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German citizenship: Record number of naturalizations
2023-06-02
[DW] More people have applied for and been granted German nationality than at any time in the past 20 years. This is good news as the government wants to attract qualified professionals to the labor market.

A record 168,545 applicants with 171 different nationalities received German citizenship in 2022. That was 28% more than in the previous year, the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden reported this week.

Syrians topped the list, followed by Ukrainian, Iraqi and Ottoman Turkish nationals. Twenty-nine percent of people who adopted German nationality in 2022 were from Syria, their average age was 24.8 years, and two-thirds of them are male. Many of them had fled their homeland when the civil war broke out in 2014 and have since found a new home in Germany. Before naturalization, they had been in Germany for an average of 6.4 years.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  When I think 'qualified professionals', I always think of Syrian refugees first!
Posted by: Raj   2023-06-02 00:19  

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