Seven to loose residence permits in Norway!

We can now reveal that 7 people may be stripped of their residence permits and citizenship in Norway.

All of them got their permits and citizenship through falsehood. They entered into proforma marriages and paid large sums of money to their Norwegian so-called wives!

The government says they will not condone the behaviour and by stripping them of their residence permits and citizenship, they will be setting an example so that crimes of that nature is not repeated by many in the future.

Others in the proforma list have already got the Norwegian citizenship and they thought they were safe. This group will also loose their citizenship.

Nigerians top the list, followed by Ugandan, Tanzanian and Kenyan nationals. The government says they will now go back and scrutinise all permits given between 1996 to date, a period of ten years.

(a developing story….. more details to come)

Korir, APN

africanpress@chello.no

Proforma marriages uncovered in Norway!

Proforma marriages is rampant in Norway.

Many Norwegian women receive money to wed African men so that they get residence permit to stay in the country.

The Norwegian department of immigration when contacted has said they will call the people involved for questioning.

Some of the cases are as old as 7 years. Those who have already acquired Norwegian citizenship will loose it if the authorities prove they got it through falsehood.

Some of the men have never lived with the women they married as their wives.

In most cases, the men keep some clothes and shoes in the women’s houses to fool the authorities that they live in the house, while in real sense, they are somewhere else.

A lot of money changed hands. The men pay as much as kr.100 000 for a singel proforma marriage.

Some of the women have this as a profession. After 3 years, they divorce the men and marry news ones for money.

They pay an advance payment, get married and they have to work almost as slaves having to work in 2 to 3 jobs daily to pay the rest of the money to the women. If they default in payment, they risk to be reported to the police by the women.

“a developing story”.. more details to come on who they are and the countries they come from in Africa.

korir, APN

africanpress@chello.no

Many black women tortured by their Norwegian husbands!

Oslo has become a city with many mixed marriages. Many Norwegians are getting black women as their wives.

It has come to the knowledge of African Press that some Norwegian men prefer to marry African women, because these women do not dare challenge their authority like most Norwegian women would do to their husbands.

A large group of the men married to African women are very old, and would like to have a good caring and most of all a fearing African woman whose status in the country is not permanent.

Many of the women when out in the open behave in a manner that indicates they are happy with their husbands. When in camera, they reveal the hell they live in with their husbands who beat on a daily basis to silence them whenever they open their mouth to complain about anything.

African Press, recently observed two couples in a city restaurant. When their wives tried to greet some Africans from their home countries, the husbands became very hostile and send them home immediately.

When African Press asked the two men why they reacted so, they stated that they used their money to bring the women from Africa and they expect them to be loyal at all times.

When asked whether it is wrong to let their wives speak to their countrymen who they meet on the streets of Oslo, the men got furious, raising their voices as loud as they could saying their wives had no business to mix with other blacks while in Norway.

This is a very sad situation. These women pretend to be happy and yet they are suffering in the hands of their husbands.

They fear to report the beatings and harassment inflicted on them to the police because they are afaraid to loose their residence permit, should their husbands start a process to have tehm thrown out of the country.

They choose to suffer for up to three or four years before they get the courage to tell their husbands what they think about them. They say the best is to suffer until they have stayed in Norway for 3 years, of which they will be entitled to a permanent permit to stay in the country. This is the time their husbands will have no more rights to apply to the State to have them send out of the country.

It is our opinion that the police should assist these women and help in stopping the torture they go through everyday.

We also feel that the secretariat for battered women in Oslo should be more active in protecting this minority group, before it is too late.

Some of them African Press has talked to say it is better to take their own lives rather than continue being tortured in their houses by their arrogant husbands.

They say their husbands behave like masters handling slaves, comparing their situation with the slaves who were taken from Africa to America where they were molested and some killed.

By Korir, APN

africanpress@chello.no

Many Africans are jobless in Norway!

There are many Africans in Oslo who are jobless, despite their higher education in different fields of experience.

It is, in most cases, a sad story to see many qualified Africans end up doing cleaning jobs and washing the sick in the old people’s homes to make a living.

These are jobs the ethnic Norwegians despise. To get the Africans to take up the jobs they despise, the company employers make sure it is difficult for them to get jobs they are qualified to have.

The language is another barrier. Many Africans are not fluent in the Norwegian language, and this is one of the excuses used to lock them out of the jobs that they should get.

Many university graduates have completed their university education in different institutions here in Norway, hoping to get white collar jobs.

When they apply for jobs they discover they are not even called for an interview despite having passed the examinations well. They are left wondering how to pay back school loans that the government gave them while taking their education.

They have huge school loans that must be paid back to the government. And without the jobs that they have educated themselves for, it takes them years and years to manage repay the loans, because the jobs they get after they complete their education earns them little income.

These jobs are not permanent, thus not enabling them to acquire loans in the bank should they consider to establish private businesses.

The government has a challenge here. By not providing jobs for these individuals, they are creating a lower class group in the society.

Educated Africans should have joint efforts, form a committee that should force the government to exercise affirmative action so that the African community in Norway gets the necessary employment and safeguard their dignity.

We are all aware that Africa is a large continent with many different groups of nationalities.

To unite them so that they speak to the Norwegian government in one voice and be heard is a difficult task, because most of them carry with them their country conflicts from Africa to Norway.

The behaviour like that makes them look at each other as enemies rather than a group from the same continent that should aim at the same goals.

And as they do so, those who deny them jobs exploit the situation for their own benefit and only make it possible for the Africans to get simple jobs.

There are, however, a few number of Africans who have got jobs of late in government departements, but though they have good jobs, it is rare that they get the opportunity to decide on anything.

Most of them will always suffer being cross-checked in whatever they do, and are forced to perform much more than an ethnic Norwegian so that he or she may get any consideration in the future for a promotion.

By Korir, Chief Editor, African Press International - API

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