Germany Threatens Refugee Status Of Migrants Who Take Syria Vacations Migrants in Germany who return to Syria for holidays may lose their refugee status, according to German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> “If somebody, a Syrian refugee, regularly takes holidays in Syria, he cannot honestly claim to be persecuted in Syria,” Seehofer told Bild …