Immigration officials in Norway have granted temporary residence permission to the mother-in-law of Mullah Krekar

Nina Berglund:

The case, reported in newspaper VG on Tuesday, has stunned and angered politicians, and bewildered many other would-be immigrants who've struggled with their own efforts to secure residence permission for themselves or their families. For them, the permission won by Krekar's family seems to defy logic, and all the rules.

Officials at immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) granted Krekar's mother-in-law permission to stay in Norway even though Krekar himself is considered a national security threat and is supposed to finally be deported soon, and even though the granting of residence permission defied government policy.

Most angry is former government minister Erna Solberg, who gave the immigration agency UDI explicit instructions that it could only grant residence permission to those who had a job, could support themselves and their families, had no criminal record and who could verify their identities.

All others, Solberg decreed, must be sent back home.

Instead, UDI granted residence permission for at least a year to 182 Iraqi Kurds. Mullah Krekar's mother-in-law, reports newspaper VG, was among them, and she's now living with Krekar and his family in Oslo, who have received state support for years.

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