Only 494 of 163,000 2015 Asylum Seekers Have
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Posted On: 12/11/2016 11:56:26 AM
Only 494 of 163,000 2015 Asylum Seekers Have Jobs in Sweden
Sweden admitted 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015.
Of those 163,000 migrants only 494 have jobs.
The rest are living off of they system.
In January Sweden announced the country was
planning on deporting up to 80,000 of the 2015 migrants.
The Local reported, via Religion of Peace:
Of almost 163,000 people who applied for asylum in Sweden last year, less than 500 landed a job, according to a report by a Swedish public broadcaster.
Using figures from Sweden’s employment agency Arbetsförmedlingen and migration authorities Migrationsverket, SVT reported on Tuesday that 494 asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 have managed to find a job to support themselves while waiting for their application to get processed.
A person who arrives in Sweden with valid identification documents and has applied for asylum is normally allowed to work despite not yet having a work or residence permit, if Migrationsverket grants them an exception.
Such an exception is called the ‘at-und’ and usually gets processed automatically, reported SVT. However, only a third of asylum seekers aged 20-64 were given one in a year when Sweden received an unprecedented number of asylum claims.
“It was an incredible number of people applying for asylum in Sweden and so that we would be able to register all of them, we had to de-prioritize certain tasks, and that was the matter of jobs,” Migrationsverket officer Lisa Bergstrand told SVT.
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