The Social Democrats are planning to launch a government inquiry which will carry out a major review of the country's migration legislation, arguing that years of piecemeal reforms have made the rules unnecessarily compl…
Gripen intercepts Russian bomber over Baltic, Sweden's government launches inquiry into changing student loan rules, and other news from Sweden on Wednesday..
Swedish government launches inquiry to boost due process in social services cases – and a new submarine export deal is set to spark hiring spree in southern Sweden, including engineers. Here's the latest news..
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…
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed making it possible to strip dual citizens of Swedish citizenship if they are found guilty of weapons and explosives crimes, money-laundering, or benefit fraud, or have obtained c…
Sweden’s Migration Agency has for the first time approved applications for the government’s controversial 350,000 kronor “repatriation grant” – money handed out to refugees who wish to return to their home countries, a s…
Swedish PM says government to set up inquiry on teen deportations, Sweden open to hosting nuclear weapons in wartime, and other news from Sweden on Friday..
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed making both membership of and association with a criminal gang punishable offences, with police estimating that the laws will lead to an extra 700 people a year going to prison..
An inquiry into stricter citizenship laws proposed ending citizenship for notification for most children, bringing in a requirement for good conduct and language and civics knowledge. Will those proposals be part of Swed…
The chief of Sweden's Migration Agency has warned that a government inquiry that last autumn recommended revoking the permanent residency permits of as many as 100,000 foreign citizens made a "massive underestimate" on t…
The Church of Sweden has formally rejected a government inquiry's proposal that would see more than 100,000 people stripped of their permanent residency permits, condemning the proposal as "unreasonable", "disproportion…
The board of Sweden's ruling Moderate is calling on the party to vote on launching an inquiry into switch from the krona to the euro, although the party's vice-chair, finance minister Elisabeth Svantesson, doesn't think…
A government inquiry's new proposal to revoke the permanent residence permits of over 100,000 foreigners in Sweden is targeted at asylum migrants, but will also affect over a thousand people who got permanent residence t…
A new Centre Party leader, an inquiry reports on deporting suspected gang criminals without trial, and All Saints Day. Here's what's happening in Sweden in November..
Sweden’s migration minister says revoking permanent residence will only affect asylum migrants, while the Sweden Democrats claim it will even hit Swedes’ spouses. Both seem to be wrong, writes Nordic Editor Richard Orang…
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed revoking the permanent residency permits of some 120,000 people living in Sweden. It's not only people with asylum who are affected, but also some researchers and many Swiss peop…
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…
A full 18 months after a government inquiry proposed it, Sweden's government has finally announced plans to raise the salary threshold for a work permit, albeit to a slightly lower level than originally proposed. Here's…
In this week's podcast: Pressure on English schools, and what's rail travel like in Sweden? For Membership+ subscribers: inquiry recommends revoking permanent residency from people who came as refugees, and what are Swed…
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A Swedish government inquiry on Friday recommended enacting a new law which could lead to close to 120,000 people in Sweden being stripped of their permanent residency permits. Here's what you need to know..
Josephine Boswell, the former Sweden Democrat official who chaired the inquiry on stripping away existing permanent residency permits, acknowledges that doing so would be "highly invasive", but told The Local she believe…
A Swedish government inquiry has called for a new law which will potentially see as many as 180,000 people living in Sweden stripped of their permanent residency permits. They will then be allowed to apply for citizenshi…
A Swedish government inquiry is reportedly expected to recommend within days that the government move to downgrade permanent residency status to temporary for refugees and beneficiaries of the so-called gymnasium law..
The migration lawyer Tomas Fridh was 'upset' when a government inquiry report presented its proposed new package of family reunification rules as alleviating the problem of teen deportations. The truth is, he argues, tha…
A government-led inquiry recently proposed introducing a self-sufficiency requirement for family members of researchers moving to Sweden. What do we know about the proposal so far?.
A government-appointed inquiry recently proposed changes to Swedish family reunification permits – and a proposed law change which might put an end to so-called ‘teen deportations’..
A Swedish inquiry has proposed introducing a new two-year waiting period for family reunification in certain cases, as well as a self-sufficiency requirement for family members of researchers and holders of long-term EU…
The Swedish government has launched an inquiry over concerns about the country's low birth rate, with the aim of proposing concrete measures to improve it..
A government-appointed inquiry has concluded that there is no need for a national begging ban, despite demands from the Moderates and Sweden Democrats to introduce one..
The Swedish government's plan to tighten asylum rules to the strictest level allowable under EU law was supposed to be the crowning glory of its 'migration paradigm shift'. But the inquiry's first proposal could claim an…
Sweden should adopt harsher sentences in the face of organised crime and a surge in violence, the country's top police officer said as she delivered the results of a government-ordered inquiry..
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who chaired the agency managing adoptions to Sweden some 20 years ago, has said he's not ruling out an apology after an inquiry unveiled widespread abuses spanning several decades.…