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Illegal (Moroccan) interpreter at Belgian court | |
2007-07-25 | |
Ahmed T. is not in possession of residence documents so he is here illegally. Nevertheless, he has managed to work as an Arabic interpreter for the Antwerp court since 2003. Ahmed T. arrived in 1995 as a student in Antwerp. He got to know a Belgian woman and married her. This marriage allowed him to get the necessary residence papers. In 2000 the marriage was declared null and void because it was a marriage of convenience. As a result, his residence documents were revoked. In 2001 he was ordered to leave the country. Ahmed started legal proceedings at the Council of State to allow him to stay in Belgium after all. In 2003 he got the position of sworn interpreter for the Antwerp court. In 2005 he got married again. His wife, who had a daughter from him, later declared that it was just a marriage of convenience. | |
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