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The Immigration Act provides the legal basis for controlling and limiting immigration in line with our economic, social and political interests. At the same time it offers all immigrants a basic package of measures to promote integration. The Act to Implement Residence- and Asylum-Related Directives of the European Union not only translated EU directives into German law, but also implemented the experience from the 2006 evaluation of the Immigration Act.
Labour migration
Highly skilled workers can settle permanently, self-employed persons may immigrate... >>
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Asylum procedure
The residence status of persons granted protection under the Geneva Convention on Refugees has been brought into line with that of persons entitled to asylum under the Basic Law... >>
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Residence titles
Residence titles include the (temporary) residence permit, the settlement permit and the EC long-term residence permit... >>
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EU harmonization
The Treaty of Amsterdam, which went into effect in 1999, gave the Community broad legislative authority in the field of asylum and immigration for the first time... >>
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Family reunification
The subsequent immigration of spouses to join their German or foreign partners usually requires a minimum age of 18 years of both spouses and a minimum level of German by the subsequently immigrating spouse ... >>
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Refugee
Better protection for victims of non-state and gender-specific persecution... >>
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Researchers
Globalization requires researchers to be more mobile... >>
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Integration
The Immigration Act is the first step towards a systematic policy of integration... >>
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Security
Foreigners may be deported on the basis of factual evidence of a potential threat... >>
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Administration
The German states (Länder) are responsible for implementing law on foreigners ... >>
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