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You're not entirely wrong, but it's important to be careful as well because the immigration authorities in the nordics are bureaucratic monsters. There are many
by mstade 8y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but it's important to be careful as well because the immigration authorities in the nordics are bureaucratic monsters. There are many examples of people being deported because of a mistake entirely out of their hands, such as an employer getting the wrong date on a form, or not paying salaries on time (which can easily happen if people don't have a bank account set up yet.) These things sound like they could just be corrected by sending the forms again or whatever, yet people are deported for the dumbest reasons.
These institutions need fixing, but it never seems to be a priority and most definitely not in the current political climate. :o(
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoI don't know if it is "luckily" or not, but my stay here isn't actually conditional on work, since I wound up here through marriage. It is very conditional on being married, but that hasn't been an issue either. I have a in-house Norwegian to help through most of the bureaucracy. And you are correct, it isn't perfect, but I think those stories happen everywhere. I'm still happy to be dealing with these bureaucratic monsters as opposed to the american immigration monsters. You are most definitely correct on the current political climate. If anything, they have made things more difficult for folks. Initial immigration hasn't been so bad, but they did increase the requirements for permanent residency so that I have to prove I'm self-supporting, work for 12 months, be in school for a year, (even though my spouse has to prove he makes enough to support me each year) or be here a long time - I think they said 8-10 years. Again, though, not impossible by any means. It just made me wait longer for citizenship.