the legal order. The country's capacity to integrate newcomers is to be restored by sharply limiting immigration.

The AfD wants migrants to do much for their own integration. They should learn German well, usually within 2 years. They should accept the rules in Germany. Anyone who drops a course should pay back the cost. Fewer new people should come to the country.

The AfD wants to go back to the citizenship law that applied until 1990. A person would then become German by descent from at least one German parent or through a discretionary decision by the authorities. The legal entitlement to naturalization and citizenship by birth in Germany would be abolished.

The AfD wants to make naturalization much harder. Children of foreigners should no longer become German by being born in Germany. Nobody should have a right to naturalization. The authorities should decide each case one by one. Naturalization should be possible after 10 years at the earliest.

The AfD wants to draw on domestic workers and bring back Germans who emigrated before admitting more skilled workers from outside Europe. After that, non-European workers would be selected according to need and strict criteria through a points system.

The AfD wants to find workers inside Germany first. German experts living abroad should come back. Only then should experts from outside Europe come. They would go through a points system. People with enough points may come.

The BSW wants people who enter Germany through a safe third country to have no right to stay, no asylum procedure and no social benefits. The party wants to keep the constitutional right to asylum for those in need of protection but says Germany needs a "breather."

Many refugees come to Germany through safe countries. The BSW says these people may not stay. They should not get an asylum procedure. They should not get money from the state either.

The BSW wants refugees who commit serious crimes to lose their claim to an asylum procedure and be deported, if necessary after amending the constitution. Deportations should be carried out consistently, and asylum procedures should normally end within three months.

Refugees who commit serious crimes should leave Germany. The BSW wants to change laws for this, even the constitution if needed. People with no right to stay should leave quickly. Asylum procedures should usually take only three months.

The BSW wants refugees with protection status to get into work faster and plans to expand language learning and adult education for this. On deportations, authorities should focus on people who are not integrated rather than on well-integrated immigrants.

Refugees with protection should be able to work sooner. For this they should learn German and be able to catch up on diplomas. Well-integrated people should not be deported first. Authorities should focus on the others.

The BSW wants to reform European asylum law and move asylum procedures to safe countries outside the EU where possible. The party wants to withdraw from the Global Compact for Migration as quickly as possible. In the platform's view, the current system feeds smugglers.

The BSW wants new asylum rules in Europe. Asylum procedures should take place outside the EU where possible. The BSW wants to leave the Global Compact for Migration. That is an agreement among many countries on migration.

The CDU and the CSU want to create a digital federal immigration agency that handles foreign skilled workers from recruitment through to the residence permit. Foreign vocational qualifications are to be recognized more simply and quickly. Asylum procedures are to be separated from immigration into the labor market.

The CDU and the CSU want to attract skilled workers from abroad. A new digital agency should do this. It takes care of everything: job, visa and residence. Qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster.

The CDU and the CSU want to turn back people at Germany's borders who arrive from another EU or Schengen country and want to apply for asylum. Border checks would continue for as long as the parties consider necessary. The stated goal is to stop irregular migration.

The CDU and the CSU want to keep checking Germany's borders. People who come from another EU country and want asylum may not enter. Police will send these people back. The parties want to take in fewer people this way.

The CDU and the CSU want to suspend family reunification for people with subsidiary protection and end all voluntary admission programs. At the EU level, they want subsidiary protection status to be abolished.

Some refugees have a limited form of protection. It is called subsidiary protection. They should no longer be allowed to bring their families. Germany should also stop taking in people voluntarily. The CDU and the CSU want to abolish this protection across Europe.

The CDU and the CSU want to prioritize in-kind benefits over cash and introduce the payment card in every state. People required to leave the country would get only a minimum or no benefits at all. Newly arriving refugees from Ukraine would no longer receive Bürgergeld (citizen's income).

