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Germany grants citizenship to nearly 300,000 foreigners, led by Merkel's Syrians

2025-06-10 20:16:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Germany grants citizenship to nearly 300,000 foreigners, led by Merkel's

Germany granted citizenship to a record number of 291,955 people last year, a 46% increase from 2023, with Syrians making up the largest group, according to data released by the Federal Statistical Office on Tuesday.

Reforms in citizenship law contributed to the increase, the office said. Last June, Germany lowered its residency requirement for naturalization from eight years to five and even three in special cases.

Many Syrians who arrived as refugees during 2015 and 2016, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East, became eligible for naturalization during 2024.

As a result, they constituted the largest group of new citizens, accounting for 28% of all naturalizations, or 83,150 people, an increase of 10.1%. They were followed by Turks, Iraqis, Russians and Afghans, who represented 8%, 5%, 4% and 3% of the total, respectively.

Russians saw the biggest percentage increase in naturalizations, with the number rising to 12,980 in 2024 from 1,995 the previous year. The number of Turks who received German citizenship doubled to 22,525.

The new citizenship law also allows individuals to retain their original nationality while acquiring German citizenship, enabling tens of thousands of Turkish citizens - many of whom, or whose ancestors, came to Germany as guest workers in the 1960s and 1970s - to naturalize.

However, Germany's new coalition government of conservatives and social democrats plans to withdraw some of these measures and reinstate a minimum waiting period of five years for citizenship.

Conservatives have said citizenship should come at the end of a period of integration, not "initiate it immediately", and fear that shorter waiting times to become a German citizen could fuel increased migration and public discontent.


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