Aussiedler and Spätaussiedler

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Aussiedler und Spätaussiedler (English: settlers and resettlers) refers to immigrants of German descent who returned to the Federal Republic of Germany from a state of the former Eastern Bloc to settle there. Until the end of the 1980s, most came from Poland and Romania; since 1990, mostly from the successor states of the Soviet Union. Until 31 December 1992, such people were officially called resettlers. Who were born as German nationals in the formerly German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line and initially remained there after 1945, as well as their descendants and spouses of other ethnic origins and national identity (according to § 4 para. 3 sentence 2 BVFG) who have resettled in Germany, Abs. 3 Satz 2 BVFG), or Those who, as ethnic Germans from a socialist-governed country, have resettled in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany or the German Democratic Republic as part of an admission procedure, as well as the relatives who accompanied them during their resettlement...

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