Asylum seekers should get less cash. Instead they get goods and a payment card. People who must leave Germany should get only the bare minimum. New refugees from Ukraine should no longer get Bürgergeld, a basic welfare payment. They should find work quickly.

The CDU and the CSU want to raise the number of deportations through a dedicated law and deport people to Afghanistan and Syria on a regular basis. Offenders and people deemed a security threat who are required to leave could be held in open-ended pre-departure detention after serving their sentence. More countries would be classified as safe countries of origin.

People with no right to protection must leave Germany. The CDU and the CSU want to deport more people. This should also include Afghanistan and Syria. Criminals should stay locked up after prison until they leave. The federal police should get more powers for this.

The CDU and the CSU want to launch an EU asylum reform: anyone who applies for asylum in Europe would be transferred to a safe country outside the EU and have their case processed there. After that, the parties want to admit a limited number of people in need of protection each year directly from abroad.

The CDU and the CSU want to change asylum law in Europe. Asylum cases should be handled in safe countries outside Europe. People who are accepted should get protection there. Germany should then take in a fixed number of people each year.

The CDU and the CSU want much stronger protection of the EU's external borders, including physical barriers and technology. The border agency Frontex is to get more staff and sovereign powers of its own. In the long run this is meant to make checks at borders inside the EU unnecessary.

The CDU and the CSU want to protect the EU's outer borders better. This includes fences and technology. Frontex is the EU's border agency. It should get more staff and more powers. Checks between EU countries should end later.

The CDU and the CSU want to define and enforce a Leitkultur (guiding culture) and demand integration more firmly than before. Recognized refugees are to receive mandatory integration agreements. The platform argues that a diverse society needs binding rules.

The CDU and the CSU want a guiding culture for Germany. That means shared values that apply to everyone. Immigrants should commit to these values. Recognized refugees should get fixed agreements on integration. There should be many German classes.

The CDU and the CSU want to abolish naturalization after three years of residence and the general option of dual citizenship. In their view, citizenship comes at the end of successful integration.

Today some people can become German after only three years. The CDU and the CSU want to end that. Holding two passports should no longer be generally allowed. People who want to become German must speak German well and have work.

The FDP wants to attract more workers from abroad and simplify procedures. All rules on immigration and asylum would be gathered in one legal code, and labor migrants would deal with only one agency. The Blue Card would also be open to skilled workers without a university degree.

The FDP wants more workers from abroad. They should deal with only one office. All rules should be in one law book. The Blue Card should cover more skilled workers. The Blue Card is an EU work permit.

The FDP wants to take recognized refugees, including those from Ukraine, out of Bürgergeld (citizen's income) and give them a separate status. It would combine more help with finding work and lower benefits. People obliged to leave the country would generally get no more support.

The FDP wants to stop paying Bürgergeld to refugees. Bürgergeld is the basic welfare benefit. Refugees would get their own, lower benefit. They would get more help finding work. People who must leave would mostly get no money.

The FDP wants people without a right to stay to leave Germany quickly and wants to concentrate responsibility for deportations at the federal level. Family reunification for people with subsidiary protection would be suspended. Turning people back at the borders would be tested as a pilot.

The FDP wants to limit migration without permission. The federal government should handle deportations. Some refugees could not bring their families for now. The FDP wants to test turning people back at the border. Asylum procedures should be faster.

The FDP wants to separate language courses from integration courses and review how well the existing courses work. Citizenship should come only after successful integration and stay tied to earning one's own living and accepting the values of the constitution.

The FDP wants to split language courses and integration courses. The courses should mainly prepare people for work. Only well-integrated people should get a German passport. They must earn their own money.

The Free Voters want refugees to be able to finish their vocational training and then work for two years before their residence status is reassessed. This is meant to give businesses planning certainty.

Some refugees are doing vocational training. The Free Voters want them to be allowed to finish it. After that they should be able to work for two years. Only then does the state check again whether they may stay.

