{"id":4380,"date":"2025-11-29T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mth-partner.de\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:55:08","slug":"auslaenderrecht-trotz-entmakelung-dieser-kann-eine-jugendstrafe-der-einbuergerung-entgegenstehen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mth-partner.de\/en\/immigration-law-despite-the-issuance-of-a-pardon-and-the-removal-of-any-legal-stigma-a-juvenile-sentence-can-still-be-an-obstacle-to-naturalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Law: Despite the issuance of a pardon and the removal of any legal stigma, a juvenile sentence can still be an obstacle to naturalization."},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal Administrative Court, 05.06.2014, Case No.: BVerwG 10 C 4.14<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Until 2024, naturalisation was conditional on the naturalisation applicant being released from their previous citizenship. This is no longer the case. The naturalisation applicant then received an assurance of naturalisation until they were released. Furthermore, the naturalisation applicant had to fulfil all other requirements for naturalisation. These requirements for naturalisation also include that the naturalisation applicant has not had any criminal convictions to a certain extent.<\/p>\n

In the above-mentioned case, the Federal Administrative Court had to decide whether a Turkish national living in Germany could be denied naturalization due to two criminal convictions, even though the juvenile sentence had been expunged under \u00a7 100 of the Juvenile Court Act (JGG).<\/p>\n

<\/span>Facts of the Case:<\/span><\/h2>\n

<\/span>Turkish plaintiff had applied for naturalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n

The plaintiff, born in 1983 in Turkey, is a Turkish national. He has lived in Germany since 1996 and is the father of a child born in 2008 who holds German citizenship. In 1997, the plaintiff was first granted a residence permit, and since 2009, he has held a permanent residence permit.<\/p>\n

In June 2010, the plaintiff applied for naturalization with the defendant district. To assess the naturalization prerequisites, the defendant requested information from the Federal Central Register.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Plaintiff\u2019s Criminal Conviction:<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Federal Central Register revealed that the plaintiff had been issued a penalty order imposing a fine of 60 daily rates. Additionally, the plaintiff had been sentenced on November 28, 2002, to 10 months of juvenile detention, which was suspended on probation. After the probation period ended, the sentence was pardoned in 2005, and the criminal stigma was expunged according to \u00a7 100 JGG.<\/p>\n

Based on these convictions, the defendant denied the plaintiff\u2019s application for a naturalization assurance.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Legal Proceedings:<\/span><\/h3>\n

After the naturalization application was rejected, the plaintiff sued the naturalization authority. The Administrative Court initially dismissed the claim for a temporary naturalization assurance, and the appeal to the Higher Administrative Court was also rejected on August 22, 2013.<\/p>\n

The courts held that the combined penalties exceeded the threshold for negligible criminal offenses. The convictions were not subject to a non-disclosure rule under \u00a7 51 of the Federal Central Register Act (BZRG), and the expiration of the record would not occur until 10 years after the last conviction. The expungement of the criminal stigma did not equate to a deletion from the register, and \u00a7 41 (3) Sentence 1 BZRG did not create a non-disclosure rule equivalent to \u00a7 51 BZRG.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court<\/span><\/h2>\n

<\/span>According to the BVerwG, the plaintiff's convictions stand in the way of naturalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n

The plaintiff appealed to the Federal Administrative Court, which also ruled against him, dismissing the claim. The court held that the plaintiff was not entitled to the requested assurance because, after renouncing his Turkish citizenship, he did not meet the requirements for either entitlement naturalization under \u00a7 10 of the Nationality Act (StAG) or discretionary naturalization under \u00a7 8 StAG.<\/p>\n

The plaintiff\u2019s convictions constituted a material obstacle to naturalization and were not subject to the non-disclosure rule under \u00a7 51 BZRG.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Expungement Only Prevents Disclosure to Authorities:<\/span><\/h3>\n

This was not altered by the fact that the juvenile sentence had been remitted after the probation period had expired and the penalty had been cancelled in accordance with Section 100 JGG.<\/p>\n

The expungement only meant that the conviction could no longer be disclosed to the naturalization authority by the register authority. However, a material non-disclosure rule would only apply after the conviction was deleted from the register, which in this case would not occur until 2017, provided no further offenses were committed.<\/p>\n

Additionally, discretionary naturalization was ruled out due to the failure to meet the requirement of a clean criminal record.<\/p>\n

Source: Federal Administrative Court<\/p>\n

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Pursuant to Section 100 JGG, the judge shall declare the criminal stigma removed if the sentence or the remainder of the sentence is remitted after suspension of probation in the case of a juvenile sentence of no more than two years. 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