16 May 2009

Persons with refugee status, a residence permit on humanitarian grounds, or a residence permit through family reunification, have to work or go to school for four years before they can be reunited with a NEW spouse (husband/wife).

So far, this does NOT apply to persons who were married already before the first person came to Norway. For persons with a residence permit on humanitarian grounds (not refugee status) a restrictive measure will be introduced later.

Read more about Restrictive Measures on our Restrictive Measures Watch page.

8 May 2009

The Iranian Refugee Committee and Borderland invite to a seminar about the handling of asylum seekers from Iran Thursday 14 May, at 14.00-18.00. The seminar will take place at the Antiracist Centre, in Storgata 25 in Oslo. No entry fee, no registration. Welcome!

Dagbladet, 4 May 2009

In this article, the Ethiopian Asylum Seekers' Association describes the harsh situation for many persons living without papers in Norway, and how they are easy victims of exploitation by employers. Their hopes of safety and normalcy after fleeing their home country are daily destroyed. (The article was facilitated by Borderland.)

Read the article in Dagbladet.

Aftenposten, 2 May 2009

Reply from Borderland to an article in Aftenposten, concerning Utlendingsnemnda's granting of residence permits to young girls who risk forced gender mutilation. Instructing the UDI not to consider this risk, as the Government has done, is as untenable as instructing the UDI not to consider risk of political persecution.

30 April 2009

Written in parallel to the famous poem "I, Too" by the American poet Langston Hughes.