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Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (HS) followed up (siirryt toiseen palveluun) on a story about the Immigration Service Migri's mishandling of a Mongolian nurse's residence permit application.

The nurse, Anudari Boldbaatar, had been living and working in Finland and according to the paper, Migri rejected her residence permit application on incorrect grounds, and ruled that she should be deported.

Now, HS reports, following the completion of a probe into the procedures taken in the case, two senior Migri officials were handed written reprimands about incorrectly rejecting the nurse's application as well as concealing the reasons behind the decision.

"The shortcomings of the overall decision were so significant that we ended up with two written reprimands. The mistake was big for the agency, but only part of that mistake was due to the employees," Migri's Director General, Ilkka Haahtela, told the paper.

The senior inspectors who made the decision have an official responsibility and duty to examine and carry out such decisions with care, according to the paper.

Haahtela called for the launch of an investigation of Boldbaatar's case in December, HS explained.

Before that, HS reported on 10 December that Boldbaatar's residence permit application was rejected on incorrect grounds in December 2020.

That decision was based on a suspected forgery of a bank statement. However it was found that the forgery suspicions were incorrect because the officials did not know how to interpret the bank statement correctly.

At the time, the agency concealed the basic reasons behind its rejection of the application. Migri also asked police to investigate their allegations, accusing Boldbaatar of forgery.

Boldbaatar applied to Helsinki Administrative Court for leave to appeal the decision and the case was also examined by the prosecutor's office.

However, the prosecutor decided not to press charges against the nurse, stating that "there are no probable reasons to support the suspect's guilt," the paper explained.

Boldbaatar finally left Finland after going through a two-year legal process to overturn the decision.

Following an internal investigation, Migri admitted that mistakes had been made in the case regarding both the interpretation of the law and in their procedures.

Migri chief Haahtela said agency officials were given new guidelines about examining the documents of resident permit applicants.

At that time, training about those guidelines had just started and Migri officials were instructed that special attention should be paid to calculation errors, according to Haahtela.

Due to the errors made in Boldbaatar's case, Migri has launched a separate legality checking process.

A recent such internal audit found there were procedural errors and quality problems detected in nine percent of negative decisions about extended residence permits made by the agency last year.

Russian threats

Russia has again threatened to take countermeasures if Nato steps foot on Finnish soil, according to tabloid Iltalehti (siirryt toiseen palveluun) (IL).

At a press conference on Wednesday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia will not accept the US military's presence in Finland.

"We closely monitor Nato's plans for Finland. We confirm that Russia will take both military, technical and other types of countermeasures to curb the threats to national security that appear in this context," Zakharova said, according to Russian state media Tass.

Helsingin Sanomat reported (siirryt toiseen palveluun) on Monday that Finland and the US were negotiating a defence agreement which would allow US troops to use Finland's land and military bases for drills and equipment storage.

Moscow's Åland complaints

Russian officials on Åland have contacted the Finnish foreign affairs ministry, in a complaint about vandalism directed at the Russian consulate, the ministry has confirmed.

That's according to a report in Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet (siirryt toiseen palveluun) (HBL) on Thursday.

Russian state news agency Tass initially reported that the consulate officials asked the Finnish government to take actions about the alleged vandalism at the facility.

Russian ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said on Wednesday that a group of people in the early hours of May Day threw an "explosive noise device" and other objects onto the consulate's territory, posing a danger to the life and health of its diplomatic staff.

HBL said the Finnish ministry confirmed that it was aware of the incident and that the Russian Embassy has contacted the ministry.

"The case is regrettable and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs takes vandalism against diplomatic and consular property seriously. It is important that the competent authorities investigate what happened," the ministry told HBL in a written statement.

Åland police told HBL that it has started a preliminary investigation about the incident.

Winter's late revenge?

Iltalehti (siirryt toiseen palveluun) suggested that winter isn't through with Finland just yet, even though it's already the beginning of May.

"It will be cold, especially on Thursday and Friday," Foreca meteorologist Joanna Rinne told the paper.

