Afghanistan, July 24 -- Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the government cannot collectively cancel previously issued resettlement commitments to Afghan nationals and must assess each affected case individually.
The ruling followed a complaint by an Afghan woman and her two sons, who had been selected for relocation to Germany under the country's humanitarian admission program after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The court ruled that the Interior Ministry's decision in December 2025 to end the program and cancel about 640 remaining commitments without examining the individual circumstances of those affected violated the constitutional prohibition against arbitrary state action.
The judges said t...