The German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) updated its travel-and-security advisory for the United Arab Emirates on 28 February 2026, extending an explicit warning to eleven Middle-East states following US and Israeli strikes on Iran earlier the same day. Citing retaliatory missile fire and widespread air-space closures, Berlin urged all German citizens in Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi-Arabia, Qatar and the UAE to register on the ELEFAND crisis list and prepare for rapid relocation.
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The wording—“Seit dem 28. Februar 2026 führen Israel und die USA Luftschläge gegen Ziele in Iran durch… zahlreiche Lufträume wurden gesperrt”—marks one of the few occasions since the 2020 pandemic that the ministry has published a same-day region-wide alert. For German mobility managers the practical fallout is immediate: insurers may refuse cover for non-essential travel, while posted workers seeking to exit the GCC could struggle to secure seats on the limited flights still operating via Istanbul or Athens. Immigration counsel note that emergency repatriations can trigger unexpected social-security consequences. Under the EU Posting Regulation, employees brought back to Germany for more than 30 days automatically re-enter the domestic social-insurance scheme, potentially inflating payroll costs. Companies are therefore advised to document any temporary stay in the EU and apply for A1 certificates retroactively where justified. The Foreign Office emphasised that the advisory remains valid “until further notice”. Multinationals are likely to keep rotating crews on hold and divert high-level meetings to European venues until regional skies re-open—reinforcing Frankfurt’s status as a contingency hub for intra-company mobility.
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The wording—“Seit dem 28. Februar 2026 führen Israel und die USA Luftschläge gegen Ziele in Iran durch… zahlreiche Lufträume wurden gesperrt”—marks one of the few occasions since the 2020 pandemic that the ministry has published a same-day region-wide alert. For German mobility managers the practical fallout is immediate: insurers may refuse cover for non-essential travel, while posted workers seeking to exit the GCC could struggle to secure seats on the limited flights still operating via Istanbul or Athens. Immigration counsel note that emergency repatriations can trigger unexpected social-security consequences. Under the EU Posting Regulation, employees brought back to Germany for more than 30 days automatically re-enter the domestic social-insurance scheme, potentially inflating payroll costs. Companies are therefore advised to document any temporary stay in the EU and apply for A1 certificates retroactively where justified. The Foreign Office emphasised that the advisory remains valid “until further notice”. Multinationals are likely to keep rotating crews on hold and divert high-level meetings to European venues until regional skies re-open—reinforcing Frankfurt’s status as a contingency hub for intra-company mobility.
