450 asylum seekers lose amnesty permits to fraud

Wednesday 08 September 2010

The immigration services has cancelled or withdrawn residency permits for 450 asylum seekers who made fraudulent applications under the 2007 amnesty, caretaker justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has told MPs.

Some 350 fraudulent applications were spotted during the application process and a further 100 were identitied after a permit had been given, the minister said in a statement.

The applications were made under the amnesty for some 28,000 long-term asylum seekers whose cases were still in dispute. The immigration service says those who have lost their permits used other people's identities to apply for permanent residency.

Several of them have already been jailed for up to six months.

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