She said that even people in southern Finland should brace themselves for the possibility of local sleet and snow showers and slippery road conditions.

Overnight frost conditions are expected across the country too, according to Rinne's forecast.

"In the south, the precipitation will include rain, sleet and snow flurries, in central areas mostly as sleet or snow. It will be cloudy to mostly cloudy in Lapland and there may also be some snow around northern Lapland," she explained.

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Vietnam Visa Information

Though Vietnamese tourist visas are generally valid for thirty days, it is now easy to get a visa extension in most major tourist destinations, at tourist offices or tour operators.

Now visitors from following countries - Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden are exempted from requiring visas when they enter, exit or stay in Vietnam for less than 15 days.

Whether you need a business visa or a tourist visa, the process is generally the same. The most common way to get a visa is to contact the Vietnamese Embassy or Consulate office in your country of residence or in your travels before entering Vietnam.

For a tourist visa, you will need to submit:

1) Entry permit form

2) To photos (usually 4cm x 6cm or 3 cm x 4 cm)

3) Your original passport

4) Visa fee

The form and the fee can vary by country, so please check directly the Vietnamese embassy or consulate to which you are applying.

A business visa usually also requires a letter of support from your sponsor agency or company in Vietnam.

In person, the process usually takes 2-3 days, and by mail, the process usually takes 2-3 weeks, depending on the service you use, although times can vary considerably by embassy or consulate. If you are mailing, please note that you need to make arrangements to have your passport with visa returned to you.

For assistance, you can process your visa through a travel agency or tour company in Vietnam, with an additional fee, although this is not usually necessary unless you need visa on arrival services.

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Commentary: Anti-Israel activists who criticize police exchange programs are trying to exploit Black pain

Last night, I received messages from a few people about their concern over a very mendacious opinion piece in the San Diego Union Tribune (“UT”) written by a local UCSD professor; a piece that blames Israel for the “militarization” of American police departments, as well as for excessive force cases against African-Americans by U.S. law enforcement.In response, I immediately wrote the op-ed editor for the UT who informed me that if I could get him a draft piece on the subject matter before 1:00 p.m. today, he would see if they could publish it. Well, with the help of the amazing research staff at Stand With Us, who sent me links to all of the facts referenced in this article (as I was traveling today and yesterday on a family vacation), I was able to meet the UT deadline and get this piece published.

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Terrence Floyd, second from right, is comforted in Minneapolis where his brother George Floyd died while in police custody. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

International police training exchange programs between U.S. police departments and foreign police departments exist with dozens of other countries, including both democracies and dictatorships. Yet anti-Israel activists blame police exchange programs with Israel for the killing of George Floyd and other African Americans by U.S. police. This attempt to exploit Black pain to gain sympathy for one side in the far away and complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict deserves exposure.

Since it first declared its independence in 1948, the modern state of Israel has been dealing with terrorist attacks on its civilian population. During the Second Intifada (2000-2005), Palestinian terror groups sent suicide bombers into Israeli cafes, restaurants, markets, bars and buses. Some 1,100 Israelis, overwhelmingly civilian, were killed and thousands more were seriously maimed and disabled.

Before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, most U.S. police departments had little practical counterterrorism experience or expertise. Afterwards, American police realized they had a pressing need to learn more on how to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks, and Israel (sadly) had that knowledge and experience. Yet the U.S. works with numerous other countries in counterterrorism activities and training, including through international bodies such as the United Nations and Interpol.

In today’s world, international police training exchanges are the norm. U.S. law enforcement personnel participate in these police exchanges with Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Croatia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Northern Macedonia, the United Kingdom and many others.

One such exchange program ignored by anti-Israel activists is called the China-U.S. Joint Liaison Group on Law Enforcement Cooperation. It includes conferences organized by the Chinese International Law Enforcement Training Program of the Criminal Investigation Police University of China. Chinese police enforce China’s one-party dictatorial rule, which has incarcerated some 1 million Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims in concentration camps.