The Free Voters call for a joint European border force that secures the entire EU external border and turns back irregular migration. Until that works, the Federal Police are to turn people back at Germany's borders.

The Free Voters want a shared border force for Europe. It should protect the outer borders of the EU. All EU countries should pay for it. Until this works, the Federal Police should turn people back at German borders.

The Free Voters consider the Dublin system a failure and want it revised. They reject distributing refugees among EU states; instead, direct returns and refusals of entry should come first.

The Dublin rules say which EU country handles an asylum claim. The Free Voters want to change these rules. Refugees should not be shared out among EU countries. They should rather be sent back. Germany should make its rules stricter.

The Free Voters want to prevent people from drowning in the Mediterranean while having those rescued taken back while still at sea where possible. Private sea rescue is to be placed under EU border protection command or stopped.

No one should drown in the Mediterranean. Smuggler boats should not set out at all. Rescued people should be taken back quickly. Private rescue ships should follow EU border guards. Otherwise they should no longer be allowed to operate.

The Free Voters want immigration to follow the needs of European countries and to recruit workers in a targeted way. Integration is to follow the principle of support paired with obligations.

The Free Voters want immigration based on need. People should come for certain jobs. Immigrants should learn German. They should accept democracy. The state should support them in this.

The Free Voters want to prevent EU freedom of movement from leading to immigration into the German welfare system. Travel by non-EU benefit recipients is to be registered, and asylum seekers who voluntarily travel home would permanently lose their entitlements.

The Free Voters want less abuse of welfare benefits. A register should record trips by non-EU citizens who get benefits. Some asylum seekers travel to their home country by choice. They should then get no more support. This should apply forever.

The Free Voters demand that people classified as security threats and refugees who have committed crimes be deported or detained immediately. Anyone who commits serious or repeated offenses is to be made to leave Germany quickly.

Some people are seen by police as a serious threat. The Free Voters want to deport or lock them up at once. This should also apply to refugees who commit crimes. Some cannot be deported. They should be held in deportation detention.

The Free Voters want to write naturalization rules into the Basic Law so they can only be changed by a two-thirds majority. Naturalization would be possible after seven years at the earliest, and dual citizenship with non-EU countries would remain the exception.

The Free Voters want stricter rules for German citizenship. People should get it after 7 years at the earliest. They need good German for this. Two passports should be rare. The rules should be in the constitution.

The Free Voters want asylum applications examined in centers beyond the EU's external borders, where applicants stay during the procedure. In addition, the EU is to conclude readmission agreements with countries of origin jointly. The platform calls fast procedures and the return of rejected asylum seekers essential.

The Free Voters want asylum requests checked outside the EU. There should be centers there for this. People wait there for the decision. The EU should pay for the centers. The EU should also make deals with home countries. Then rejected people can return more easily.

The Free Voters want asylum to be claimable only in the first safe third country, and thus generally not in Germany. Anyone entering illegally or with smugglers would be barred from permanent residence. Legal entry routes are to be created for recruited immigrants to undercut the smugglers' business.

The Free Voters want to fight smugglers. Smugglers take people across borders illegally for money. People who enter illegally should not be allowed to stay for good. People should only ask for asylum in the first safe country. That is usually not Germany. There should be legal ways for recruited people.

The Greens want to speed up and simplify labor immigration. Work visas could be applied for online through a single office, and foreign vocational qualifications would be recognized more easily. Refugees would also find it easier to take up work.

The Greens want more skilled workers to come from abroad. They could apply for their visa online. Degrees from other countries would be accepted more easily. Refugees would also be able to work more easily.

The Greens want a federal participation act and a participation council to improve the inclusion of people with a migration background. Public agencies are to open up interculturally in staffing and structure so that state institutions reflect society's diversity.

Many people in Germany have roots in other countries. The Greens want them to have more say. A new law and a council should help with this. More different kinds of people should work in government offices. Nobody should be treated unfairly in hiring.

