This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Åsa Holmes, the head of the Swedish Migration Agency’s citizenship unit in Gothenburg..
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Fewer than 100 Swedish citizenship applications – and only 20 through naturalisation – were approved in July, the month after new and stricter citizenship rules came into force.
Sweden's government has announced that it will push ahead with plans to increase the residency requirement for citizenship from five years to eight, with the new rules applying retroactively. We want to hear whether they…
If the government is serious about its pledge to attract international talent, including transitional rules when Sweden rolls out next year's far-reaching citizenship reforms is the only way not to undermine that goal, w…
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…
On April 29th Swedish parliament voted through stricter citizenship laws. Because transitional measures were not included, the new laws will apply to all applications that are assessed from June 6th onwards – even applic…
The Local Sweden’s Deputy Editor Becky Waterton reflects on the community of citizenship applicants before running through the other stories The Local has covered this week.
Since April 1st, the Migration Agency has tightened up security checks on citizenship applications, including applications submitted prior to that date. Here's the kind of information they are asking for.
Senior Green Party MP Annika Hirvonen has told The Local she wants to allow everyone who applied for Swedish citizenship before June 6th – including those whose application has already been rejected – to be assessed unde…
A landmark decision against a citizenship rejected under the new rules that came into force in June has been appealed to Sweden's highest migration court, raising hopes that the parliament's decision not to include trans…
In the first of The Local's election interviews with the immigration spokespeople of Sweden's political parties, the Sweden Democrats' Ludvig Aspling downplays the impacts of new stricter work permit and citizenship rule…
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Matilda Molander, head of the green and liberal think tank Fores, shook up Sweden's political world last week with an article outlining the painful concessions the Sweden Democrats might need to make for the Centre Party…
Sweden on Wednesday charged a man described by media as a top gang boss with masterminding a slew of violent attacks, as the country sees a reduction in its decade-long organised crime wave.
Some 44 members of the European Parliament from 15 different EU countries and six political groups have called on EU transport ministers to break the deadlock and get the plan to end the seasonal changing of the clocks m…
The Social Democrats, Centre Party, Green Party, Christian Democrats, and Liberals have agreed to govern Region Stockholm together.
Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has been tasked with exploring the prospects for her party's stated ideal: a centrist government led by Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson. But the Liberals have alre…
Immigration was at the heart of the political debate in the past four years, but the voices of immigrants themselves were comparatively rarely centred in the media coverage, an analysis by The Fix Advisory & Research in…
Liberals vow to block Magdalena Andersson's return as prime minister, third teenager arrested after Stockholm shooting, and more news from Sweden on Wednesday.
In this week's Politics in Sweden, Richard Orange argues that only one question will determine which candidate gets to be Sweden's next prime minister: the ultimate wishes of Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist…
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Brenda and Marcus Ramström, a couple in western Sweden who spoke to The Local just days before she was forced to return to her native Brazil following a Migrat…
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