Tag: immigration

State boosts financial aid for rejected refugees

Families whose applications for asylum in Norway have been rejected by state authorities are now being offered more financial aid if they leave the...

Hostility rises against migrants

Tempers are rising against hundreds of migrants in Oslo, most of them Roma folk from Romania and Bulgaria, who continue to camp illegally in...

Roma campers land in new conflict

Around 200 migrants from southeastern Europe, who claim to be looking for work in Oslo but mostly resort to begging, have landed in yet...

Most new residents come from elsewhere in Europe

Nearly 25,000 citizens from countries within the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland and Liechtenstein) registered themselves as resident in Norway during the...

Foreign aid hasn’t hindered begging

Several Norwegian politicians have claimed recently that the best way to halt an influx of beggars to Norway is to keep extending foreign aid...

Faremo eases new immigration rules

Justice Minister Grete Faremo has finally responded to a stream of complaints, also from the state's own immigration agency UDI, that new income requirements...

Rapid growth hits housing market

It took Norway a few thousand years to reach a population of just 5 million. Another  million, though, is expected just 17 years from...

Immigration agency gets new boss

The new head of the state agency that can decide the fate of foreigners in Norway is a 14-year veteran who started out as...

Progress Party sends a message to refugees: ‘Live like Norwegians!’

Norway's most conservative party is proposing new criteria for approval of refugees' applications for asylum in Norway: Dress like Norwegians, communicate in Norwegian, get...

Immigrants gain more acceptance

There was a marked increase in the numbers of immigrants taking part in last month's 17th of May celebrations in Oslo, and a new...
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