The Greens want to give victims of human trafficking a secure right to stay, even if they do not testify in criminal proceedings. Women who suffer violence and whose residence depends on their partner are to be able to get a residence permit of their own.

Some people are taken away and exploited. This is called human trafficking. The victims should be allowed to stay safely in Germany. They do not have to testify in court for this. Some women may only stay because of their husband. If there is violence, they should get their own right to stay.

The Greens want to keep the reformed citizenship law and ease access to naturalization for additional groups. The party rejects revoking German citizenship, pointing to the Basic Law.

The Greens want to keep the new citizenship law. Single parents and people with disabilities should also become German more easily. No one should lose their German passport again. People with two passports should have equal rights.

The Greens want to treat refugee protection and labor migration as fundamentally separate, while shaping the option to switch from the asylum track to a work-based residence. The party regards the Chancenaufenthaltsrecht (opportunity residence right) as a model for further reforms. An expert body is to advise on migration policy.

Some people come as refugees. Others come to work. The Greens want to allow a switch between the two paths. This is called a change of track. Well-integrated people should be able to stay. Experts should advise the government.

The Greens want to give cities and counties more, and more reliable, funding for receiving refugees. This includes language and integration courses right after arrival, more counseling, and a preference for decentralized housing.

Many towns struggle to take in refugees well. The Greens want to give them more money. Refugees should be able to start German classes right away. There should also be more advice services.

The Greens want tools like the payment card for asylum seekers to cut red tape and not get in the way of integration. Benefits must not fall below the constitutionally protected subsistence minimum, and everyone should have easy access to health care.

Refugees often get their money on a payment card. The Greens want this card not to make life harder. No one should get less than the basics needed to live. Everyone should be able to see a doctor easily.

The Greens want to scrap existing work bans for refugees and speed up procedures. Work permits would count as granted after a short deadline unless the immigration office objects. The platform sees language and work as the main driver of integration.

Some refugees are not allowed to work today. The Greens want to end these bans. If the office does not say no quickly, the permit counts as given. Foreign degrees should be easier to get recognized.

The Greens want to keep the individual right to asylum and Germany's protection duties under international law. They reject tightening measures that in their view only burden people seeking protection and hinder integration, and they favor fast and fair procedures.

Germany has a right to asylum. The Greens want to keep this right. They are against stricter asylum rules. Procedures should be fast and fair.

The Greens want to keep allowing family members to join refugees in Germany and remove existing restrictions. The platform argues that parents and children need each other, including for integration.

Refugees should be able to bring their family to Germany. The Greens want to remove the limits on this. Procedures should be faster. Relatives should no longer need a German test before they enter.

Under the platform, anyone who has no right to stay after review and all appeals should leave quickly, with voluntary return taking priority. The Greens rule out deportations to war and crisis zones, while serious offenders who are required to leave should be returned first.

Not everyone can stay in Germany. People with no right to stay should leave quickly. Leaving by choice is best. No one should be sent to a country at war. Serious criminals should be sent back first.

The Greens want a common European migration policy in which people seeking protection are distributed among member states on a binding basis. The EU asylum reform (GEAS/CEAS) is to be implemented in Germany in line with fundamental and human rights, without additional limits on asylum.

European countries should share refugees fairly. This should be a duty for all. The EU's new asylum rules should respect human rights. No one should be pushed back unlawfully at the outer borders.

The Greens oppose moving asylum procedures to countries outside the EU. Applications from people who arrive in the EU should be examined on their merits there. In the party's view, such schemes cost a lot of money and fail in court.

Some want asylum claims checked in countries outside Europe. The Greens are against this. People who arrive in the EU should get a procedure here. Every case should be checked one by one.

The Greens want more agreements with countries of origin and transit that open legal routes for training, study and work. In return, partner countries would take back their own nationals who have no right to stay. The platform argues that more regulated migration reduces irregular migration.

