BERLIN — Germany’s highest court delivered a significant ruling Friday, determining that the government acted improperly when it wiped out hundreds of promised spots for Afghan nationals in a special immigration program all at once.
The Federal Constitutional Court sided with an Afghan mother and her two minor children, who had been given assurances back in 2021 that they would be allowed to enter Germany through a program known as the “human rights list.”
According to the court, the Interior Ministry issued an order in December 2025 that cancelled roughly 640 of these admission promises in one sweeping action — without examining any of the individual cases. The judges determined that approach violated the constitutional prohibition against arbitrary government decisions.
The court’s ruling means the ministry must now go back and review each case on its own merits rather than applying a blanket cancellation across the board.
