Germany is reforming its citizenship law, streamlining the procedure to get German nationality. Dual citizenship will also become an option.

The German government has presented its new citizenship law this Wednesday (23.08.2023). The legislation proposed by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser will make dual citizenship easier as well as naturalization for non-EU citizens.<

The new citizenship plans boil down to these changes:

  • Immigrants legally living in Germany will be allowed to apply for citizenship after five years, rather than the current eight; and if they have special achievements this can go down to only three years

  • Children born in Germany of at least one parent who has been living legally in the country for five or more years will automatically get German citizenship;

  • Immigrants above the age of 67 will be able to do an oral instead of a written German language test

  • Multiple citizenships will be allowed

People living entirely on state support will not be eligible for German citizenship. German citizenship will be denied to people who have committed antisemitic, racist, xenophobic or other defamatory offenses that are seen to be “unreconcilable with commitment to the free democratic basic order.”

The new legislation will be debated in parliament and could come into effect in the fall.<

      • Wirrvogel@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        No one “is” their citizenship or we would not have Reichsbürger that all have only one citizenship and shit on it.

        Also only naming Turkish people when it comes to dual citizenship but not having anything against, let’s say Americans with both says more about you than dual citizenship says about people who want it/already have it.

        And after Germany denying to be an immigration country for 80 years it is time that we as a country make clear “yes we want you as a citizen”. That many people haven’t committed to Germany, especially ones with Turkish roots stems a lot from us not having wanted them here for a very long time and expecting their parents or grand parents to go back. That’s why solely German speaking countries have the word “Gastarbeiter” (guest worker), there is no such word in other countries.

        That in Europe “immigrant” is such a bad word that some have invented the word “expat”, so they can live in a different country than they were born in and have citizenship in, but can distinguish themselves from pesky immigrants.

        I am very sure you have never talked to someone with dual citizenship, right? You just make up who they are and what they want and why they want dual citizenship in your mind. This is not the threat you think it is.