Germany should make deals with other countries. People from there can then come legally to work or learn. In return, these countries take back people who may not stay. This should mean fewer dangerous journeys.

The Greens call for a European, state-coordinated sea rescue effort in the Mediterranean and want to keep funding civilian rescue groups until then. Humanitarian admission programs are to open safe routes to Germany for people at particular risk.

Many refugees drown in the Mediterranean. The Greens want European states to organize rescue together. Until then, private rescuers should get money. People in great danger should be able to enter safely.

The Greens call on the state interior ministers to stop all deportations to Iran and all deportations of Yazidis nationwide. The program justifies this with the situation of women's rights in Iran and the suffering Yazidis experienced at the hands of ISIS.

The Greens want Germany to stop deporting people to Iran. Yazidis should not be deported either. Yazidis are a religious group. The terror group ISIS persecuted them. The German states should decide this together.

The Left wants refugees to be allowed to work without restriction from their first day. They should live in apartments rather than group shelters and receive cash instead of in-kind benefits or payment cards. Municipalities should get more federal money for hosting them.

Refugees should be allowed to work right away. They should live in normal apartments. They should get money and not a payment card. The federal government should pay towns and cities for the costs.

The Left wants to dissolve the EU border agency Frontex and replace it with a civilian European sea rescue program. Pushbacks, meaning turning people away without a procedure, should stop. The party points to the thousands who die at Europe's borders each year.

Frontex is the EU's border agency. The Left wants to shut Frontex down. Instead, the EU should rescue people at sea. Nobody should simply be sent back at the border.

The Left rejects all previous tightening of asylum law and the Common European Asylum System (GEAS/CEAS). Every person seeking protection should get an individual procedure with legal remedies, including at the EU's external borders. There should be no fast-track procedures or detention of people seeking protection.

The Left is against stricter asylum rules. It also rejects the EU's new asylum system. Every person should get their own asylum procedure. Nobody should be locked up for seeking asylum.

The Left wants safe and legal routes into the EU and would lift the visa requirement for people seeking protection. Climate impacts, environmental damage and poverty should also count as reasons for flight. Immigration law should no longer be based on origin or economic usefulness.

People fleeing should be able to reach the EU safely and legally. They should not need a visa for that. Poverty and climate damage should also count as reasons to flee. Places that take in refugees should get EU money.

The Left wants to give everyone who lives in Germany long-term the right to vote at all levels. After five years in the country, people would have a legal claim to citizenship regardless of income. People without secure residence status should be able to stay.

People who live in Germany for a long time should be allowed to vote. After five years, everyone should be able to become German. That should not depend on money. Children born here should be German right away.

The Left rejects deportations, especially to countries marked by war, persecution and misery. Deportation should also not be used as an additional punishment for offenders.

The Left is against deportations. Nobody should have to go back to a country with war or hardship. Offenders should not be deported either. They should get their punishment in Germany.

The ÖDP wants to make it easier to move from the asylum process into labor migration. The individual person should count, not the country of origin or the original reason for coming. Those who integrate quickly and support themselves should get a binding assurance of family reunification.

The ÖDP wants asylum seekers to be able to stay as workers more easily. The individual person matters, not the home country. People who settle in well and work may bring their family. Newcomers should be able to learn German and work right away.

The PdF wants to make it easier for qualified skilled workers from abroad to enter the German labor market. A simpler procedure is meant to attract workers in a targeted way without relying on large-scale recruitment.

The PdF wants skilled workers from abroad to come more easily. The process should be simpler. But the party does not want very large recruitment drives. Home countries should not lose all their skilled workers.

The PdF wants refugees to receive a work permit within ten days at most and to be placed in jobs as a priority. Language courses and the recognition of foreign qualifications are to be better aligned with this. According to the platform, this would speed up integration and relieve the welfare system.

