Overview
- CDU/CSU and SPD plan to introduce a joint motion in the Bundestag’s interior committee today, with consideration planned in the Bundestag this week.
- The draft would insert two sentences into the Nationality Act to deem applications during the ban inadmissible and to set the ban at ten years.
- The measure is intended for applicants who cheated on the German language requirement, including those who used forged certificates.
- The ban would also apply when fraud is discovered only after a person has already been naturalised, according to CDU lawmaker Alexander Throm.
- The initiative follows federal police searches at language schools and other locations in Stuttgart, Heilbronn and Frankfurt, involving about 200 officers and 15 main suspects.