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Nuremberg (German news agency) – Federal Employment Agency board member Vanessa Ahuja is calling for a law to speed up the process alongside the Skilled Immigration Act. “But if only the legal framework is changed, but the administrative procedures are not simplified, not enough skilled workers will want to come to Germany,” she told the newspapers of the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland” (Friday editions).
A “digitization boost” is needed, she added, citing the complete digitization of the central register of foreigners as an example. This should be “expanded to become the leading digital platform into which every authority has to feed data, making an exchange of documents and information by other means between the authorities involved superfluous”. For example, a procedural acceleration law would be desirable. Ahuja believes that the immigration figure of 400,000 people per year can only be achieved with faster processes.
“In 2021 Germany already had an immigration balance of 330,000 people,” she said. In order to break the 400,000 mark, the administrative procedures would also have to be streamlined.