An article claims Iceland government will pay you €4,500 a month to marry an Icelandic woman. That’s nearly $5,500 a month or $65k a year!
All you have to do is marry an Icelander and move to Iceland.
The story says the government is trying to boost its demographics because the number of children is dwindling there.
This story’s been around for a couple of years, so a newspaper in Reykjavik actually published a story called “No, the government will not pay you to marry an Icelander.”
The story says Iceland actually has 1,007 men for every thousand women and the Icelandic government absolutely does not have any kind of grant in place for immigrants who marry Icelanders, regardless of gender.
However, it was later called as a widely-circulated hoax article.
First of all, the latest population data actually shows slightly more men than women in Iceland, with 1,007 men for every 1,000 women in general; in Reykjavík, there are 985 men for every 1,000 women, but in the countryside the ratio is 1,129 men for every 1,000 women.
Second, the Icelandic government absolutely does not have any kind of grant in place for immigrants who marry Icelanders, regardless of gender.
As such, if you do want to marry an Icelander, you should do so without the expectation of a cash payout, because none will be forthcoming.
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