The forcible immigrants to Germany did not realize that there were various residencies, but rather their concern was to reach a safe country after they had been displaced from their homes and the borders were closed without them.

The wave of asylum over the past years has shown shortcomings in Germany’s immigration laws, and their failure to achieve the supreme human goal, which is the refugee’s lack of feeling discrimination because of ethnic or religious affiliation, as well as assisting him in integrating into society and joining the labor market, and then obtaining the country’s citizenship.

However, the diversity of residence permits and the large number of refugees have produced an oppressed group, who enjoy the right of subsidiary protection.

What is this right?

Is there any hope of solving the problems related to them?

secondary protection

Secondary protection is granted to those whose asylum applications have not been accepted, and it is for a period of one year, to be renewed for those who prove that there is a danger awaiting him in his country, and after 5 years, the beneficiary of secondary protection is entitled to obtain permanent residence if some conditions are met, but this protection does not allow those who He enjoys obtaining a travel document, and he has no right to reunite with his family members.

The authorities also require the presence of a valid passport, and this is a special suffering for Syrians, as the holder is forced to go to the embassy of the regime and obtain a passport for two and a half years. The value of the non-urgent passport is 250 euros, and the urgent one is 660 euros, in addition to what the auditor is exposed to of provocations, and the state of psychological pain by paying money to support a regime that fled its brutality.

Violation of asylum laws

Mustafa Abu al-Khair, an Egyptian international law expert, said, in his response to Al Jazeera Net about the legality of secondary protection, that "secondary protection circumvents the right to asylum, and is not a correction to the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Right to Asylum, and in violation of the European Union's policy on asylum policy 2004, and is considered an escape." Among the obligations of the state is to grant asylum, as asylum is not a license in the hands of states to grant it, rather it is a right for those who meet the conditions.

He added, "Asylum is a right, and the law has the right in respect of which the legislator can only regulate how to obtain it, and states have no right to prevent or reduce it, and secondary protection in it detracts from the rights of the refugee."

Paradoxes that cause pain

No one can know how asylum residencies were granted to applicants for asylum. In the same family, you find the father enjoying the right of humanitarian asylum, and the wife with subsidiary protection. This is how Sumer al-Sabbagh responded to Al Jazeera Net’s question about his residency status contrary to that of his mother and sister, and added, “When the revolution broke out, I was A third-year student at the University of Aleppo, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and I came to Germany after we escaped from the brutality of the regime that slaughtered innocents, and from the indiscriminate bombing that affected everyone, and after a death journey that lasted more than a month, we arrived in Germany on November 30, 2014 I My disabled mother and my older sister, and after staying in asylum for about a year and 8 months, we obtained a residence permit for three years for my mother and sister, while I received temporary protection for a year. This matter prevented me from all my rights as a refugee, so I was no longer able to travel, move, or I propose a reunion to my fiancée."

There must be equal laws for refugees

Director of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Muhammad Kazem Hindawi, told Al Jazeera Net that "the most important problems of secondary protection holders are that they feel a great injustice because they are not equal to those who hold the right of asylum, and unfortunately there are those who hold refugee status and they are not fleeing from the oppression of the regime, and new laws must take into account the situation of these people. And work to abolish the status of protection, as there is suffering on the shoulders of its holders, such as the demand to renew Syrian passports as a condition for extending secondary protection, and if this requirement is not implemented, the refugee may be subjected to a material penalty sometimes amounting to 6 thousand euros, and this leads to The difficulty of obtaining permanent residence and German citizenship in the future.

Promises to end the suffering of the secondary protection campaign

The new German government seems to be working to end the problems of refugees and work to integrate them into German society, and there are promises made by the new Chancellor Olaf Schulz that spread hope in the hearts of all refugees, including those with subsidiary protection.

Ibrahim Al-Hamsh, a protection officer in Minchengladbach, a German of Syrian origin, explained to Al-Jazeera Net through his personal experience that the solution to the problem of the holder of secondary residence starts from the same person before he waits for the development of laws, as he mentions that he came to Germany in 2012 and continued to carry secondary protection, but It did not constitute a psychological obstacle for him until he obtained German citizenship.

Al-Hamsh said, "Since 2012 until today, the German state's treatment of asylum applicants has varied. The larger the wave of refugees, the faster decisions are made and the greater the leniency in granting refugee status, after deciding on an asylum application in previous decades took a period of more than two years in some Sometimes, deciding on the issue of asylum may take a period that may not exceed two weeks from the date of submitting the application.

He added, "Many factors affect German legislation towards refugees, and the German government in general learns from the lessons of the past and is keen to integrate refugees into the labor market. After the asylum application is approved, the refugee is sent to a language and integration course, and then the state helps him translate his certificate and documents, He is sent for vocational training to the labor market according to his specialization.