Asylum in Berlin

Registration

To be admitted as a refugee in Germany, you must first register as an asylum seeker with the State Office for Refugee Affairs (LAF).

The LAF maintains various locations within Berlin.

Application for asylum

Then submit your application for asylum to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

Registration as an asylum seeker takes place in two stages.

• On the first day your proof of arrival (ANKUNA) is created. He is the prerequisite for applying for asylum and receiving benefits. The proof of arrival records your fingerprints and your photo as well as name, birthday, origin and language.

• The following day you will be medically examined and receive your services.

Then submit your application for asylum to the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). The BAMF examines and decides all asylum applications filed in Germany. Neither the LAF nor other Berlin authorities can influence this decision.

Required Documents

Please bring with you all your identity documents and personal papers to register, so that your application can be processed quickly. The first reception center includes the authorities that are important for the asylum procedure.

Asylum procedures

To apply for asylum, you must be in Germany. An application for asylum can not be made to diplomatic missions of the Federal Republic of Germany. You must submit this application personally.

If you have been registered as an asylum seeker and have been assigned to the Land Berlin, you must submit your asylum application to one of the Berlin branch offices of the Federal Office for Migration (BAMF).

While your asylum procedure is being examined in Berlin, you have to live in a central reception center for about 3 months.

The asylum application will be accepted and you will shortly be given an appointment for an interview.

Here you must detail your personal reasons for leaving your home country.

There you will also hand in your proof of arrival and receive instead a Aufenthaltsgestattung the temporary. To renew you need an appointment with the immigration office. Please keep the Aufenthaltsgestattung carefully. Only with this document can you prove that you have applied for asylum. This is important z. B. at a police check.

Abode

You can not freely choose in which federal state your asylum application is processed. Upon registration, you will be assigned to one of the 16 German federal states in a computer-aided procedure. This is necessary in order to distribute the many protection seekers evenly in Germany and to process asylum applications as quickly as possible. Kinship is not a sufficient reason for a distribution to Berlin.

Services

You receive benefits to secure your livelihood during the duration of the asylum procedure.

These services include accommodation (accommodation in hostels), nutrition, medical assistance and clothing.

Rejection

General emergencies such as poverty, civil wars, natural disasters or lack of prospects are fundamentally excluded as grounds for granting asylum.

When entering via a safe third country, recognition as a person entitled to asylum is excluded.

Lack of information of the asylum seeker to the person.

Legal

Administrative decisions are opened against negative decisions of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

Penalty and fine regulations

With the criminal provisions in § 84, § 84a and § 85 AsylG the law belongs to Nebenstrafrecht.

It criminalizes the enticement of abusive asylum applications by third parties and the residence of the asylum seeker in a county other than the county assigned by the competent authority as a violation of the Residenzpflicht.