Another important factor is that in the U.S. there are about 1.1 million police personnel — including about 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers — employed by about 18,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. This includes hundreds of state and local law enforcement academies that provide basic training to some 45,000 recruits per year. Only a few thousand, a fraction of 1%, have participated in these police exchange programs in Israel, which only began after 9/11.

As a former New York City police officer, I can attest that the specific counterterrorism and emergency response training, which Israel provides, has no connection to the issues related to excessive force in the U.S. Plainly many of these problems pre-date 9/11 by literally hundreds of years. And, if anything, many of these problems stem from an undertrained police force, not an overly trained one.

In the days after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, anti-Israel activists began a campaign aimed at blaming Israel for Floyd’s death. They cited Amnesty International and claimed that a 2012 counterterrorism conference co-sponsored by the FBI and the local Israeli consulate “trained” police in the horrid knee on the neck method employed by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin.

Soon, this false accusation was repeated around the world, including in the United Kingdom.

British TV Channel 4 fact-checked and debunked these claims, reporting that Amnesty International told a British paper, “the precise nature of the training offered to U.S. police forces by Israeli officials is not something we’ve documented. … Allegations that U.S. police were taught tactics of ‘neck kneeling’ by Israeli secret services is not something we’ve ever reported.”

Further, the Minneapolis Police Department permitted officers to use “an arm or leg” as part of a neck restraint in a policy dating back at least to October 2010, before the 2012 conference hosted by the FBI and Israeli consulate.

Israel critics have gone so far as to claim that the neck kneeling restraint is somehow a uniquely Israeli tactic. Setting aside that this technique is actually not taught by any Israeli police or military unit, there are in fact numerous other countries with which the U.S. has police training exchanges that routinely use this technique. From the anti-Israel crowd, not a single word of criticism is heard about that.

Anti-Israel activists are attempting to exploit the pain and anger over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and so many others to manipulate people to join them in their hatred of Israel. This is an ideological hijacking. It not only distracts from the much-needed discussion about police practices, but it also serves to divide communities and turn them against each other, at a time when we should all be focused on coming together to bring about positive change.

Danzig is a lawyer who lives in Encinitas. He was a drill sergeant and combat conditioning and hand-to-hand combat instructor with the Israeli Defense Forces from 1982 to 1985 and a New York City police officer from 1989 to 1992.

Micha Mitch Danzig

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News on Countries of Asylum

Global

Despite increased humanitarian crises, developed world sees drop in asylum requests

Distress cases in the central Mediterranean reach record high in past three months

Refugee movements in South East Asia decrease, but threats on their journey rise

Assembly of African Migrants in Tapachula accuses Mexican authorities of discrimination and racism, demands asylum in the US

African migrants are trying to cross North America to seek asylum in Canada

LGBTQI+ refugees in Africa struggle to find a country to call home

Africa

ETHIOPIA: Eritrean refugees defy border closures only to find hardship in Ethiopia

LIBYA: Migrant shot dead as Libyan coast guards intercept boat highlights concern about EU cooperation

RWANDA

Hundreds of vulnerable migrants flown in from detention centres in Libya, given asylum seeker status 

African refugees evacuated to Rwanda from Libya tell horror stories, still dream of Europe

SOUTH AFRICA 

South Africa’s failing asylum system is exacerbating xenophobia

UNHCR to step up support as xenophobic violence against refugees and asylum seekers increases

UGANDA: Uganda suspends SIM card registration for refugees

Americas

MEXICO

Mexican asylum seekers at multiple US border crossings grow frustrated with waiting

Mexico curbs undocumnted migrant entry into USA following Trump’s tariff threat

UN: More resources needed for Mexico's asylum agency

Migrants briefly block busy Mexico-US border at Matamoros before reaching deal 

Number of migrants arrested at Mexico border highest in over a decade

VENEZUELA: Philanthropic group spotlights forgotten Venezuelan refugee crisis

USA

How Trump’s bilateral deals with Central America undermine the US asylum system

Trump administration emboldened on immigration agenda in wake of Supreme Court ruling

