Overview
- Through the end of November, the Interior Ministry counted 1,509 verified voluntary departures, about 560 more than in all of 2024.
- Interior Minister Armin Schuster says the rise reflects the effect of Saxony’s Landesausreisezentrum, including the impact of simply announcing placements there.
- Opened in June as a CDU–SPD pilot run by the state directorate in Dresden, the center concentrates people obliged to leave rather than dispersing them to municipalities.
- Residents face reporting rules with frequent presence checks and receive intensive return counseling, with the stated aim of faster repatriation for cases without immediate legal barriers.
- Since opening, the facility has housed 122 people; by mid-December 83 men were present, 13 were deported or transferred, and 10 left voluntarily, while broader deportations remain constrained by widespread Duldung status.