A Munich-based lives for a good four months at the Munich airport. Actually, the homeless guy wants to move in with his family to Thailand. To get married there, it lacks an important document. As long as he has not this, he would like to endure.

Munich – suitcase rolling on the stone tiles. Earlier, Joseph S. (67) woke up. Today, he can’t hear it at all. “I sleep well,” he says. Between the Seats, where he lays every night, gaps are not bothering him. In a bed, Josef S. has since the 30. December is no longer sleeping. On this day he arrived from Thailand at the Munich airport. There he has remained out of frustration about the district administration unit (KVR).

Munich want to move in with family to Thailand, but no one feels responsible

The Odyssey of Munich begins at the end of 2015. As Joseph S. wants to marry his girlfriend Nattiyakorn (41). She lives in Thailand. With her he has two sons. “It is important to me that my family is protected,” he says. So he went to the registry office in the district administration unit (KVR) in order to apply for a certificate of no impediment. This document is the prerequisite for the marriage to Nattiyakorn. Until today, he considers that it is not in the hands. “Hardly, I had a situation, again what is missed different, depending on the officer. I don’t look easy,“ complains S. High costs of Translation, the Consulate and the authorities were incurred. Also documents his fiance he had to teach. Both are divorced, yet more bureaucracy. “I have paid until today more than 5000 Euro”, says the former house master.

Homeless at the airport: Munich wants to family in Thailand, but authorities let him hang

The authorities of the former Neuhauser from München logged off. “I was almost always in Thailand,” admits. 30. December 2018, he flew to Munich in order to apply for a new passport and to settle finally, because “the burdened one”. A new passport Josef S. has now, but not the certificate of no impediment. The shock in the KVR: “Now many of the documents were too old!” His birth certificate, 2016 certified. Deprecated.

the homeless at Munich airport: Josef S. is not the Only one

Joseph S. is frustrated. So frustrated, that he has made a decision: “I’m sitting this one out here now.” And so are a few days, he wanted to stay at the airport, about four months. He is not the Only one who lives at the airport. According to the estimates of the project, “Moses”, established by the airport and the Evangelical Church, between 15 and 25 homeless people at the airport Munich (July 2018). Street workers take care of you and try to help them, in the ideal case, a new place to live. “We at the airport everything you need,” says Joseph S. “I can be free to go to the bathroom, and the vending machines there are coffee for 80 cents. Well, the shower I don’t do every day. 15 Euro for 20 minutes. Expensive.“

+ Wait in Thailand Josef: Mama Nattiyakorn and son, Leo, who is now three years old.©Bodmer

We have asked the KVR, such as Josef S. comes to be a certificate of capacity to marry. Not by the Munich KVR, as a spokesman tells. Because since the cancellation of the 67-Year-old man was no longer responsible for him. You have communicated to him also. Because he was the center of his life now at the airport and this location is in the district of Freising, have you referred it to the Registrar’s office in Freising. Joseph was in the meantime in Erding (“Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 belong to Erding!”). He was sent back to Munich, because he was there reported last. The KVR argued that it would only be responsible if Josef S. would no longer live in Germany. Joseph S. counters: “My centre of life is in Thailand with my family. I’m not giving up until I can be with her.“

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