Trump administration imposes 18,000 limit on refugees, the lowest ever

USA seeking to make Cubans seek asylum in Honduras

ACLU calls on Homeland Security to stop turning away pregnant asylum-seekers

Tent courtrooms on Texas border use videoconference to process migrants in Mexico 

Asia

BANGLADESH

UN experts concerned by crackdown at Rohingya refugee camps 

Bangladesh restricts internet in Rohingya camps, disrupting emergency and humanitarian aid 

Asia Pacific

AUSTRALIA

Economic report: Raising Australia's refugee intake would boost economy by billions

Opposition: Government must release “secret paper” on improving refugee conditions

Government to appeal a federal court favoring medical transfer of asylum seekers 

Increasing number of asylum seekers flying in raises concern of migrant trafficking

UN urges Australia to cease discrimination against refugees with disabilities

Asylum seekers moved to Port Moresby face poverty, insecurity

Surge in appeals as asylum seeker visa refusals increase 

INDONESIA

Refugees and asylum seekers increasingly facing detention and eviction 

Displaced people in Indonesia take education into their own hands

NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand lifts “family link” condition, accepts more refugees from Africa and Middle East

Europe

UN: Migrant, refugee death toll in Mediterranean tops 1,000 for sixth year

Chechen death squads stalking Europe leave dissident asylum seekers exposed 

Refugees and other migrants know the risks they will face in their journeys as options for getting to Europe grow increasingly dangerous

EU parliament votes against improving search and rescue for refugees in Mediterranean

EU keeps asylum seekers at a distance in Africa

Unprecedented increase in European Asylum Support Office work in four countries

Handful of European countries join temporary Mediterranean boat rescue plan 

EU signs agreement with Montenegro on joint border control with Frontex 

EU urges Turkey to meet its agreement and readmit asylum seekers from Greece 

BOSNIA: International Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis in Bosnian camp

FINLAND: Finland raises its quota to receive 850 refugees from Syria and Africa in 2020 

FRANCE

French police clear ‘security hazard’ migrant camp

Three years on from the Jungle,Calais uses force to stop another camp forming

GERMANY: Chechen family in Germany fights deportation to Russia

GREECE

Riots at Greek refugee camp on Lesbos after fatal fire

New bill threatens to limit asylum seekers’ access to protection in Greece

With new arrivals surge, Greece moves refugees to mainland, stricter with asylum seekers

Greece pressures EU states to take in more refugees as asylum seekers

HUNGARY: Government extends state of crisis to keep migrants and asylum seekers out of its borders 

IRELAND: Ireland wins award for community sponsorship of refugees

ITALY

Police arrest former captors recognized by asylum seekers in migrant detention center

Italy agrees to list of 13 safe countries of origin

SPAIN: Rights of asylum seekers deteriorating at border with Morocco

UNITED KINGDOM

Home Office allows Zimbabwean officials to interview political asylum seekers from their country

Thousands join call against planned cuts to vital refugee service

Teenage refugee was fourth of Eritrean friendship group to kill himself, highlighting trauma of escape

Middle East

JORDAN

Jordan has issued over 153,000 work permits to Syrian refugees since 2016

Tens of thousands of Syrians return home but many more are afraid to go back

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Five men have been arrested “on suspicion of aiding and abetting terrorist offenses,” Sweden’s SAPO domestic security agency said Tuesday, adding the case was related to the burning of a Quran in January in Stockholm and that an attack is not imminent.

In a statement, Susanna Trehörning, deputy head of SAPO’ s counterterror unit said that the case had “international links to violent Islamist extremism.” Swedish public radio said the suspects had links to the Islamic State group.

Trehörning said that Tuesday's arrests came following "extensive intelligence and investigative work “after the protests that were directed at Sweden in connection with the high-profile burning of the Quran in January and where there are international calls for attacks.”

