Overview

• The Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht, introduced in December 2022, provided an 18-month provisional residency pathway for over 82,000 long-term tolerated migrants in Germany.
• The program is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, with no plans for extension; a new system with stricter requirements is being proposed as its replacement.
• Critics, particularly from the AfD, have called for the immediate termination of the program, claiming it incentivizes identity fraud and undermines immigration controls.
• The proposed replacement would require higher language proficiency and stricter integration benchmarks, targeting only well-integrated individuals with verified identities.
• Approximately 5,970 participants in the current program had previously been classified as having unclear identities, highlighting ongoing challenges in identity verification.