Refugees should be allowed to work quickly. The permit should take 10 days at most. Language courses should take place outside working hours. Foreign qualifications should be accepted more easily.

The PdF wants to set up migration centers in safe third countries where asylum procedures take place outside Europe. This is meant to make procedures orderly and spare people seeking protection dangerous smuggling routes.

The PdF wants centers in safe countries outside Europe. People should apply for asylum there. Asylum means protection for persecuted people. Then they would not need dangerous routes with smugglers.

The PdF calls for a European asylum system based on solidarity that distributes asylum seekers across all EU states and supports countries at the external borders through a joint fund. At the same time, the external borders are to be monitored effectively and smugglers pursued across Europe.

All EU countries should take in asylum seekers. A shared fund should help countries at the EU border. The EU should watch its outer borders better. The countries should act together against smugglers.

The PdF wants to make social benefits for people seeking protection partly dependent on how far their integration has progressed. In addition, asylum seekers are to explicitly accept the basic values of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) when they apply.

Refugees should make an effort to integrate. Part of their benefits should depend on that. Language courses are one example. When applying for asylum, they should accept the values of the German constitution.

The PdF wants refugees to lose their right of residence if they commit crimes in Germany. It also stresses that asylum is in principle only temporary and ends when the reasons for fleeing no longer apply.

A refugee who commits a crime should not be allowed to stay. Asylum should only last for a certain time. Protection ends when the reasons for fleeing are gone. Then people should return home.

The SPD wants to develop the Skilled Immigration Act further, make it simpler to recognize foreign qualifications and digitize procedures. Refugees should be allowed to work as early as possible. Immigration must not lead to wage dumping, the platform says.

Germany needs skilled workers from abroad. The SPD wants to make the rules simpler. Foreign qualifications should be accepted more easily. Refugees should be allowed to work early. There should be more German classes.

The SPD wants to expand integration courses and fund them reliably. A new Partizipationsgesetz (participation law) is to use binding rules to ensure equal participation, for example in education, work and political decision-making.

The SPD wants to offer more integration courses. In them, immigrants learn German and how life in Germany works. The courses should get enough money. A new law should remove barriers. Immigrants should be able to take part equally everywhere.

The SPD wants skilled workers to be able to immigrate more easily and quickly because, in its view, the aging society needs immigration. Well-integrated refugees without protection status and without a criminal record are to be allowed to switch into skilled-worker immigration.

The SPD says Germany needs skilled workers from abroad. They should be able to come more easily and quickly. Their degrees should be recognized faster. Some refugees do not get protection. If they work and commit no crime, they should be allowed to stay.

The SPD wants to make asylum procedures much faster, both at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and in the administrative courts. Decisions are to be made within six months. Processes after arrival are also to become more centralized, digital and simple.

Asylum procedures should go faster. A decision should come within six months. For that, offices should work digitally. The immigration offices should get more support. People should be able to handle many things in one place.

The SPD stands by the individual right to asylum and wants to implement the Common European Asylum System with humanitarian standards and a distribution based on solidarity. It rejects border closures and blanket turn-backs at internal borders. Family reunification for people with subsidiary protection is to remain in place.

The SPD wants to keep the right to asylum. All EU countries should take in refugees. No one should be turned away wholesale at German borders. Border checks inside the EU should be an exception. Families of people with limited protection may still join them.

The SPD wants tighter control of the EU's external borders and consistent returns of people required to leave, preferably through voluntary departure. At the same time, rule-of-law and humane standards are to apply: it rejects pushbacks and moving asylum procedures to third countries.

The EU's outer borders should be controlled better. People who may not stay should leave. Ideally on their own. Otherwise the state deports them quickly, above all criminals. But asylum procedures should stay inside the EU.

The SPD wants to shield sea rescue from prosecution and also have the EU organize it as a state task. Safe and legal escape routes, admission programs and migration agreements are meant to prevent dangerous crossings. More development cooperation is to reduce the causes of flight.

