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> against the fear

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> http://w2eu.info/germany.en/articles/germany-deportation-afghanistan.en.html
> 
> 
> Information against the fear:
> Germany will not easily change everything for refugees from Afghanistan
> – No mass-deportations are to be expected!
> 
> Update: 22.02.2016
> 
> Within the last weeks and months a lot of rumours have circulated
> concerning a worsening treatment of Afghan refugees in Germany. The
> biggest rumour is that there will be mass-deportations or even rumours
> that deportations already started. This is simply NOT TRUE.
> 
> What was actually happening is the following:
> 
> 1) At the beginning of February 2016 the German interior minister
> de Maizière visited Kabul, where he started negotiations with the Afghan
> government to facilitate returns to Afghanistan. Afterwards the German
> interior ministry started to give several public statements that they
> plan to enforce returns to Afghanistan, because of the stabilized
> security situation (which is a clear contradiction to the estimations of
> the exterior ministry of Germany, who see the security situation as
> worse then before and plan to send more German military to Afghanistan).
> On the same day another bomb-blast with at least 20 dead scattered Kabul
> (one of the safe places in the country de Maizière was talking about).
> 
> 2) Since yesterday, 21st of February in Idomeni the
> Greek-Macedonian border was closed for Afghans, stating that they are
> not coming from a war-zone. Only Syrians and Iraqis are still allowed to
> pass. Already now, people started marching towards the border and we
> expect another series of struggle to open the border in Idomeni again,
> because many people arrived within the last week and there are still
> very high numbers of people on the move, so we expect it will be very
> difficult for the authorities to keep this border closed.
> 
> 3) Tomorrow, the 23rd of February there is a charter-airplane
> leaving Frankfurt/Germany going to Kabul. This is not a deportation
> charter, but an airplane full of people who “voluntarily” return to
> Afghanistan. There are approximately 150 people on this flight who have
> been collected from all over Germany and it is mainly people who
> withdrew their asylum application by themselves. We have the feeling
> this will be used another time to create fear and will be announced as
> the beginning of a wave of deportations to Afghanistan from Germany –
> which is simply not easy to happen.
> 
> The idea of the German government is very simple: they counted numbers.
> 60.000 asylum applications of Afghans in Germany in 2015. 30.000, so
> half of it only in the month of October. Many people are still on the
> way from Greece to here. We have the strong feeling that the charter to
> Kabul and the border-closure in Idomeni are steps in the same direction,
> most probably even coordinated to experiment with the fear of a whole
> group of refugees: the plan is the simple idea to create as much fear as
> possible to make people change their routes – or even to make them run
> forwards to other countries when they are already in Germany – or
> perhaps even to provoke voluntarily returns out of the fear of loosing
> too much time far away from relatives.
> 
> However, it still seems to be very difficult to get travel documents
> from the Afghan embassies if a person is not asking for these documents
> by there own will. This, added to the knowledge most people have now on
> how to stop a deportation, leads to a very small number of successful
> deportations from Germany to Afghanistan. It will be for sure important
> to make clear to the Afghan government that they should refuse to sign
> Readmission agreements that will be used against their own citizens.
> 
> We would like to join hands in order to not let them win with this idea
> of creating fear to terrorize people who have anyway enough problems.
> And we are very sure that, even though the situation may get worse, the
> chances to get a right to stay as an Afghan in Germany are still very
> high. As a whole, about 80% still finally get protection. Nevertheless,
> the procedure might become tougher in the future and it is definitely
> good to prepare yourself for the asylum procedure – and to find ways to
> understand changes and developments also to help others who are afraid.
> 
> Very important information: Before a deportation to Afghanistan happens
> the first thing will be a letter (“Abschiebebescheid”). No one will be
> deported to Afghanistan before the asylum procedure is finished and
> never ever before the interview was taken. So no deportation in the
> night without a warning before! In case you have fear because you have
> already only “Duldung” (without having been in a Dublin-procedure
> before), please come for counselling.
> 
> Some information useful for the asylum procedures for Afghan refugees:
> 
> 1) Finally (when we count also those who get protection via the
> court or after a Dublin-procedure) the rate of people who get a right to
> stay (refugee status or humanitarian protection) is for Afghans in
> Germany still quite high: about 80%. It can be that this goes a little
> bit down. If this happens there is mainly the young and healthy man
> without family here, from regions like Kabul for example that are
> considered to be relatively safe, who will be most affected. Especially
> for them there are a few hints what to do to get through the procedure
> successfully.
