They claim that they are not safe at home, but Afghan migrants in Germany go home on vacation.

German travel agencies help Afghan asylum seekers travel home illegally and then back to Germany . Every week, hundreds of Afghans travel home via Turkey and Iran starting from Hamburg, an employee of one of the travel agencies told the German RTL channel's report program Extra, which V4na.com observed.

Social media is increasingly showing content that Afghans living in Germany regularly go on holiday to their old homeland and post pictures of their experiences there - despite using the German taxpayers' money as an excuse that they are not safe in Afghanistan. Last year, about 400,000 people with Afghan citizenship lived in Germany, and about 60,000 of them have so-called blue passports. These special travel documents are issued to "asylum seekers" or "refugees" recognized in Germany to replace the passport of the country of origin. Passports state that their holder is not entitled to enter the country from which he fled. There are also Afghans who have a German residence permit but travel with their Afghan passport.

However, travel agencies and travelers themselves use a trick with the help of the Iranian authorities: so-called double-entry visas allow travel to Afghanistan with a stopover in Iran. Iran is indicated as the actual country of destination to the German authorities, for example when exiting and entering a German airport. The itinerary is then, for example, the following: Hamburg–Tehran–Kabul–Tehran–Hamburg.

the German authorities, visas are not pasted into passports as usual, but only a sheet of paper is inserted. In this way, the stamp of the authorities is not placed in the blue passport, but only on the paper sheet, which can be discarded in time before returning to Germany. The actual destination country, Afghanistan, thus remains hidden when re-entering Germany. In most cases, the German authorities are not even aware of this.

When asked whether the Federal Ministry of the Interior is aware of the trip home, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser explained to RTL:

"It's not our job, it's the local immigration authorities' job to prevent that."

Thorsten Frei, the vice-chairman of the internal and legal policy faction of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), sharply criticized the carelessness of the Ministry of the Interior and sees it as a sign that the Ministry of the Interior has absolutely no interest in recording the data, and even does not address the problem at all.

Heiko Teggatz, the president of the Federal Police Union, also harshly criticizes the Minister of the Interior: "It is incomprehensible to me how a visa that is not stamped in the passport, only printed on a disposable piece of paper, can be valid at all." Teggatz also noted that after this, the question legitimately arises, how do they check everything and everyone at airports and how do they guarantee the safety of people in Germany?

Cover image: Illustration / (MTI/EPA/Holger Hollemann)