Germany’s interior ministry has confirmed that just 62 Afghans have accepted a government offer of several thousand euros to voluntarily withdraw from resettlement programs and waive a government pledge to fund their relocation to Europe.

In total, 90 percent of those approached have not taken up the offer.

According to ministry spokesperson Elena Singer, cited by Welt, about 1,900 Afghans in Pakistan have been promised asylum by Germany. Of these, 650 people were offered financial incentives. “So far, 10 percent of those contacted, which corresponds to 62 people, have declared their willingness to accept the offer,” Singer said. The large majority declined, and officials remain in contact with others still deciding, although the official deadline to accept the offer expired on Tuesday.

The payments were aimed at Afghans whose legal position the government considers weakest and whose admission approvals could still be revoked after lengthy reviews. As the interior ministry previously told the media, those eligible for the scheme were those who “cannot expect to be accepted in Germany.” The offer consisted of several thousand euros, medical support, psychological care, plus logistical support in exchange for dropping out of the schemes.

The CDU-led coalition government in Berlin halted the resettlement program for particularly vulnerable Afghans in May, although the German courts have continued to rule that the government is obliged to honor commitments made to Afghan nationals by the previous administration.

Eva Beyer, spokeswoman for the aid group Kabul Airlift, previously told Focus that only “a maximum of five families” had agreed to drop out of the program in exchange for taxpayer cash. She said those who did accept did so only after securing visas for other countries.

More than 2,000 Afghan nationals remain stranded in Afghanistan and Pakistan awaiting relocation under various protection schemes launched after the Taliban takeover in 2021. Although the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition suspended admissions in May, some flights have continued due to binding court rulings.

In a landmark case earlier this year, the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that an admission granted to an Afghan woman and her 13 family members was legally binding and could not be revoked, ordering the foreign ministry to act immediately. The government later withdrew its appeal, finalizing the judgment.

Officials say the suspension was triggered by “security and procedural concerns,” following reports that only one in eight Afghans admitted under special programs had undergone full security vetting before arrival, and that more than 31,000 Afghans entered Germany without complete background checks.

The federal police union DPolG previously called for a full halt to flights, citing identity-verification failures and terrorism concerns. “The current procedure, in which travel documents are issued despite identities not being fully verified, is highly risky and irresponsible,” its chairman, Heiko Teggatz, said in March.

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