Subsidiary protected refugees need to apply for identity documents in their respective Embassy. This is also true for Syrians. However, many fear the Gang there. The control uses mainly the Syrian government.
Dima A.,* is at a loss. The Syrian Embassy does not want to enter the young woman. For the past three years, the Syrian living in Germany, where she is enjoying subsidiary protection. Now her passport is expired. The new you must apply with their subsidiary Status in the Syrian Embassy.
Prior to that, she got scared, says Dima in an interview with DW. “Because first of all, I am a Kurd, and secondly, I have participated in directly after the start of the Revolution as an activist in demonstrations and sit-ins.” Repeatedly she had been arrested, the young woman. They, too, had been by the Regime always followed.
For this reason, you don’t want to go to the Embassy. “I’ve dealt with the Embassy in connection, however, not personally. Instead, I have asked someone else to do it for me.” You have asked whether it would be possible to have the passport by Post or other type will extend. “One of the rejected. They told me that my personal presence for this operation was essential.”
The evaluation of the Federal Ministry of the interior
As Dima is currently, many of the approximately 400,000 with subsidiary Status living in Germany to Syrian refugees. You have to fear to be in your home in case of a return, arrested, even if you have protested as Dima only peacefully against the Assad government. Of this regulation, those refugees who have obtained a protection status according to the Geneva refugee Convention are excluded.
Omnipresent: Syiens President Bashar al-Assad,
The Syrians fall under the General attitude of the Federal Ministry of the interior (BMI), according to which a subsidiary protected refugees can reasonably be expected, the necessary papers to apply to the respective Embassy of your home country or extend. It had held up to Berlin, all the länder. The Senate considered that the procedure generally, to be unreasonable, but to the General procedure.
To the right is the view of the BMI, however, have changed in the past years, explained the Ministry on request of the DW. “Once a difference in treatment of Syrian nationals with subsidiary protection status between the countries was nationally noticed, had asked the BMI, the countries in the spring of this year, by a uniform and legally compliant procedure. The test of reasonableness and the procurement of passports must be done, therefore, always, in individual cases, and should not be excluded in this case, the constellation in General. The standard of review and the procurement of passports for Syrian nationals with subsidiary protection status has not been thus compounded, and corresponds to, in the meantime, nationwide, the current legal situation.”
Previously the Foreign office had warned in a report on the situation to Syria, returning refugees would have to compute detention or indiscriminate torture. You would apply volatile “within the particular regime-affiliated security authorities […] as cowards and flag”. In the worst case, you are considered to be “supporters of terrorists” and be “a danger to life and limb.”
Terror EN war: scene from Aleppo in November 2017
Criticism of the current regime
Critics think that this arrangement is unreasonable. The Syrian Embassy in Berlin, working closely with the Syrian intelligence service, says Jens-Martin Rode “4syrebellion”, a Berlin-based group of Syrian and non-Syrian activists for human rights in Syria. This has consequences: “In each process of the message a safety inspection in Damascus.”
Problematic is also that of the Syrian state for the issue of a two years valid passport is officially more than 245 euros. “These costs flow naturally in cash directly to the Syrian state. Assuming approximately 400,000 Syrians with subsidiary protection status, and the amount is used, then three-digit million sums in the course of the years.” Add to this another Problem: Many Syrian refugees had found in Germany work, a part of it, is still dependent on transfers by Hartz IV. “That is to say: as Long as the current Situation in Syria is, ultimately, German taxpayers’ money directly to the Embassy of Assad and thus in a state which, because of its many crimes against humanity on international sanctions lists.”
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“4syrebellion” and other of the Syrian uprising, support groups have made in an Open letter to the Berlin interior Senator Andreas hostage on a further point: “All personal information will be stored in databases about the opposition, their families and their property in Syria. Many Refugees have good reasons for the Assad Regime to tell you where you are – even out of concern for Syria remaining members. With the request to renew the passport, will be revealed to your personal data, necessarily.”
Fatima D.* lived for four years with subsidiary protection in Germany. She has her passport twice already in the Embassy to extend. Fear of an Embassy visit, you do not have, explained Fatima. “The Federal office for Migration and refugees (BAMF) has asked me to do that. And as long as I’m in Germany, I’m going to assume that you will not cut off my head.”
The refugee-political spokeswoman of the Greens in the Bundestag, Luise Amtsberg, criticized the regulation, however, sharp. “It can’t be that the German authorities search the security of a Protection unnecessarily endanger and in addition, the financing of a terrorist take regime.”
*Name changed by the editors.