Hundreds of Brits who failed to secure post-Brexit residency in Denmark will be given a second chance. Sweden should offer the same kind of amnesty, writes The Local’s editor Emma Löfgren.

Sweden is not planning to follow Denmark’s lead and let Brits who missed the deadline reapply for post-Brexit residence status, a government spokesperson has told The Local.

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.

This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra is unlocked for all listeners and features interviews with four applicants for Swedish citizenship.

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...

This series covers in depth reports by The Local Sweden on how migrants have been held in detention centres around the country. The series looks at shortcomings in recruitment and training of staff, t...

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 ...

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson claims the issue of teen deportations affects only a few "individual cases". We know from our readers that it's more common than that, but statistics are hard t...

With less than a month until parliament is set to vote on Sweden's biggest citizenship overhaul in years, Spotify Workers Unionen and the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO) have thr...

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.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday announced parliamentary elections to be held on Tuesday March 24th.

The shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused newsrooms has been a particularly draining challenge.

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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Den 60 meter höga skidbacken reser sig i synfältet från taxins vänstra ruta. En gammal och tung silhuett mitt i ett landskap av...

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.

The additional checks on citizenship applications announced this week will be targeted at refugees from 'high-risk' countries, with people who have come to Sweden to work unaffected, Sweden's Migratio...

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...

Stor öppenhjärtig intervju med Joakim Medins fru och Dagens ETC-journalisten Sofie Axelsson • ”Det är det första vi ska göra när han kommer hem”