– Next week, I plan to submit a bill to the Folketing that will give the evacuated Afghans the opportunity to apply for a two-year residence permit.
– The bill is amended on several points in relation to the text that has been in consultation. This means, among other things, that we will not recognize more spouses or minor spouses as a basis for a residence permit under the special law, it sounds from Tesfaye in a written comment.
The debate gained momentum when Jyllands-Posten wrote on Thursday that the government would accept polygamy and underage spouses in the new special law on residence for evacuees from Afghanistan.
When a political agreement on evacuation and temporary residence was concluded in August, the agreement specifically emphasized that it did not apply to minor spouses and any spouses other than one.
So a no to that type of marriage.
However, the later draft law stated that the conditions during the evacuation in Afghanistan were complicated, which meant that “foreigners who were not covered by the political agreement have been or may have been evacuated”.
– It is the opinion of the Ministry of Immigration and Integration that such foreigners should in the given circumstances also be able to be granted a residence permit, it is stated in the draft
The Left and the Conservatives are now demanding a clear response from the government.
– The government has made so many strange decisions and made so many reversals in this case that we must see a bill in print before we are satisfied, says the Liberal Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Morten Dahlin.
At the Conservatives, Marcus Knuth wants clarity on whether Denmark has evacuated minor spouses or persons who share a spouse with another.
– The government would probably not have made the text of the law where they propose it, if that was not the case.
– I have written to Mattias Tesfaye about no later than Thursday. And I still have not received an answer, he says.
Denmark has received approximately 1,000 evacuees from Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration Affairs informs Jyllands-Posten that it is currently not aware that there are minor spouses among them.
The ministry is also not aware of anyone who has taken more than one wife with them. However, there is a deceased man who was married to two women at the same time. The two wives (now widows) have both been evacuated to Denmark.