Dresden (dpa / sn) - The Hardship Commission, chaired by the Saxon Commissioner for Foreigners Geert Mackenroth, now wants to take care of the case of the Vietnamese Pham Phi Son and his family again. Mackenroth had examined a new application and found that a new situation justified the renewed involvement of the commission, said authority spokesman Markus Guffler on Monday on request. However, the new application has not yet been discussed and decided. This will probably take place in a meeting of the Hardship Commission on February 10 next year. "With the accepted application, the applicant is protected against deportation".
Pham Phi Son has been living in Saxony for 35 years, but he, his wife and child were threatened with deportation. Tens of thousands of people had spoken out in an online petition for the whereabouts of the family. Pham Phi Son came to East Germany in 1987 as a contract worker. In the meantime, however, he had been back in Vietnam for more than half a year, thereby violating deadlines in Germany. The case had already occupied courts, as did the country's Hardship Commission, which rejected a right to stay.
"It is a great relief for my clients that they have finally received the long-awaited work permit from the immigration authorities. Due to the new employment relationships in a local restaurant, there is now nothing standing in the way of the new hardship case procedure," explained Jenny Fleischer, family lawyer. After a legal examination, the immigration authorities must also be aware that "deportation violates Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and is also not proportionate after 37 years of residence in the Federal Republic".
