The Directorate of Immigration has considered whether the appellant meets the requirements necessary to obtain a visa according to the Immigration Act section 10.
According to the Immigration Act section 10 second paragraph, an application for a visa may be rejected if considered necessary due to immigration regulatory considerations.
Where our and the local Schengen Cooperation’s experience with specific groups and nationalities indicates that many fail to leave Norway or the Schengen area upon expiration of their visas, it has become our practice to issue a visa only in certain cases. Probability of return is assessed individually, and importance is attached to both the emigration potential in the applicant’s country of origin and to the individual factors regarding the applicant.
We have noted that the appellant comes from a country with a potential for emigration due to its social and economic situation. In our experience, many appellant’s from Thailand wish to resettle in other countries.
The appellant is a woman age 23. She has stated to be unmarried and with no children. She is not stated to be in regular employment or to have property or other financial commitments in her home country. Furthermore, it has not been submitted a UDI guarantee form. The Directorate of Immigration give this decisive weight.
After considering these aspects of the appeal, the Directorate of Immigration finds that the appellant lacks the necessary ties to her country of origin.
These factors have been assessed against the need to visit Norway.
We have considered whether there are any welfare grounds that might outweigh the low probability of return. The appellant is not going to visit a close family member in Norway. Pursuant to the Immigration Regulations section 3-6 second paragraph, only parents, children and siblings are regarded as close family. The appellant wishes to visit her cousin. Hence, we do not consider this a satisfactory welfare reason that outweighs the appellant’s lack of the necessary ties to her country of origin.
Concluding remarks
After considering all aspects of the appeal, the Directorate does not find the appellant to have sufficient ties to her home country, to outweigh the risk of the appellant remaining in the country past the date set by an issued visa.
Neither are the conditions for a national visa pursuant to the Immigration Act section 11, satisfied.
We kindly request the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Bangkok to notify the appellant of this decision.