Sweden's Migration Minister has promised The Local to look into why Sweden has ordered more Brits to leave since Brexit than any other EU country.

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A former Moderate Party defence minister has told The Local that opposition parties are "quite correct" to accuse the Sweden Democrats of cheating in the vote on transitional rules for citizenship at ...

Riksdagspartierna är långt ifrån att enas efter kvittningsbråket. – Ärligt talat, jag är inte säker på att vi hittar någon lösning, säger en central Tidökälla. Nu kan Expressen visa upp överenskommels...

Talmannen samlar i morgon partiernas gruppledare till möte efter kvittningskaoset där SD tog in extra ledamöter. Nu visar protokoll att SD gjort likadant – vid minst två tidigare viktiga omröstningar....

The far-right Sweden Democrat party have been accused of cheating the parliamentary system to block an opposition proposal to add transitional rules to the citizenship law, by sending two MPs to vote ...

The former Sweden Democrat MP Elsa Widding has come out in favour of including transitional provisions in the upcoming stricter citizenship bill, arguing that "you can't change the rules mid-match". B...

Today Swedish MPs will debate and vote on a citizenship bill set to affect the lives of more than 100,000 prospective citizens. The Local is reporting live from parliament. Join the conversation here.

On April 29th, Swedish MPs will have a choice. They can vote in favour of transitional rules for citizenship, or condemn many of the 100,000 in the queue to a rejection. They must choose the former, w...

Sweden's border police requested that a former work permit holder be deported as soon as possible because he was too intelligent and was posing legal problems for the authorities, in an email seen by ...

Chandra and Vibha are one of many highly educated – and high-earning – working families reevaluating their commitment to Sweden in light of the government's plan to apply big citizenship rule changes ...

When Sweden first started talking about changing its citizenship laws, we at The Local immediately identified one issue as particularly important – and likely to go largely unnoticed by the Swedish pr...

Två förslag från regeringen riskerar att begränsa yttrandefriheten för utländska medborgare som lever i Sverige. Nils Funcke varnar för att forcera igenom ytterligare ”hafsverk” till lagstiftning.

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The Local and several other Swedish news sites have made the decision to name Migration Minister Johan Forssell as the government minister whose close relative has been linked to white supremacist groups. The Local Sweden's editor explains the decision.

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Foreigners in Sweden spoke of frustration and despair after a de facto citizenship freeze added even more time to their long waits in the Migration Agency’s queue.

Sweden's processing rate of new citizenships has more than halved after new security checks were introduced, with the Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) unable to approve applications in standard cas...

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Sweden’s union for registered nurses is urging the government to reconsider scrapping the so-called ‘spårbyte’ immigration path, its deputy chair writes in an opinion piece for The Local.

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Swedish journalists excel at portraying the victims of immigration crackdowns in other countries – but domestic coverage leaves a lot to be desired, The Local’s Paul O’Mahony argues.

A Migration Agency official has warned that Sweden is changing 'the rules of the game for a lot of people during an ongoing process' by fast-tracking the abolition of so-called 'track changes' through...

Tusentals asylsökande tog den enda chansen efter avslag – de bytte spår och skaffade arbetstillstånd. Ändå tvingas de snart lämna landet efter ett...

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A major inquiry into tightening the requirements for Swedish citizenship presented its final report to the government on Tuesday, January 14th. But what do those plans entail?

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Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell has told The Local that the government is deliberating over its options for blocking citizenship until tougher rules come into force.