Significant difficulties face the Palestinian-Syrian asylum seekers in Europe.

Palestinian-Syrians asylum seekers in Germany who fled the war in Syria are facing major difficulties which have been spotted by the AGPS, the most prominent obstacles are:
Most of the refugees are sent to far suburban camps, and some of them were put in tents or in large groups in stadiums with shared bathrooms and common sleeping areas which considered as big problems for the refugees, also, the long waiting periods before considering their asylum files.
Others complain about the difficulties of finding houses to rent and the exploitation of some agents, added to the delays in some provinces to grant the passport and residence permit for more than 8 months.
One of the most prominent problems faced by refugees in Germany is the language problem, and the failure to provide interpreters for conducting the affairs of refugees after obtaining residence permission, and requiring the elderly refugees to join German language courses even though if they were illiterate.
Also, the Palestinian children and their families suffer from the problematics of integration programs they are forced to attend, particularly the gender-mixed swimming lessons which considered to be against their traditions and morals.
Moreover, the refugees suffer from the high cost of transportation, and poor communication among them because of the spacing distances, as well as from the absence of a representatives and the community representation to relay on and to acquaint them to societies in which they live. Also, the difficulty of reunion with families in Syria via embassies in Lebanon or Turkey, because Turkey to prevent their entry and stresses in Lebanon as well.

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