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‘Horrible’ refugee returns questioned

Several Members of Parliament are demanding answers from Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug regarding her active efforts to return asylum seekers to Aghanistan. Some are calling...

New asylum rules won’t be eased

Norway's tougher new asylum rules have boosted deportations and sparked concern lately, both inside and outside the country, but they won't be eased any...

Norway braces for new refugee influx

Norway's immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) is bracing for another influx of asylum seekers over its northern border to Russia. Officials won't specify why, but...

Facebook stunt backfires on everyone

Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug, established Norwegian media outlets, local actor Kristoffer Joner, the asylum advocacy organization NOAS and around 30,000 donors to NOAS all found...

Norway finally ready for more refugees

Just a day after a refugee aid group blasted Norwegian officials for being slow at taking in more refugees, state immigration agency UDI announced that around...

‘Siem Pilot’ caught in rescue ‘chaos’

The Norwegian vessel that's been deployed for rescue operations in the Mediterranean, the Siem Pilot, saved around 2,400 migrants over the weekend in an emergency...

Bishop: ‘Let illegals work and pay tax’

Bishop Emeritus Tor Berger Jørgensen is calling on the Norwegian government to allow everyone who has been living illegally in Norway for five years or...

Most all Afghan men fail to win asylum

New figures from the EU's statistics bureau Eurostat show that 99 percent of all men from Afghanistan who seek asylum in Norway are rejected....

Numbers of asylum seekers keep declining

Norwegian immigration agency UDI has registered 2,526 asylum seekers so far this year, a sharp decline from last year at this time, when that...

More calls made to take in more refugees

Norway's conservative minority government isn't only facing confrontations over how "green" its state budget will be, or how much oil money should be tapped....
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