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April 26th, 2016 | #1 |
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Norway to PAY asylum seekers $1200 each to return to their home country
Norway to PAY asylum seekers £850 each to return to their home country as it is far cheaper than putting them up in hostels
Norway to offer asylum seekers a £840 bonus to leave voluntarily This is in addition to the £1,681 already offered to those who go home Norwegian government says this is still cheaper than to house them Norway is offering to pay asylum seekers a £850 'expenses bonus' if they take up their offer to return to their home countries. The Norwegian government already offers 20,000 NOK (£1,681) to refugees and migrants to apply for a voluntary return, and the new offers is in addition to the original offer. The reason for the bonus, taking the total payment to returning asylum seekers to 30,000 NOK (£2,523), is the rising costs of housing new arrivals, Norway's Integration Minister said. The new £850 bonus will be offered to the first 500 applicants on a first come, first serve basis in order to speed up returns. 'We need to entice more to voluntarily travel back by giving them a bit more money on their way out,' Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug said according to The Local. 'This will save us a lot of money because it is expensive to have people in the asylum centres,' Norway's Directorate of Immigration’s (Utlendingsdirektoratet - UDI) said a family of four could expect to receive around 80,000 NOK (£6,727) to return to their home country. The new bonus will be on offer for six weeks to asylum seekers who arrived in Norway before April 1st and have not overstayed. The UDI told the Local that they hope to speed up repatriation of asylum seeking migrants with no protection claim in Norway. Norway saw 31,145 people apply for asylum in 2015, almost read full article at source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...g-hostels.html |
April 26th, 2016 | #2 |
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Wonder if it will start a revolving door of 'asylum' seekers.
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