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Syrian refugees in KRG wait for Family Unification to Europe
2021-06-04
[NPASYRIA] For more than two years, Zayna Muhammad, a refugee from Qamishli, northeast Syria and residing in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG), has been waiting for a good news from her husband, who is residing in Germany, to meet him again.

Muhammad has been residing in KRG with her four children for four years.

The wife, who thought that she could join her husband within months or at least, a year, is still waiting.

Every day, she calls her husband asking him about "procedures of reunification."

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
he always answers "be patient, we are working to obtain the permanent residency."

In April, Dr. Dindar Zebari, the KRG Coordinator for International Advocacy revealed that there are about 238,345 Syrian refugees in KRG.

Number of Syrian refugees in the KRG reached 241,682 until December of 2020, according to the latest statistics of the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

"BETTER LIFE AND FUTURE"
As a result of the atrocity of Syrian war, thousands of Syrian families resorted to the KRG for hope of heading to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
seeking "better life and future," according to many Syrian refugees.

Most of the families thought that one of the spouses, usually the husband, has to travel to a European country, where he can obtain a residency document that helps him to start reunification procedures to bring the rest of the family according to the laws of the residency country.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
it was more harder than planned.

Family Unification’s laws differ from one country to another in terms of the kinship, official documents required for (permanent or temporary residence), and material matters (house and salary) in the country of residence.

After her husband travelled to Germany, Sama al-Saleh (pseudonym), a Syrian lady residing in Erbil, is forced to work in a shop for ten hours on daily basis in order to secure expenses of her two children, whom she leaves with her old mother.

Whereas, her husband is not able to send money to his family, "because the money he receives from German government is not sufficient," according to what her husband told her.

Her husband is facing difficulty in finding a job as he has not obtained a permanent residency, which requires him to wait for extra two years.

Al-Saleh will continue her job until she receives "happy" news from her husband regarding obtaining residency and starting the family unification procedures.
Posted by:Fred

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