12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (328+ words) Many people will likely recognise the frustration of getting stuck in a long phone queue or a loop with a chatbot when trying to cancel a subscription or get help resolving an issue. But what if they could be fined?...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (416+ words) The Local Sweden - Do Not Process My Personal Information Uncertainty over immigration policy is causing many highly-qualified foreigners in Sweden to consider leaving the country, according to an extensive new survey. The survey was carried out by pollsters Infostat in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (169+ words) The European Committee of Social Rights has said it believes Sweden has been guilty of multiple violations of the European Social Charter in its healthcare dealings with vulnerable EU citizens. Amnesty International and Doctors of the World have raised 129 individual…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (511+ words) With a majority of just one vote, parliament rejected adding transitional rules to Sweden's June 6th citizenship reforms. But there's still reason to be hopeful, writes The Local's Richard Orange. To be honest it wasn't a surprise. Sweden's MPs voted along…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (750+ words) Three months after the Swedish Migration Agency aimed to clear its backlog of four-year-old cases, thousands of applicants from the period are still waiting to be assigned case officers. "sa Holmes, head of unit for citizenship in Gothenburg, explained the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (750+ words) Three months after the Swedish Migration Agency aimed to clear its backlog of four-year-old cases, thousands of applicants from the period are still waiting to be assigned case officers. "sa Holmes, head of unit for citizenship in Gothenburg, explained the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (473+ words) Chat GPT gave wrong or misleading answers on nearly a third of the Swedish migration queries submitted to it by The Local, according to three leading migration lawyers who assessed its responses. The lawyers, Youstbi Djuanvat at Edelweiss Legal, Adib…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (394+ words) The number of people awarded Swedish citizenship fell by more than 40 percent in 2025 after the Migration Agency brought in a new system of security checks, according to annual statistics. Statistics published on Friday showed that the number of people granted…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1643+ words) Niels Paarup-Petersen, the Centre Party's newly appointed migration spokesperson, has told The Local why he expects opposition to the government's tightening of migration laws to grow in the coming year as more and more immigrants people know personally start to…...