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Swedish Migration Agency works to cut backlog as waiting time passes 1,000 days
10+ hour, 2+ min 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…...
Swedish Migration Agency struggles to cut backlog as waiting time passes 1,000 days
10+ hour, 2+ min 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…...
'Not reliable': We asked ChatGPT tricky questions on Swedish migration rules
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (473+ words) ChatGPT 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 Hosseini…...
Number of people granted Swedish citizenship drops 40 percent
2+ mon, 1+ 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…...
'Let's not kick people out of Sweden who are already contributing"
2+ mon, 2+ 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…...
Swedish universities slam government's timeline for citizenship tests
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (304+ words) Sweden is set to roll out language and civics tests for citizenship next summer. But the universities tasked with developing the tests say that timeline doesn't give them nearly enough time. Stockholm and Gothenburg University have been tasked by the…...
European anti-racism council raises concerns over Swedish government policy
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (476+ words) Parts of the Tid" Agreement, the policy document agreed between the three government parties and the far-right Sweden Democrats, have led the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) to raise concerns over integration and discrimination in Sweden. ECRI regularly…...
Do dual British-Swedish nationals need an ETA to travel to the UK?
1+ year, 2+ week ago (490+ words) The UK is expanding its new electronic visa waiver, known as ETA, to all EU and EEA citizens starting in April, but what's the deal for dual nationals? The website opened this week for EU and EEA ... The UK is…...