Overview
- Germany’s Interior Ministry confirmed it is offering financial payments and support to Afghans in Pakistan with prior admission commitments if they permanently withdraw from the process.
- The packages vary by case, with reported examples including €2,750 in Pakistan plus about €11,500 in Afghanistan for a family of four, or €1,500 and €5,000 for an individual, alongside help with exit permits, medical care, travel, and three months of housing and basic support on arrival.
- The offers target people on the Menschenrechtsliste (about 60) and in the Überbrückungsprogramm (about 600), require decisions by November 17, and foreclose any future legal claims or reentry into the procedure.
- Roughly 2,100 people remain in Pakistan awaiting visas, and officials acknowledge it is not guaranteed their cases can be completed before the year‑end deportation pause agreed with Pakistan expires.
- Despite the broader halt to federal admission programs, administrative‑court rulings continue to force individual entries, with seven families—31 people—arriving in Hannover on Tuesday on the fourth such flight since the government change.