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Published on : 2021/01/21
Last year, Germany granted far fewer family reunifications for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection than would have been possible by legal means. However, according to a Left Party politician, this isn't entirely the fault of the COVID-19 lockdown.
A total of 5,311 relatives of beneficiaries of subsidiary protection have been granted visas to come to Germany under the family reunification program. This was reported as the response of the federal government to a parliamentary question submitted by the Left Party in the Bundestag (German Parliament) earlier.
In the fall of 2018, the German government had agreed that up to 1,000 people could join their families each month, capping the quota at 12,000 per year.