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On December 19 last year, then-liberal leader Trine Skei Grande and Krf leader Kjell Ingolf Ropstad vowed that they had pushed for a Christmas amnesty for longer-term undocumented asylum seekers.
– Feel free to call it a Christmas amnesty, said then-liberal leader Trine Skei Grande.
Since then nothing has happened. Other than that, the lives of Lula Tekle and the 3,000-plus other so-called long-term undocumented have become much, much more difficult.
I hope the amnesty can allow Lulu to stay in Norway
– Everything is getting worse
Dagbladet meets Lula Tekle (56) in Greenland in Oslo today. He is with his assistant and Eritrean girlfriend, Fowzia Saadelin Mohammed (58).
– I’ve been waiting and hoping. But life is very difficult and the pandemic makes things even worse, he says.
Lula Tekle came to Norway in 2000, worked and paid taxes until 2011. Then it was no longer possible to work for undocumented asylum seekers, which has made life extremely difficult for Tekle and his undocumented colleagues.
– We just go here and wait and wait. It’s very difficult, says Tekle, who is perhaps Norway’s most famous undocumented woman, because she worked as a cleaner at Gunnar Stålsett.
Dagbladet has been trying for several days to get an answer to what is happening to long-term asylum seekers, who were promised amnesty almost a year ago.
“The case has been up for hearing and the ministry is reviewing the hearing statements now. Unfortunately, the work has been delayed as a result of covid-19,” wrote Andreas Skjøld-Lorange, senior communications adviser at the Ministry of Justice and Preparedness. for Emergencies earlier this week.
– 50 get a stay
KrF leader Ropstad writes Wednesday afternoon that he “understands that it is demanding for stakeholders to have to wait for this.”
– The crisis we now find ourselves in has unfortunately caused delays in several cases. Therefore, KrF in the government has been impatient in the follow-up, and now work is being done to find the single solution as quickly as possible, according to Ropstad.
According to the KrF leader, money has now been set aside to “follow up on this in 2021.”
– The latest information I have received shows that there are about 50 people who will be granted residency. There are 50 people who have been at reception for many years in uncertainty and I am glad that we have found a solution for them, he says.
– That there were 50 people, it was already said last year when the government came out and spoke of the single amnesty, says Trude Hellesø, in People in Limbo.
Former Liberal Party leader Trine Skei Grande declined to respond, referring to the Liberal Party’s justice policy spokesman, Solveig Schytz, who at 3pm yesterday had not yet given an answer.
– Unworthy treatment
Trude Hellesø at People in Limbo, the organization for long-term undocumented asylum seekers, is not impressed with the government’s work.
– The indifference of the authorities in the treatment of this group of congeners is outrageous. Our urgent call is: Put in place the announced “one-stop-shop for long-term asylum seekers” and expand the framework for this amnesty, Hellesø writes in an open letter to the Minister of Justice, director of UDI and director of NIPH.
– The strongest among us
The long-term asylum seeker agreement:
On December 19 last year, the government said it would enter into a one-time amnesty for longer-term undocumented asylum seekers. Since little has passed.
These are the requirements to be part of a unique solution:
- You must have lived in Norway on January 1, 2019 and resided in the country for 16 consecutive years.
- Age and length of stay must be at least 65 years. This means that people who, for example, came to Norway at age 49 and have lived here since, are covered by the solution.
- Nor can you be condemned for being covered by the proposal. The conditions must be met before October 1, 2021.
