Source: The Local.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas, said in a statement that he and Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière had struck a deal on a draft law which would create a path to dual citizenship for thousands more people.
Maas called the plan “a very significant step toward a modern citizenship policy.”
Those over the age of 21 who were born in Germany and have lived in the country for at least eight years or attended school here for at least six years – without being born here – will no longer have to choose between their birth country and their parents’ country of origin.
Exceptions will also be made for those who have spent fewer than six years but graduated from a German school, or completed a vocational programme.
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seems a bit complicated, but still some progress in the right direction.