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Asylum
| Fewer asylum seekers to Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [10.03.2010, 09:38am, Wed. GMT] |
 In February this year 711 asylum seekers arrived in Norway. This is 40 per cent fewer than in February last year, according to fresh figures from the Immigration Directorate (UDI). So far this year 1552 applications for asylum in Norway have been registered, a decline of 39 per cent compared with the same period last year. Most asylum seekers come from Eritrea, Afghanistan and Somalia. Four out of ten asylum seekers come from one of these three countries, according to UDI. |
 | | | | Former Iranian diplomat granted asylum in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [17.02.2010, 07:09pm, Wed. GMT] |
| An Iranian diplomat in Norway who recently resigned in protest against Tehran's harsh treatment of anti-government protesters has been granted asylum, Norwegian authorities said Wednesday. Mohammed Reza Heydari applied last month for asylum, and said his decision to resign stemmed from his anger at the treatment meted out to protesters by Iranian authorities at the end of last year. |
| | | | Norway received 500,000 immigrants in 10 years |
| [Norwaynews] [08.02.2010, 04:23pm, Mon. GMT] |
 Immigration to Norway is record high. Since the year 2000, 510,748 persons have received permanent residence permit for this country. This is the largest migration we have encountered, researcher says. We must go back to the emmigration from Norway to North America in the 1880s, to find anything similar, says researcher Lars Østby of Statistics Norway (SSB) to the newspaper Vårt Land. |
| | | | More returnees to be sent out |
| [Norwaynews] [15.01.2010, 07:28pm, Fri. GMT] |
Justice Minister Knut Storberget says he plans to expel more asylum seekers who have been denied asylum in Norway. More than 17,000 asylum seekers arrived in Norway in 2009, 2700 more than in 2008. Last year, those who were returned to their homeland were mostly asylum seekers from Iraq, but the Justice Minister says asylum sekers from another seven countries may be forcibly expelled in future.
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| | | | Record number of asylum seekers |
| [Norwaynews] [16.12.2009, 10:41am, Wed. GMT] |
A record number of persons will apply for asylum in Norway this year, but still fewer than first expected. Justice Minister Knut Storberget now reduces the estimate from 18.500 to 17.300 asylum seekers. In the Justice Minister's opinion, the reduction is a result of the Government's tightening-up of the asylum policy. This includes both the earlier tightening up, and the recent warning of a new Immigration Act which will be introduced from January 1st, Storberget says.
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| | | | Record number of asylum seekers to Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [07.08.2009, 05:42pm, Fri. GMT] |
So far this year close to 10 thousand refugees have arrived in Norway. This is an increase by 45 per cent compared to last year. These numbers indicates that 2009 might be a new record year for asylum seekers arriving in Norway. In 2008 around 14.400 asylum seekers arrived in Norway. This number is nearly doubled from the year before. Our of the 9.900 arrived so far in 2009, 5.700 came from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq. 1.417 persons claim to be minors, and more than thousand of these came from Afghanistan.
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| | | | Asylum seekers will need identification in Norway. |
| [Norwaynews] [17.02.2009, 02:47pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Asylum seekers arriving in Norway without identification papers will no longer be able to work in Norway, Labour and Social Inclusion Minister Dag Terje Andersen warns. Presently, nine out of ten persons seeking asylum in Norway do not carry identification documenting who they are. From now on, only those who are able to document their identity, or who actively contribute towards verifying it, will obtain a work permit. |
| | | | Asylum seekers to Norway more than doubled. |
| [Norwaynews] [23.01.2009, 03:34pm, Fri. GMT] |
| The Norwegian Immigration Directorate (UDI) announced Friday that the number of asylum seekers to Norway was more than double from 2007 to 2008. As many as 14,431 persons applied for asylum in Norway in 2008."This is an increase of 120 percent from the previous year but lower than in the early 2000s, when nearly 18,000 applied for asylum. The increase was especially higher for unaccompanied minors," said the UDI in a statement. Among them, 73 percent of the asylum seekers were men, and 48 percent, almost 7,000 people, were between the age of 18 and 29, the statement added. |
| | | | Sniper targets teen asylum-seekers in Norway. |
| [Norwaynews] [20.07.2008, 09:31am, Sun. GMT] |
| Several shots were fired at a center for teenage asylum-seekers in Norway on Friday, and a 16-year-old Somali boy was seriously wounded, police said. Police believe the shots were fired from long range, with a "heavy-caliber" weapon, police spokesman Einaar Aas said, without giving further details. The boy was in his bed on the top floor of a two-story Hvalstad asylum center in Asker, outside Oslo, when a bullet pierced the wooden wall and hit him in the stomach, asylum center director Ahmed Bozgil told The Associated Press. Aas said the boy was in critical condition at an Oslo hospital and would undergo surgery. |
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| Health services for illegal immigrants |
| [Norwaynews] [02.03.2010, 08:00am, Tue. GMT] |
 The Norwegian government will now provide full public health services for children, pregnant women and mentally unstable persons who are living in Norway illegally, without ID documents. This is clear after the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen and Justice Minister Knut Storberget have agreed to outline the rights of those immigrants living in Norway without ID papers. |
| | | | Norway Tamil Film Festival ends today |
| [Norwaynews] [09.02.2010, 09:14am, Tue. GMT] |
 Filmmakers Sasi Kumar, Samuthirakkani and SP Jananathan cordially inaugurated the Norway Tamil Film Festival in Norway. This film festival was organized by Moser Baer in collaboration with Tamil Community in Norway and showcased wide range of Tamil movies that captured the global interest. Director Sasikumar’s Subramaniapuram and Pasanga, Nadodigal, Director Mysskin’s Nandalala and Anjathey, Director SP. Jananathan’s Ee and Peranmai, Director Sasi’s POO, Director Jagannath’s Raman Thediya Seethai, Director Rasu Madhuravan’s Mayandi Kudumbathar and Ameer’s Yogi were screened during this festival.
