The department for Home Affaires 1 deals with:

• Asylum and refugee policy
• Immigration policy
• Integration Policy

• Issues of external border protection, European Integrated Border Management and free movement of persons in an area without internal border controls

• Visa policy
  

Head of department: Mr. Wolfgang Hammer

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The department for Home Affaires 2 deals with:

• Police cooperation between EU Member States
• Counterterrorism
• Civil protection and crisis management
• Data protection
• Cooperation between the parties to the Schengen Agreement in the European Union
• Cybersecurity

Head of department: Ms. Katharina Erdmenger

Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community