Is it true that immigrants in Iceland pay € 5,000 for marriage with Icelanders?

Information that € 5,000 is paid for marriage with Icelanders in this country for several years. We checked whether this is really so.

On the Internet, a video with names like the first thing to marry Icelanders first fall "Marriage of Icelander 5000 euros as a gift". But what It is said in articles published on different portals and repeating each other almost one V one:

“Iceland will pay € 5,000 a month to immigrants who took the wives of Icelandic girls.

In Iceland, a catastrophic demographic situation - there are almost twice as many women here than men. Understanding that at such a pace the island will soon turn into the kingdom of the Amazons, the Iceland government decided to pay € 5,000 to each immigrant who will take a local girl in his wives. ”

Information that for marriage with a resident of Iceland, men will give € 5,000 for the Internet for the fifth year. Its actively distribute Until now, both on Russian -speaking sites and in world community on social networks (in different languages). The latest texts in Russian devoted to this issue, Date 2020.

For the first time, such information appeared around June 2016 and began to spread on various African sites. The fact of the Snopes succeeded To track the path of this story: most likely, it arose on the Spirit Whispers blog. Here's what the original post looked like (spelling changed):

“Shocking news about Iceland, incredible, but true! <...> ... due to a large imbalance between women and men, the Iceland government came to a decision to give € 5000 a month to immigrants who marry Icelandic girls; Priority will be given to the population of North Africa. ”

There were a lot of people who want to take this opportunity.

In the same month, the Icelandic media began to report that the inhabitants of Iceland are filled with requests for friends on Facebook by men-nucleuists. The title of one of the articles devoted to this problem and released on The Reykjavik Grapevine, in large letters I read it: "No, the government will not pay you to marry the inhabitants of Iceland." 

In the article, the publication called the information a fake and drew attention to the fact that, according to the official data, the number of men in Iceland, on the contrary, is more than the number of women.

This did not stop foreigners who want to marry Icelanders. They began to fill up with requests of the embassies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland. In August 2016, Icelandic sites are still Tried To convince readers that this is a fake.

In the same year, “on behalf of the Iceland Embassy”, this information was refuted by the Denmark Embassy in Egypt (this department was responsible for visa requests to Iceland in the country). “Please note that information about government grants that are being married on Icelandic women is not true,” - is not true. Wrote Embassy on its Facebook page.

In 2018, about this through one of the Icelandic media declared The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland categorically denies all the information and rumors about marriage for money." Since 2016, Fake has already refuted many Factsching portals. But information about this continues to appear so far, freely circulating On the Internet.

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What do our verdicts mean?

Read on the topic:

1. DOES Iceland Pay $ 5,000 per month to Immigrants Who Marry Icelandic Women?
2. No, The Government Will Not Pay You to Marry An Icelander
3. Iceland's Government Has Repeatedly Refated this Hoax Has Circulated SincE At Least 2016
4. Iceland Not Paying Immigrants to Marry Country’s Women - And Has No Shortage of Men