She told Swedish broadcaster SVT that the suspects were in ”a planning phase” and that they “had not immediately thought of doing anything here and now.”

In January, a far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Islamic holy book.

That angered millions of Muslims around the world and triggered protests. NATO-member Turkey said it wouldn't allow Sweden to join the military alliance as long as the Scandinavian country permits such protests to take place. In Sweden, such demonstrations are protected by freedom of speech.

All NATO members need to ratify in their parliaments the accession requests by Sweden.

Finland which sought NATO membership at the same time as Sweden is expected to join the alliance later Tuesday after all 30 member states ratified the Finns' accession request, but Turkey is holding out on ratifying Sweden's membership.

In February, Swedish police denied permission for protests involving the burning of a Quran, fearing they could provoke terror attacks or attacks against Swedish interests.

On Tuesday, Sweden’s Administrative Court ruled that freedom of assembly and demonstration are constitutionally protected rights and overturned the police decision, saying security risk concerns were not enough to limit the right to demonstrate.

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Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat highlighted that people from across Asia are increasingly coming to Finland to work or study.

The development, according to the paper, has seen an array of Asian languages become the most-common foreign tongues spoken in the greater Helsinki area.

Not long ago, the most common foreign languages in the region were spoken by people from Russia, Ukraine and other countries that belonged to the former Soviet Union.

HS defined Asian languages as those spoken in countries of South, East and West Asia. Middle Eastern languages were included in a separate group with languages spoken in North Africa.

In 2020, there were just under 40,000 people who spoke an Asian language in the capital area. Within two years, that figure grew to nearly 48,000. Meanwhile, in 2022, there were around 46,700 people who spoke Russian or another language of a country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Statistics provided by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) on residence permits and work-based residence permits also reflected this trend across Finland, but the agency did not zero in on Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa.

Government initiatives aiming to promote work-based migration and attract foreign students to Finland mean that this trend of Asian immigration to the capital region is poised to increase in coming years, with HS anticipating that 10,000 more people from Asian countries will live in the region by 2030.

According to the City of Helsinki, the most common Asian languages spoken in the region in 2022 included Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai.

Stubb's new ride

Tabloid Ilta-Sanomat noted that president-elect Alexander Stubb does not currently own a car. Rather he has previously said that he borrows his wife Suzanne Innes-Stubb's electric car on the rare occasions when he has to drive.

However, the soon-to-be president will now have two cars — an armoured Mercedes sedan and an armoured minivan to shuttle him around as he carries out his presidential duties.

IS wrote that the sedan is nearly 12 years old and the Office of the President told IS that the vehicle is nearing the end of its life cycle. The newspaper described the car which served outgoing President Sauli Niinistö during his two terms as a "war horse".

The new sedan is expected to cost upwards of 500,000 euros.

Free rent and driving licences for high schoolers

As Finland's population becomes increasingly urban, smaller towns have tried to woo families with baby bonuses over the last decade or so.

Rural affairs newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus wrote about how small municipalities aren't just trying to attract families, they're also offering incentives to encourange young people to finish high school in their communities.

Since kids in Finland are not limited by geography when choosing which high schools to attend, some smaller towns want locals to stay put and maybe even attract outsiders as well.

The municipalities of Merikarvia, Paltamo and Puolanka started paying graduates' driving licence costs. In Finland, obtaining a driving licence is relatively expensive and can cost around 1,000 euros.

Other small towns like Pomarkku, Vesanto and Pihtipudas take a different approach granting thousand euro scholarships to graduating high schoolers.

Some municipalities, like Rautjärvi, offer a free rental apartment to students during their studies.

All of these towns are small with only a few thousand inhabitants at most and have seen the student bodies in their high schools dwindle over the past few decades. The hope is that these types of incentives might reverse the ongoing trend.

However, Kyösti Värri, a special researcher at Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, told MT that these types of economic incentives might do little to curb the problems facing small town Finland.

"It doesn't help to use financial carrots to attract students from neighbouring municipalities if the total number of students in the area is falling", Värri said.