German XAusländer

The XAusländer standard has been used amongst local foreign affairs offices since November 2011 and between local foreign affairs offices and registration offices since November 2012. From November 2013, in its role of a communication partner, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) will exchange data concerning integration with local foreign affairs offices using the standard and the Federal Office's own InGe (integration transaction file) application. A year later, communication between local foreign affairs offices and the providers of basic social security (the job centre at the Federal Employment Agency and the unemployment benefit II agency) was to follow. Further plans from 2015 include the expansion of the local foreign affairs offices' communications with the Register of Foreign Nationals. Foreign citizens need to provide their information to a local foreign affairs office, once. Organizations like registration office, registration of foreign nations, administrative courts, federal employment agency and all others who deal with foreign citizens communicate this information among themselves without asking for it again. Both citizens and authorities have accepted these regulations and procedures.