> 
> 2) It was and is always good to prepare for the asylum procedure
> and that is very easy, because you have to wait anyway long time for the
> interview. A few hints can help to get a better result:
> 
> a) Don’t use a special “case” in the interview which is too far
> away from your own reality. Mostly these are “cases” well known by the
> person who will do your interview. When you are accused to have lied it
> is very complicated to correct afterwards!
> 
> b) It is always good to first of all talk with someone before, who
> knows how it works and to go through your real case – most of you have
> experiences that can at least lead to a humanitarian protection!
> 
> c) Concerning family members: for young healthy men and also for
> unaccompanied minors who will turn 18 soon, family members in Kabul or
> other “safer” regions of Afghanistan, who you are regularly in contact
> with can be seen as people who could have enough money to support you
> after a possible return.
> 
> d) It is very important from the very beginning to document health
> problems by taking certificates from doctors. This concerns especially
> all kinds of psychological problems that can be a result of bad memories
> from Afghanistan or also from your journey to get out of there. Many of
> you know the symptoms: sleeplessness, bad dreams, headache-attacks,
> problems to concentrate etc. This is called “traumatisation” or
> “posttraumatic stress disorder” and it can help you in your asylum
> procedure, if you get medical/psychological certificates about this
> suffering.
> 
> e) Afghan Passports and IDs: it is always good to present a
> passport only after you have a decision about your asylum case. A
> deportation in case of a negative decision is only possible when there
> is a travel document. Up to now the afghan embassies seem not to be
> willing to give passports against your own will. This might change at
> one point of time, but up to now we didn’t hear that this happened.
> Before presenting a passport it is always good to check for counselling
> and/or a lawyer.
> 
> 3) The asylum procedures are very long in Germany at the moment.
> That is a big problem, because waiting produces exhaustion. Waiting is
> especially hard for people who wait for the chance to reunite with
> family. But for those who have maybe a less good chance to win the right
> to stay already in the first round by the migration office (Bundesamt
> BAMF) this waiting time can be very very useful. If you use it for both,
> integration (learning language, finding jobs or education) and building
> a network of friends who will fight for your right to stay together with
> you, the longer it takes the better it is. There is a second way: even
> if the asylum procedure fails and you have negative until the end, there
> is also the option via “Petition” and “Härtefall” to get a right to stay
> based on integration. It becomes complicated to defend a person from
> deportation especially if he is accused for criminal offences and this
> can close the way to “Härtefallkomission” if the sentence is too high.
> So: be careful with drugs (dealing) and with all kind of things that can
> lead to higher sentences/fines.
> 
> 4) What we can imagine is that in very few cases the authorities
> could try to set an example to create more fear for all others. That is
> why we would propose to stand close together and to talk with each other
> in case you face problems like a negative decision, to be able to plan
> the next steps and to defend the person who is most threatened. We have
> the experience that we can stop deportations and if we stand together it
> takes sometimes long, but finally a right to stay is something you can
> fight for – and we should stand close together. Until the last moment it
> is still possible to stop a deportation. You can find more ideas on how
> to do that here:
> http://w2eu.info/germany.en/articles/germany-deportation.en.html
> (english including PDF for printing in several languages) and
> http://w2eu.info/germany.fa/articles/germany-deportation.fa.html (farsi).
> 
> 5) In case you think about leaving Germany and going to another
> country it can be very helpful to think about it twice to avoid coming
> into an even worse situation. There is a lot of information and useful
> contacts here: http://w2eu.info/ and it is very useful to ask for advice
> BEFORE going, so that you know what it is important to have in mind. In
> many cases, especially when people are already for some time here and
> registered, it will be much easier and quicker to fight for a right to
> stay in Germany than in a second country – especially as there can be
> also Dublin-deportations to Germany.
> 
> 
> We would propose the following:
> 
> 1) Everybody should help to stop the rumours and the false
> information. If you can, please translate this information into Farsi
> and Pashto and copy it and give it to all friends.
> 
> 2) Prepare for your asylum case.
> 
> 3) Let’s join hands to ask for better integration-options – like
> more and better access for language courses also for those who have not
> yet found the possibility to learn.
> 
> Against the fear: right to stay for everybody!