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Important information:

We have compiled templates that can be used in an emergency, i.e. in the event of an ongoing deportation. However, we recommend that applications and powers of attorney are drawn up by lawyers or advice centres in relation to the specific individual case. The templates are only available in German.

Objection to the search of your home

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The central immigration authority of a federal state organises the deportation, whilst the police carry it out.

In 2025, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the police require a search warrant from the local court to carry out deportations. Without such a warrant, you are not obliged to let them into your home. This also applies to rooms in accommodation facilities, camps or at your employer’s premises. The police may only enter your room without a search warrant if they see you running in or look through a window. If the police arrive without a search warrant, you can lodge an objection.

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Further information on: "police and deportation"

The police can pick you up for deportation in many places: at home, during official appointments, at work, or on the street. They may also go to family or friends if they know the address. Any address known to authorities (social welfare office, immigration office, BAMF, town hall) can be risky. The police can come at any time, usually very early in the morning. Often, deportation can no longer be stopped — you may have only a few hours before being put on a plane.

In this flyer, you’ll find information about what can be done during an ongoing deportation

Police outside the flat?

Stay calm and keep the lights off! Don’t open the door!
If the police can’t see that you’re there, they’ll have to leave.
You can also hide in a flatmate’s room and lock the door.
Then inform your lawyer or supporters as soon as possible. You need urgent counselling. If the police try once, they often come back soon and try again!

Police in the accommodation / camp?

Preparation counts!

Find out who has received a negative decision from the BAMF and is at risk of deportation.
Where are good hiding places in the camp that you can get to quickly?
Which social workers or security staff are good and can help? Talk to them!
Keep up to date with deportation dates! This way you know when the police might enter the camp. Information is available on Instagram, Facebook or Telegram, for example:

When the police enter the camp, those who are threatened with deportation should hide. Those who are not threatened can offer protection.
You should organise this in advance. Talk to the people in your accommodation. Many are afraid or worried about their own asylum procedure, but together you can prevent deportations: People who are not at risk of deportation can hide others. Many people could swap rooms. You can gather at the entrance during deportations to cause a disturbance and distract the police. You can warn each other with whistles.
Inform others about deportations and the behaviour of the police! Try to secretly make videos or audio recordings. Observe closely and write everything down afterwards.

The police pick you up from work:

You can explain to your colleagues that the police are not arresting you for a criminal offence, but that the police are often so forceful when it comes to deportations.
If your work can be a reason for a right to stay, ask your colleagues to email your employment contract, a current payslip or a letter of support to your lawyer or a supporter.

The police will pick you up from the authorities or at a roadside checkpoint:

If the risk of deportation is high, always take a friend or a supporter with you to an appointment and do not go alone. They can check for you outside the immigration office and in the clerk’s room to see if the police are there and warn you secretly.
If you cannot go to an appointment at an authority, you must cancel it. The best way to do this is to write an email to the authority on the day of the appointment. You should have an important reason (e.g. illness) and send proof (e.g. sick note from the doctor). If you miss an appointment without an excuse, the authorities can report you as a “fugitive” and put you on the wanted list. This means that the police can arrest you anywhere and you can also be taken into custody pending deportation more easily.
If the police arrest you, you have the right to call your lawyer or other supporters.

Please also report any attempted deportation to the deportation monitoring centre of the Saxon Refugee Council:

You can also find this section individually in the flyerpolice and deportation

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Urgent application

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An urgent appeal can be lodged with the administrative court against an ongoing deportation. This should definitely be done by the responsible lawyer! This template should only be used if there is no other option. It must be faxed to the administrative court, and it is best to telephone the court and the authorities involved, i.e. the regional court and the federal police, to inform them that an urgent appeal has been filed and that a deportation may have to be cancelled. An annex to the urgent application is also required, which must be written individually for the person/family concerned. This should explain in detail the reasons that speak against deportation. For example, a serious illness or a right to stay (e.g. education, sustainable integration) or that the family will be separated for a longer period of time, etc. As far as possible, these reasons should also be proven.

Power of attorney

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At best, lawyers or counselling centres are authorised. In an emergency, you can authorise a supporter or social worker. The power of attorney can help them to submit applications, speak to lawyers and authorities, or clarify urgent matters if the person concerned has already been picked up by the police or deported. Please discuss the scope of powers of attorney carefully and use them responsibly, authorising as much as necessary but as little as possible

Follow-up application for asylum

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This follow-up application should only be used if there is no lawyer or counselling centre and deportation is acutely imminent or even already underway. However, it must be signed by the person and faxed to the BAMF. Fax it to the branch office of the BAMF in your place of residence and to the centre. If the deportation is already underway: Inform a deportation monitoring centre and the Federal Police at the airport that a follow-up application has been submitted. The deportation must not start before the BAMF responds to this application. This is usually done by e-mail or telephone directly to the Federal Police.

Person of trust for detention pending deportation

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Persons affected by detention pending deportation can appoint a so-called person of trust in addition to or instead of a lawyer. The person of trust supports the person who is often unable to organise much in the deportation prison themselves. They can also lodge complaints against the detention centre on behalf of those affected and inspect files. The deportation detention contact group in Dresden provides voluntary counselling in deportation detention and is happy to provide support.

Abschiebehaftkontaktgruppe Dresden
Kontaktgruppe Asyl und Abschiebehaft e.V.
Dresden
kontakt@abschiebehaftkontaktgruppe.de
www.abschiebehaftkontaktgruppe.de
Instagram: @abschiebehaftkg_dresden
Counselling people in detention pending deportation in the deportation detention centre in Dresden

Affidavit [Eidesstattliche Versicherung]

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An affidavit is similar to a written witness statement in which you swear to tell the truth. You can use it as proof to the authorities. If you lie, you could face a fine or even imprisonment.