APPENDIX VI
APPENDIX VI
The Federal Ministry of Labor and its labor offices
in each state have control over the state labor offices.
Federal control over the issuance of labor permits is
maintained through this system.
The Federal labor offices
provide policy guidance to the local labor offices to assure
uniform application of the national immiqration policy.
For example,
according to a Labor Ministry official, no new
labor permits have been issued since 1973 because the govern-
ment considers the unemployment rate to be high--4.1 percent--
or 922,000, of which 80,000 are aliens.
Local labor offices are also responsible for identifying
aliens working illegally,
either as a result of their being
illegal residents or of their being in a residency status
that is not permitted to work.
A government official told us
that statistics on the number of illegal workers apprehended
are not maintained.
Germany uses the requirement for a visa to regulate
the entry of citizens from some countries.
Passport checks
are made at all ports of entry.
Post-entry controls are
mainly accomplished through the issuance of residency permits
which all aliens who stay longer than 3 months must obtain.
Residency permits are usually issued for a l-year period
with the possibility of renewal.
A Ministry of Interior official stated that the alien
law is to be revised.
The revision will make initial resi-
dency permits valid for 1 year, the first renewal valid
for 2 years, and the second and final renewal valid for an
additional 2 years. When the 5-year temporary residency
period has been completed, an alien can then apply
for permanent resident status.
Immigration officials said they depend on public welfare
officials and others who can identify illegal alien activity
to inform immigration authorities when aliens have apparently
violated the conditions of their residency status and without
those officials' cooperation,
the internal control over aiien
activity would be ineffective.
The 11 state governments solicit public officiais' co-
operation: however, there is no legal requirement making such
assistance compulsory. Officials said that assistance is
sometimes withheld because public officials do not want to
be responsible for causing someone to be identified as an
illegal alien and therefore susceptible to deportation.
Government officials told us that this attitude is a carryover
from World War II, after which German citizens rejected any
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