The Swedish government has posted the proposed text of a new law changing the rules for citizenship, set to come into force on June 6th ? and there are no transitional rules, meaning that people who apply before then could be assessed under the new requirements..
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An initiative filed by the Green Party calling for a new bill adding transitional rules to the upcoming stricter citizenship law has been voted down by a parliamentary committee in what the Green Party have called "a ser…
Swedish MPs on the committee in charge of processing immigration laws are set to meet at 10am to discuss the opposition's bid for a new vote on adding transitional provisions to the recently passed citizenship law.
At least three out of four opposition parties are demanding that parliament vote once again on the issue of transitional arrangements for the new stricter citizenship rules. The Local asked the parliamentary parties how…
Fair Transition has succeeded in pushing the campaign to add transitional rules to Sweden's upcoming citizenship law up the political agenda. But what chance does it have of actually changing the law?
The Local's reader Maria Imtiaz, who has been waiting almost seven years for Swedish citizenship, is pleading with decision-makers not to let the upcoming citizenship reforms sweep the rug out from under the feet of thos…
Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell has told The Local that the decision to implement new citizenship rules with no transitional period, against the advice of the Council on Legislation and an official inquiry, is…
The leader of Sweden's opposition Social Democrats has confirmed that the party will add transitional arrangements to the stricter citizenship rules which came into force in June, meeting the demands of the Fair Transiti…
The Green Party is taking an unusual step to get a new vote on citizenship transitional rules to happen in parliament, as the deadline for the imposition of new rules approaches.
Sweden's opposition parties are united on introducing transitional rules for citizenship if they win next September's election.
Sweden's Green Party has launched a 'committee initiative' in the parliament calling for a new vote on adding transitional provisions to the new citizenship law, after the populist Sweden Democrats won the vote by sendin…
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