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Negative Entscheidungen im Asylverfahren

Negative decision in the asylum procedure

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The federal offices decision will be sent to you in writing in a yellow letter. If you have a legal adviser, your lawyer will receive the letters.

If you get a positive answer, you can stay – you will have to do now a lot of other bureaucratic stuff and may need some help from migration counselling offices, but you have a residency for a certain period in Germany.

There are 3 types of refusals:

Inadmissible - “Unzulässig”

In the case of Dublin rejections and a second asylum application “Folgeantrag”. You get more information about the Dublin-procedure here:

Dublin
A rejection as inadmissible means that your reasons for seeking asylum are not thoroughly examined and that Germany does not consider your asylum application necessary.
You have 7 days to file a complaint (“Klage”) and an urgent application (“Eilantrag”). The complaint does not protect you from deportation. You must therefore also submit an urgent application for protection against deportation.

Simply unfounded - “abgelehnt”

The decision from the BAMF states: Your asylum application is rejected.
You have 2 weeks for a legal complaint (“Klage”). This complaint protects you from deportation until a decision is made by the court. That’s why you don’t need an urgent application (“Eilantrag”).

Manifestly unfounded - “Offensichtlich unbegründet”

  • You have 7 days to file a complaint (“Klage”) and an urgent application (“Eilantrag”). The complaint does not protect you from deportation. You must therefore also submit an urgent application for protection against deportation.

Every case is different. You need the help of an advice centre or a lawyer who is well versed in migration law. They need to examine your case carefully to see what your chances are.

The German asylum system is very complicated, so it is not possible to summarize all the information in a short flyer. Please use also the further information in our flyer:

Asylum Procedure

Free advice on the asylum procedure in saxony

You can find addresses for good counselling centres in Saxony on our contact overview .

If you cannot get help there, the counsellors will recommend specialised lawyers. Please decide on a counselling centre or inform a new counselling centre who has helped you with what so far. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to wait a few days or weeks for an appointment. So don’t wait too long if you need counselling, but make an appointment quickly. If there is a deadline for filing a complaint, it is best to tell or write to the counselling centre straight away. Please take all important documents (e.g. language course certificate, tenancy agreement, employment contract, medical reports) and all letters from German authorities with you.

Returning from Germany

If you want to leave Germany you can apply for support. Here you find more information in different languages. These are information from the german government.

We take a critical view of return assistance, as it does not work as Germany promises. On this page you will find a documentation and evaluation of experts about the return promotion: