Iraqi authorities allegedly deport a student who acquired Einser-Abi, the German high school diploma.
In the city of Stuttgart, a 24-year-old Iraqi student named R. Awat Nabi was forcibly deported last week, following the discovery of falsified Iraqi ID cards connected to his case. Despite his impressive academic achievements, the presence of these falsified documents played a key role in the decision to deport him.
R. Awat Nabi had achieved a high school diploma with an average grade of 1.5 and was nearing completion of a bachelor's degree in Building and Energy Engineering at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. However, the city of Stuttgart defended the deportation, suggesting that the authorities' concerns over his identity documents outweighed his student status and academic performance.
The Stuttgart Foreigners' Authority had repeatedly demanded that R. Awat Nabi provide confirmation from the Iraqi consulate on the basis of which the consulate had issued his new passport. However, he did not comply. As a result, his ID cards, citizenship certificates, and passports were confiscated, as they were found to be falsified.
His lawyer, Stefan Weidner, made an emergency application to stop the deportation, but it was unsuccessful. Weidner criticized the hasty and premature deportation, suggesting that there was enough time to carefully check R. Awat Nabi's identity.
The city also stated that R. Awat Nabi's asylum application was checked and rejected by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). His previous asylum application and subsequent applications for a residence permit were also rejected.
In a related development, the Stuttgart Foreigners' Authority revealed that the second most frequent country of origin in 2025 was Turkey, with 205 persons, of whom 118 were deported to Turkey. North Macedonia was in third place, with 176 persons each as both the country of origin and destination. The most frequent country of origin and destination in 2025 was Georgia, with 207 and 206 deported persons respectively.
The deportations in Baden-Württemberg in 2025 were carried out by the Karlsruhe Regional Council. In the first half of the year, a total of 1841 people were deported, an increase from 2024 (1356 people).
However, there were protests last Saturday in Stuttgart to bring R. Awat Nabi back to Germany. It remains to be seen whether further legal action will be taken to challenge his deportation.
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