Overview
- The Interior Ministry said the group landed on Friday and entered Germany via Berlin after flying from Pakistan.
- The federal program for particularly vulnerable Afghans was stopped in May, yet some applicants secured visas through lawsuits in Germany.
- The NGO Kabul Luftbrücke has assisted several applicants pursuing legal action to enforce their admission commitments.
- Many Afghan families with approvals have waited for months or years in Islamabad for onward travel to Germany.
- In December, about 650 people tied to a human-rights list and a bridging list received final rejections with offers of assistance, while reporting cites roughly 1,000 with promises in the federal program and smaller groups of local staff and others still pending.