A planned overhaul of Sweden's work permit system, with the aim of promoting permits for highly-skilled non-EU citizens and cutting waiting times for some applicants to 30 days, will be ready by the start of 2024, the Migration Agency has said..
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A leading Swedish business organisation is urging the next government – whenever it is formed – to step up the work of attracting and retaining crucial international talent.
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…
Sweden's government has decided to exempt only 27 professions from the new higher salary threshold for a work permit, choosing to follow the most restrictive recommendation made by the Migration Agency back in March.
Sweden's government has asked the Migration Agency to start from the premise that "the need for exemptions is limited" when drawing up its list of professions that should be excused the new higher salary threshold for a…
Sweden's parliament is not scheduled to debate plans to hike the minimum salary for a work permit to 90 percent of the median salary until March at the earliest, according to a calendar for 2026.
The leader of the Moderate Party's youth wing has called on the government to allow rejected asylum seekers who have successfully switched to a work permit to stay in Sweden, in a sign of a split in the ruling party over…
Sweden's government has finalised the text of a new law which will see the minimum eligible salary for a work permit hiked to 33,390 kronor a month from next June, but as yet there is no timetable on when it will be vote…
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…
For the Sweden Democrats' immigration spokesperson, Ludvig Aspling, the conclusions of a two-year government inquiry on revoking permanent residency mark the culmination of a decade of work. He tells The Local why he is…
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 fur…
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