Denmark placed advertisements in four Lebanese newspapers yesterday announcing tighter regulations and cuts in provisions for asylum seekers.
In what is believed to be a warning to would be immigrants, the advertisement said social assistance for newly arrived refugees was being reduced by up to 50 per cent, adding that those granted temporary protection would not have the right to family reunification for the first year of their residence.
New refugees will have to be able to speak and understand Danish in order to obtain a permanent residency.
“There will be a special return centre for rejected asylum seekers to ensure [they]…leave Denmark as quickly as possible,” the advertisement added.
The new measure came into affected today.
Denmark’s Integration Minister Inger Stojberg shared the Arabic version of the advert on her Facebook page.
Har i dag, som lovet, indrykket annoncer i fire libanesiske aviser, der informerer om de ændrede vilkår for personer,…
Posted by Inger Støjberg on Sunday, 6 September 2015
Below is an English version of the advert.
Denmark trying to scare off would-be migrants with these ads in #Lebanon media: pic.twitter.com/8uQasJJBF6
— Sara Hussein (@sarahussein) September 7, 2015