Swedish businesses have welcomed plans to allow people with work permits to change employers without a new permit, and to double the time they have to find a job if laid off. But they warn against government plans to further raise the minimum salary for a work permit..
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Business groups have called on Sweden's government to decide on the jobs exempted from the new minimum salary for work permits "as soon as possible", warning that the continuing uncertainty makes it hard to recruit, hamp…
Sweden's parliament is set to vote on Wednesday afternoon to impose in a new minimum salary for work permits set at 90 percent of Sweden's median wage, with the new requirement in force from June 1st.
Johan Britz, Sweden's Labour market minister, has called for a new government agency specifically for handling work permit applications and at the same time blamed the government's harsh rhetoric on immigration for deter…
The number of new work permits issued by the Swedish Migration Agency is down by a fifth so far this year, bringing it to less than half the the number issued in 2022, the year the Tidö government got into power, accordi…
Sweden's government has published a detailed list of its proposed changes to work permit rules, including a new 90 percent salary threshold, a requirement for full health insurance, and better rules for high-skilled work…
In an interview with The Local, Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell indicated that the government has not yet decided whether it will further raise the work permit salary threshold from 80 percent of the median sal…
A Swedish Migration Court has ruled that the Migration Agency was right to reject citizenship for an applicant who failed the new eight-year residency rule, despite having applied under the previous rules. The landmark c…
The leader of Sweden's Centre Party has said that scrapping the salary threshold for Swedish work permits would be 'one of the first decisions' that would be taken if a centrist government takes power in Sweden.
If your application for Swedish citizenship is at risk of getting rejected because it will be judged on the new rules which didn't exist when you applied, can you get a refund on the 1500 kronor application fee?
New salary thresholds aren't the only changes for work permit holders in Sweden that began on June 1st: the changed law also includes expanded possibilities for work permits to be denied because of problems linked to the…
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