{"id":90524,"date":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/4135\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:00:00","slug":"4135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/4135","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s short-term residence permits prevent Palestinians from reuniting with their families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Palestinian-Syrian refugees who fled to Germany could not reunite with their families due to the provisional visas granted by the German authorities.<\/div>\n<div>The German Temporary Protection Law suspended granting three-year residence permits, banning holders of short-term visas from reuniting with their families, and receiving school loans. According to the new rules, permanent residence permits and silver passports can only be granted after a minimum of a five-year stay.<\/div>\n<div>Observers attributed the restrictions to the unpersuasive character of the arguments provided by the asylum-seeker while defending his\/her case before an investigator or a judge. Convincing arguments included the presence of death risks due to warfare, destruction, displacement from flashpoints, and sickness. The asylum-seeker is also required to give a detailed account of his\/her trip to European countries with specific dates for each and every stopover, all expected to be provided in a self-assured tone.<\/div>\n<div>Human rights experts recommend hiring a lawyer as soon as a shirt-term permit is issued so as to file an appeal against the court rule, which outlaws family reunification for two years and bans the passage to another province.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Several Palestinian refugees were granted three-year residence permits allowing the reunification with family following disagreements between the German government and courts.<\/div>\n<div>No official statistics are available on the exact number of Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Germany, classified as stateless by the German law.<\/div>\n<div>As a signatory to the Geneva Convention, Germany is bound to grant citizenship to stateless asylum-seekers based on the German Citizenship Law of 2000.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian-Syrian refugees who fled to Germany could not reunite with their families due to the provisional visas granted by the German authorities. The German Temporary Protection Law suspended granting three-year residence permits, banning holders of short-term visas from reuniting with their families, and receiving school loans. According to the new rules, permanent residence permits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}