Germany Sees Record Number of Migrants Granted Citizenship, Syrians Top the List

Breitbart ^ | 05/31/2025 | Kurt Zindulka

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The German government handed out a record number of citizenships to immigrants last year, rising to nearly a quarter of a million passports, with Syrian and Turkish nationals representing the largest cohorts.

According to data collected by 13 of 16 federal states in Germany and provided to the Welt Am Sonntag newspaper, 249,901 foreigners were granted citizenship in 2024, the highest number since records began in 2000. This number surpassed the previous record set in 2023, when 200,095 people were awarded citizenship.

Last year’s record naturalisation number is likely much higher, given that the states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein did not provide naturalisation records, with data set for release in the coming weeks

[ek_hornbeck]

I wonder if the Germans have started to notice a positive correlation between the number of Syrian refugees and the uptick in street crime and general squalor yet. Evidently not, otherwise they would be thinking about the best way to be rid of them, rather than granting them citizenship.

It used to be next to impossible for anyone other than an ethnic German to become a German citizenship, now citizen status is being handed out like candy.