“It only took five minutes,” the reader said. “Two people looked at my passport together.”
She is a woman from a non-EU country who wished to remain anonymous. Her appointment took place in mid-June.
The people at the Migration Agency did not ask her any questions, but she asked them when she could expect a decision to be made in her case.
“They said no idea.”
The reader spoke to the officials in Swedish, but The Local has heard of some applicants carrying out their in-person ID checks in English.
“I was an hour early and it was fine,” she said. “They just asked if I’d applied for citizenship then looked at my passport.”
When we spoke to the reader around three weeks after her interview, she was still waiting for a response.
“I’m still waiting,” she said. “Spoke to the case officer last week who had said she has done her work and now it’s up to the decision-making officer. They can’t say how long it might be.”
“Every day I check the Migration Agency website thinking it might be my lucky day, but still nothing.”
The Local understands that the in-person ID appointment comes at the end of the processing of citizenship cases, and we've heard from many readers that they got their decision shortly after. However, some readers have also told us they had to wait several weeks.
The Migration Agency announced earlier this year that it would be changing the way it processes applications, focusing more on older cases – some applicants have been waiting as long as four or five years.
The reader The Local spoke to had a significantly shorter wait, having applied for citizenship almost a year ago.
She submitted a request to conclude after six months, which was rejected, then overturned on appeal, and received a letter inviting her to book a personal ID check at the beginning of June.
“I saw two people wrote on Facebook that their applications had been granted. One of them applied before me and one applied after me. The one who applied after me even went to their interview ten days after me,” she said.
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