Norway’s national policy on immigration

Arriving immigrants in Norway

● 2015 - 29 802

● 2016 - 26 076

● Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan

● 30% of immigrants are refugees

● 4.1% of the population are immigrants

Responsibility for arriving immigrants

● The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration

● Processing applications, asylum reception centres and expulsion cases

Application for permanent residency

● Oral Norwegian test of a minimum A1 level and test in social studies

● Younger the 16 or older than 55, skilled worker or family member or such worker

● 8 month application time

● Who decides on an application?

Immigrant’s rights while non-permanent residents● Temporary work permit

● Health care

● Monthly allowance depending on situation

Problems with Norway’s national policy

High cost to send back asylum seekers that has not been accepted.

● 2017: about 5000 people sent back

● Annual cost processing applications and sending back asylum seekers: 100 million Euros

Difficulty to return people without papers, or people where the country of origin does not want to

receive the asylum seeker.

● People can wait for years without a possible return, but also no right to work, and then a limited

possibility to integrated.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/norway-migrant-quality-not-quantity

Sources

https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/statistikker/flyttinghttps://www.ssb.no/befolkning/statistikker/flyktninger