(de-news.net) – Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) has commissioned the development of a policy proposal intended to substantially accelerate asylum seekers’ access to the labor market. He indicated that the plan would authorize employment after three months of residence in Germany, even in cases where asylum procedures remain unresolved. Such a measure would represent a notablec departure from existing administrative practice, under which applicants were frequently subject to prolonged waiting periods before receiving permission to work. The initiative was presented as reflecting the government’s broader integration framework, which holds that early participation in the workforce constitutes the most effective mechanism for fostering social inclusion, economic self-sufficiency, and functional integration into the host society.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior has indicated that the proposed reform would expand access to employment across both full-time and part-time sectors while deliberately avoiding the introduction of any formal work requirement. Ministry representatives emphasized that employment status would remain institutionally separate from the legal evaluation of asylum claims, underscoring that labor participation would neither influence the procedural trajectory nor alter the final determination of protection eligibility. At the same time, the scope of eligibility would remain clearly delimited. Individuals whose asylum applications had already been rejected, as well as those who failed to cooperate with authorities—particularly through identity concealment or the misrepresentation of protection grounds—would be explicitly excluded from the policy’s benefits, thereby preserving compliance incentives within the asylum process.

Officials further clarified that although employed asylum seekers would ordinarily retain their earned income, such earnings would be taken into account when calculating eligibility for public assistance, including housing-related benefits and other forms of social support. This provision reflects the existing principle that state assistance is calibrated in relation to individual financial resources. In overall terms, the policy approach seeks to facilitate earlier economic participation while maintaining the procedural and legal autonomy of asylum adjudication, however promoting integration through employment access.