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The refugees must be mapped in the reception centers. It delays the settlement.

– We have waited a long time and been ready. The districts want to settle the refugees and wonder where they will end up. I do that too, says Oslo City Councilor Rina Mariann Hansen (Labor Party).

City councilor Rina Mariann Hansen (Labor Party) asks where the refugees will be settled in Oslo.

She thought Oslo would get the first Ukrainian refugees before Easter.

– But we have only received 14-15 pr. now. That is a very small proportion of the number we are ready to receive.

This is what Rina Mariann Hansen, City Councilor for Work, Integration and Social Services in Oslo, says.

She thinks the settlement is going too slowly. Oslo Municipality has announced that they can initially receive 2,000 refugees.

– It has long been clear that the municipalities are ready to settle the refugees that the Directorate for Integration and Diversity (Imdi) has requested, she says. She points out that the refugees now live in “reception of varying quality” instead of having a more stable life as a resident of a municipality.

– When the municipalities are ready to settle, we should get the refugees. Many of them are children, she points out.

Gets no explanation

Hansen herself says that she does not fully understand where the bottleneck in the system is, whether it is in Imdi or in the UDI.

– I think it’s UDI. That is our impression, she says and asks if it is the mapping of the refugees at the reception centers that takes time.

Nearly 14,000 refugees have so far come from Ukraine. Just under 7,000 of them have had their case processed and received collective protection. Before they can be settled, they must be asked some identifying questions.

– I do not see why it should take so long, Hansen says. She recalls that the receptions were created to be a “very, very temporary residence”. Hansen suggests that it may be better if these questions are asked after the refugees have settled, if the survey delays the settlement.

– Maybe this mapping can be done in a more flexible way, she asks.

The mapping a bottleneck

The status on Thursday was that only 173 of the refugees were residents.

– There has been a bottleneck associated with the survey of refugees living in reception centers.

This is what State Secretary Astrid Bergmål (Labor Party) in the Ministry of Justice and Emergency Preparedness says.

She says it is important for the government to settle the refugees as quickly as possible in the municipalities and suggests that a simplified mapping solution contributes to it being able to go faster than usual.

The simplified solution is that the Ukrainians are asked three questions, and not 24, which is common.

In future, the UDI will be able to map between 200 and 450 pr. today, in addition to Imdi mapping those who live privately until settlement.

Refugees at reception are mapped there

The purpose of the survey is to find out if:

  • The refugees have family in Norway that they want to live near
  • they have health challenges
  • other needs for facilitation.

The latter can, for example, be a specially adapted home.

– People who live in the emergency accommodation are mapped by reception staff, says director of Reception and return at the UDI, Borghild Fløtre.

She states that per. Today, 3,032 Ukrainians are in reception who have been granted a residence permit and who are ready to be mapped.

– Imdi and the UDI have worked closely together to simplify the mapping in reception, so that this can take place as quickly as possible, she says.

Must train employees

Fløtre says that the survey “has required adjustments and measures.”

– The emergency accommodation has been established quickly and with new employees who have needed training, she says. She adds that the survey will take place at the same time as the residents need close follow-up on arrival.

She states that just over 400 people will be mapped during this week.

Oslo can take over the survey

Director Libe Rieber-Mohn of Imdi says that everyone who is ready to settle down will be. She states that Oslo Municipality can carry out the survey itself, if the municipality so wishes.

– We are ready to cooperate with Oslo to make it happen. We are just as busy as the municipality, in getting the refugees into a safe environment, she says.

She points out that the survey is important for two reasons:

1. It can contribute to the municipalities being able to facilitate the refugees in the best possible way.

2. It can contribute to the refugees e.g. receives the best possible adapted health care and / or resides in the vicinity of any other family.

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