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Foreigners boost their ranks

Nearly 334,000 persons with foreign passports were living in Norway last year, reports state statistics bureau SSB. That still only amounts to 7 percent...

Illegal aliens to get medical help

Norway's left-center government coalition has decided to extend the country's national health care services to illegal aliens, with clearer rules regarding the type of...

Thousands stuck in UDI backlog

Nearly 40,000 people have had their lives put on hold, some for as long as three years, while they wait for legal permission to...

Objections rise over intimate exams

A delicate and somewhat uncomfortable debate has broken out in Norway over the immigration agency's latest idea for verifying the age of asylum seekers:...

Rejected asylum seekers sent home

Norwegian government officials chartered a jet and forcibly sent 30 rejected refugees back home to Iraq over the weekend. The sudden deportations drew protests...

Tough job market for immigrants

It's not easy for immigrants to find work in Norway that's relevant to their qualifications, and now it appears that once they land a...

Norway shipped out its poorest

Norwegian authorities in the mid-1800s were so desperate to relieve taxpayers of the country's poorest citizens that they bought one-way tickets for them to...

Foreign Ministry tries to crack down on suspected pro forma marriage

Norway's Foreign Ministry is refusing to grant a visa to a man in Tunis even though the Norwegian immigration agency already has approved his...

Immigrants struggle with Norwegian

It's not easy to learn the Norwegian language, confirm the vast majority of new immigrants. Only 30 percent of those who have arrived in...

New ministers tackle asylum deluge

The new Norwegian government, feeling overrun by asylum-seekers streaming into the country, has restructured the ministries dealing with asylum issues and allocated billions to...
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