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| | | | Norway expells more illegal immigrants |
| [Norwaynews] [27.01.2010, 11:10am, Wed. GMT] |
The Norwegian police aliens section early Tuesday morning expelled 13 Iraqis who were staying in Norway illegally. They were put on a chartered plane for Iraq with heavy police escort. The plane then landed in Stockholm, Sweden, where another 33 Iraqis were picked up, before the flight set course for Baghdad. Just two months ago, 33 Iraqi immigrants without Norwegian residence permits were returned to their homeland. |
| | | | Norway to resettle Tamil boatpeople |
| [Norwaynews] [17.12.2009, 04:23pm, Thu. GMT] |
NORWAY has again come to the rescue of an Australian prime minister desperate to resettle stateless boatpeople, with Oslo confirming it will take some of the Tamils rescued by the Oceanic Viking. Seven years after the Scandinavian state gave a home to the Afghans rescued by the MV Tampa, Norwegian officials have confirmed they are considering taking three of the 78 Sri Lankans. And as Tony Abbott attacked the Tamils for "blackmailing" their way out of Indonesia, New Zealand said it was likely to take some of the refugees. The Australian understands Canada and possibly the US are also expected to assist.
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| | | | Immigrants in Norway feel oppress at work - Aftenposten reported |
| [Norwaynews] [22.11.2009, 09:22pm, Sun. GMT] |
Both as many immigrants as Norwegians feel oppress at work, according to recent survey. Racism is behind the trend, says the researcher. Lack of inclusion is the kind of bullying that mainly foreign workers have the experience. They feel excluded from the community with their colleagues. To the extent that this happens because they have a different ethnic or national background, so they are exposed to racism.
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| | | | Norway could see new high in economic asylum seekers |
| [Norwaynews] [02.07.2009, 01:15pm, Thu. GMT] |
A proper asylum seeker is a person who flees their country of origin to escape conflict or persecution, whilst an economic asylum seeker is someone who leaves their country purely to have a better quality life. Economic asylum seekers are not in any serious danger. Norway could see a record year for the number of asylum seekers, according to reports reaching here from Oslo on Thursday. So far this year the number is 2,500 more than for the same period last year, which was also a record year, the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said. The number of asylum seekers is now so high that if measures are not introduced, it could well reach 18,000 or more by the end of the year, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Dag Terje Andersen, was quoted as saying.
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| | | | Immigrants are threatened by foreign agents. |
| [Norwaynews] [10.02.2009, 07:54pm, Tue. GMT] |
A number of immigrants in Norway are threatened and pursued by foreign security services or other agents from their homeland, according to the Security Service of the Norwegian Police (PST). PST is aware that security services from several countries are monitoring the activities of dissidents who have fled from regimes at home, and that several of these regimes have representatives in Norway. |
| | | | Norway grants residence permit to victims of human trafficking. |
| [Norwaynews] [19.11.2008, 10:02pm, Wed. GMT] |
Norway is opening its door to victims and witnesses of human trafficking as the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion instructed the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) to provide them residence permits. “The new instructions allow permanent work or residence permits for Norway to be issued to the persons in question. This is to ensure that victims of human trafficking can testify without fear of retaliation in their country of origin, and to make sure that we catch more ringleaders,” Labor and Social Inclusion State Secretary Libe Rieber-Mohn said. “This is (also) a good measure that will make it easier to persuade the women to testify against the ringleaders, while at the same time ensuring guaranteeing the safety of the women involved,” Secretary Mohn explained.
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