Contacts to responsible persons & supporters

Please contact a counselling centre near you and in your federal state. You can find these, for example, at Welcome to Europe in English, Arabic, French and Farsi:

or at the refugee councils of the federal states in German:

Advice centres in Saxony

Asylum procedure counselling

LGBTIAQ* (Asylum procedure counselling + “Duldung” - tolerated stay)

For people with tolerated stay (“Duldung”)

Saxony

Dresden

Leipzig

Information and contacts to the Hardship Commission (“Härtefallkommission”)

Deportation monitoring centres (“Abschiebebeobachtungsstellen”)

The aim of independent deportation monitoring is to identify structural abuses and contribute to the protection of fundamental and human rights. For example, they observe whether the means used by the police are appropriate to the situation. Deportation observers are not allowed to intervene.

Airport Halle / Leipzig

Airport Berlin-Brandenburg

Airport Frankfurt / Main

Airport Hamburg

Airport in NRW – Düsseldorf and Köln/Bonn

Airport in Munich

Federal police at the airports

If there are decisions that prevent deportation at short notice (see flyer Ongoing deportation ), the Federal Police at the airport must be informed at short notice by lawyers or supporters.

Here is an overview of some airport service centres of the Federal Police.

Airport Halle / Leipzig

Airport Berlin-Brandenburg

Airport Frankfurt / Main

Airport Hamburg

Airport in NRW – Düsseldorf and Köln/Bonn

Airport in Munich

If you enter ‘federal police (“Bundespolizei”) + airport + city’ in search engines (e.g. Google), you will find contact details for other airports online.

Contacts to authorities and courts

Contacts to the Saxon deportation authority (Landesdirektion Sachsen, LDS)

This authority organises most deportations from Saxony. These are important numbers to negotiate a deportation stop or to pass on important urgent information. Don’t be intimidated and insist on your rights!

You can find contacts for other federal states online by entering ‘Zentrale Ausländerbehörde + dein Bundesland’ in search engines.

Contacts to courts

Urgent applications against deportations are sent to the administrative courts. The competent administrative court depends on your address:

You can find contacts for other federal states online by entering ‘Verwaltungsgericht + place of residence of the person concerned’ in search engines (e.g. Google).

Contact to BAMF - Federal Office for Migration and Refugees

Together with the immigration authorities, the BAMF organises Dublin deportations, i.e. deportations to other countries in the European Union and to Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Legal reasons against a Dublin deportation should be sent to the BAMF. Follow-up asylum applications can also stop deportations. They must also be faxed to the BAMF.

If you are not sure which branch office is responsible and for applications from a prison, contact the BAMF centre:

Contacts in politics

In specific cases, it can be helpful to contact responsible actors in order to exert pressure or receive support to stop the deportation.

• Prime Minister of the federal state (“Ministerpräsident”)
• Ministry of the Interior of the federal state, possibly Department for Foreigners’ Affairs (“Innenministerium”)
• Ministry of Social Affairs / Integration Commissioner / Commissioner for Foreigners in your federal state / district (“Sozialministerium”, “Integrationsbeauftragte”, “Ausländerbeauftragte”)
• Lord mayor of the independent cities or district councillors of the districts and head of the municipal foreigners authority: you can find the contacts online on the homepage of the city / district (“Oberbürgermeisterin”, “Landrat”)
• Members of the state parliament, state parliament or Bundestag (“Landtagsabgeordnete”, Bundestagsabgeordnete”)

On abgeordnetenwatch.de you can find the responsible people by selecting the postcode and parliament.

International contacts

It is often not possible to prevent an ongoing deportation. Those affected then also need support in the country in which they arrive. You can find contacts to specialised lawyers, NGOs and other support structures in other European countries under the following links:

For contacts outside Europe, you can, for example, search on the respective embassy website of the country or ask migrant self-organisations from these countries. You can also find information and contacts for almost all countries on the IOM’s return counselling service (ZIRF country information):

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that all contacts are reliable and will be able to help.

Contacts in authorities and politics (actors responsible for deportations)

In specific cases, it can be helpful to contact the responsible actors in order to exert pressure in this way. As responsibilities and contact details change regularly, here is just a list:

• Sächsische*r Ministerpräsident*in
• Sächsische*r Innenminister*in
• Sächsisches Innenministerium, Referat 24, Ausländerangelegenheiten
• Landesdirektion Sachsen - Zentrale Ausländerbehörde (Abteilungsleitung, Referat Aufenthaltsbeendende Maßnahmen, Recht- und Fachaufsicht)
• Oberbürgermeister*in bei den kreisfreien Städten bzw. Landrät*innen der Landkreise und Leiter*in der kommunalen Ausländerbehörde: die Kontakte findest du online auf der Homepage der Stadt / des Landkreises

Counselling centres on health issues

Medibüros

Medinetze and Medibüros are independent initiatives that provide anonymous and free medical care to refugees and people without residence status. These are contacts of Medibüros in Saxony:

This link provides an overview of all Medinetze and Medibüros in Germany:

PSZ Sachsen - Psychosocial Centre Saxony

The Psychosocial Centre Saxony is a specialised institution for the support of mentally stressed people with migration experience. Counselling is free of charge and confidential.

There are counselling centres in Chemnitz, Dresden and Leipzig: