Interim suspension of deportation pending constitutional review of threatened expulsion enforcement

The German Federal Constitutional Court (2nd Senate, 1st Chamber) issued an interim order prohibiting the enforcement of the applicant’s deportation, granting the applicant’s request for provisional relief. The applicant challenged the execution of a deportation order originally threatened in a 2016 administrative decision, seeking protection from immediate removal pending the constitutional review. Relying on the competence of the Constitutional Court to issue interim measures to protect fundamental rights against imminent state action, the Court ordered the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees to notify the responsible immigration authority that the deportation must not be executed for the duration of the constitutional complaint, limited to a maximum of four months.