It writes Jyllands-Posten.
There are ten cases of family reunification and three cases of religious preachers. In addition, there may be accompanying family members who are affected, the ministry informs according to Jyllands-Posten.
– Cases where a refusal of an extension of a residence permit has been announced, solely with reference to the fact that the alien has not passed the immigration test, must be resumed, the ministry writes in a reply to the Folketing.
Foreign Minister Mattias Tesfaye (S) has already regretted the case.
The error was discovered when the Folketing wanted to raise the language level of the test. Here it turned out that parts of the test were already as difficult as the politicians wanted. In return, it was against the law.
The newspaper has spoken to a Christian member of the Mormon Church, American Lui Wolfgramm, who together with his wife was on an 18-month stay in Denmark at the denomination Jesus Church of Christ.
He made two mistakes too much in the language and knowledge test, and the couple was sent back to the United States in the middle of their stay.
Since then, it has turned out that the linguistic part of the test was more difficult than allowed.
The test has also been used in family reunification cases for a year and a half from 2010 to 2012.
According to the newspaper, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration Affairs is now in the process of locating the affected persons.
Initially, the ministry must find out if they want their cases resumed at all.
If they wish, the authorities will re-examine their sample and this time disregard those parts of the sample which were more difficult than allowed.
Lui Wolfgramm believes the injury happened, he tells the newspaper.
– I’d rather just leave it. I have forgiven the Danish government, he says.
Kim Pedersen Nyberg, who is a senior adviser in Marriage without Borders, believes that it is too late for the cases to be resumed. Most have “probably found other ways”, he says to Jyllands-Posten.
Professor of Administrative Law Sten Bønsing from Aalborg University remarked in July that this has been an illegal practice and that the case is “serious and intrusive” for the affected citizens.
Source: The Nordic Page