The Swedish Migration Agency is hoping to clear its backlog of four-year-old citizenship cases by the end of this year after bringing in a new system where cases are handled strictly in order of application date, section head Sara Sjudin has told The Local.
The number of people applying for asylum in Sweden in the first six months of this year has dropped 30 percent compared to the same period last year, according to new statistics from the Migration Agency.
The Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) has begun contacting citizenship applicants to book in-person identity checks, effectively ending a near two-month freeze on approvals for standard naturalisation cases.
The Swedish Migration Agency has called for the government to provide it with additional funding, arguing that the current budget will not allow it to both cut waiting times and carry out the desired reforms.
A survey of The Local's readers found last month that many believed their cases had been negatively affected after they were given the wrong information by the Migration Agency. The agency told us how it checks the information it gives out is correct.
The Migration Agency is currently taking much longer than its target to process work applications for foreigners employed by so-called "certified operators". What's going on and when will the situation return to normal?
On November 11th, Sweden's parliament voted in favour of a key post-Brexit rights bill which would see British citizens and their families granted a new residence status. The Local looks over what's included.
An Iranian sales engineer who was forced to leave Sweden over a former employer's error, has not been successful in his attempt to sue the Swedish state for damages.
The waiting time for a Swedish citizenship surpassed three years for the first time ever in February, and has now risen to 37 months. We asked The Local readers about their experiences of the queue, the problems they've faced as a result, and the questions they still have about the process.
As waiting times for Swedish citizenship applications climbed to a record high of over three years, The Local heard from one international resident about the impact of such long waits, and took your questions to the Migration Agency.
Sweden's Migration Agency has been sharply rebuked after it rejected a man's residence permit application, but failed to inform him that he was to be deported from Sweden until almost 20 months later.
The Swedish Migration Agency will no longer issue residence permits to all refugees coming from Syria, ending a generous policy which over the last six years has seen over 100,000 Syrians granted asylum in the country.
An Iranian journalist is asking to stay in Sweden after fleeing Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's tour of the country, Swedish officials have confirmed.
New rules introduced by Sweden's Migration Agency mean that international doctoral students have a significantly limited time in which to apply for permanent residence permits.
Iranian sales engineer Ali Omumi, who was forced to leave Sweden over a former employer's error and then blocked from returning, has won his appeal in court.
A five-month-old baby born in Sweden has been ordered to leave the country with his brother and father, even though the boys' mother has been granted Swedish residency.
UPDATED: Callers to the Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) on Monday morning received a rude and vulgar message after the organization's switchboard was hacked.
Thousands of people commute between Denmark and Sweden every day, living in one country and working in the other, and it's a lifestyle the Öresund region is actively trying to promote. But for non-EU workers, the migration law makes things difficult.
A Stockholm-based drone entrepreneur has been ordered to leave Sweden within a month after the Migration Agency confirmed its decision to deny him a work visa extension because he went several months without a salary.
A Yemeni journalist and activist seeking asylum in Sweden has been asked to move to the Czech Republic to have her case heard there, despite having family resident in Sweden.
The case of Iranian sales engineer Ali Omumi is to be taken to the Swedish Parliament, two days after The Local reported that he faces deportation for a former employer's error.
A Syrian refugee who was deported to Greece under the Dublin Convention has been granted a work permit and is back at work as a computer programmer in Sweden.
An American student has been refused the right to stay in Sweden because she briefly transferred some of the money she had saved over to her parents' account in the US for safe-keeping.
