Hardening commission starts in eighth term in office

The Hardening Commission At the Ministry of Justice and for Migration Baden-Württemberg, on April 26, 2023, the first session of the eighth term came together. The state secretary Siegfried Lorek responsible for migration welcomed the members of the newly composed commission: "A humanitarian refugee policy must also reward special individual integration services and cushion humanitarian hardship. Success. "

The hardship commission was first set up in September 2005 and decides on humanitarian difficult special cases for which the immigration law does not offer a satisfactory solution. Klaus Pavel, former district administrator of the Ostalbkreis, was appointed chairman of the hardship commission in December 2019 and has been leading the committee since the beginning of 2020. At the beginning of today's meeting, Klaus Pavel said: "The commission is an important point of contact for people whose individual life situations and fates are not sufficiently recorded by the right of residence."

hardship commission consists of ten members

The hardship commission consists of ten members and a deputy member. The term of office of the members and deputy members is two and a half years. As part of the constituent meeting, Mayor was passed out of the Commission on the service of Jürgen Hofer. Jürgen Hofer has been a deputy chairman since it was founded in 2005 and took over the office of chairman in 2019. "As a veteran of the Commission, Jürgen Hofer has shaped her work from the start. I would like to thank him for his many years of commitment and tireless efforts," Siegfried Lorek praised Jürgen Hofers. In the past seventh term (two years and six months), almost 1,000 hardship inputs were received by the office. The Commission dealt with a total of 395 entries in 18 sessions.

The hardship commission decides on the basis of the legally regulated hardship regulation in § 23a Residence Act (AufenthG) . The decisions of the independent hardship commission are not contestable. In cases where urgent humanitarian or personal reasons, the Commission can judge the further presence of the foreigner in the federal territory, a request for hardship to the Ministry of Justice. This then decides whether a residence permit is granted due to the request.