The SPD wants people in distress at sea to be rescued. Rescuers should not be punished for it. The EU should rescue people too. There should be safe routes for refugees. Germany should help poor regions so fewer people have to flee.

The Tierschutzpartei wants Germany to take in more refugees than currently required and to create safe escape routes. Additional reasons for fleeing, such as climate impacts and violence against women, should count as grounds for asylum. Frontex should be replaced by a sea rescue agency.

Germany should take in more refugees. There should be safe routes for people who flee. Climate damage and violence against women should also count as reasons for asylum. The state should rescue people in the Mediterranean. The border agency Frontex should be closed.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects deportations and wants to abolish the classification of countries as safe countries of origin. It also rejects the payment card for refugees. Offenders should be held accountable in Germany.

The party is against deportations. Deportation means the state sends people back to their country. People who commit crimes should be punished here. The list of safe countries of origin should end. Refugees should have cash and their own bank account.

The Tierschutzpartei considers more immigration necessary to secure pensions and the labor market. Foreign qualifications should be recognized faster, and refugees should be allowed to work. They should live in decentralized housing rather than collective shelters.

The party says Germany needs more immigration. Degrees from other countries should be accepted faster. Refugees should be allowed to work. They should live in normal homes and not in large shelters. There should be German classes that fit their needs.

Volt wants to simplify and digitize immigration for workers and skilled professionals. Immigrants are to be allowed to work right away, whatever their residence status. The platform points to the labor shortage, which it says costs the economy more than 90 billion euros a year.

Volt wants to make it easier for people from abroad to work in Germany. They should be allowed to work from the first day. All forms should be available online in one place. The office should decide on a visa within three months.

Volt wants to abolish the Dublin III Regulation and distribute asylum seekers among EU countries according to fixed criteria. It also calls for a state-run European sea rescue service and for reversing the tightening of the Common European Asylum System.

Volt wants to change the asylum system in Europe. Today, the country where a person first arrives is often responsible. Volt wants to share people more fairly among all countries. Europe should rescue people at sea together. There should be no asylum procedures in camps at the borders.

Volt wants to make asylum procedures in Germany faster and fairer through free counseling and specialized court chambers. Especially vulnerable refugees should be able to enter directly and safely through resettlement, and people persecuted because of their gender should get more protection.

Volt wants to make asylum procedures in Germany faster. All asylum seekers should get free advice. Special sections at courts should handle the cases. People in great danger should be able to come to Germany safely. This is called resettlement.

Volt wants to create a new residence permit for people fleeing the effects of climate change and to recognize climate and environmental reasons in the asylum system. According to the program, this gives those affected a future and brings skilled workers to Germany.

Some people have to leave their homes because of climate change. Volt wants to give them a new residence permit. It is called the Climate Card or climate work visa. Young people from affected countries should be able to train in Germany. Volt says Germany also gains skilled workers this way.

Volt wants to let asylum seekers work from day one and to reorient immigration offices around a welcoming mission statement. Free German courses are to be available to everyone, regardless of residence status.

Volt wants asylum seekers to be allowed to work right away. Immigration offices should become friendlier and get a new name. German courses should be free for everyone. This also applies to people without a secure right to stay. Children should get language support starting in daycare.

Volt wants to offer people whose asylum application was rejected a so-called opportunity year (Chancenjahr). Those who work or contribute to society during that time should be able to obtain a residence permit.

Some asylum applications are rejected. Volt wants to give these people an opportunity year. During this year they may work. After that they can get a residence permit. People who find no job help with social tasks.

Volt wants to use deportations only as a last resort and exempt well-integrated people from them. The program justifies this by saying deportations are a severe intervention in the lives of those affected.

Volt wants fewer deportations. People who work, train or study should be allowed to stay. This only applies to people without a criminal record. Single women and children should not be sent to countries outside the EU. Volt wants to support voluntary return, but without pressure.