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migrationsverket
EXPLAINED: How can Brits apply for residency in Sweden post-Brexit?
Applications opened at 8am today.
Games producer told to leave Sweden over former employer’s error
Swedish inquiry told to propose new laws to stop ‘talent deportation’
Waiting times for Swedish citizenship rise to over three years for the first time
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Explained: What’s going on with Sweden’s record-long citizenship queues?
Talent deportation: Sweden sees sharp drop in rejected work permit extensions
Swedish Migration Agency to slash up to 146 jobs
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Sweden doubles some fees for extending your work permit
Deported engineer sues Sweden over work permit rejections
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How many people were granted work permits in Sweden in November?
Migration Agency rejects residence permit, then waits 20 months to tell applicant
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Here’s how many people were granted work permits in Sweden in October
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Foreign talents reveal: How we fought Sweden’s work permit bureaucracy
Scientist forced to leave Sweden over employer’s job ad error
Swedish migration courts appeal for cash boost as cases keep piling up
‘People need to know it’s still going on’: Australian told to leave Sweden over LinkedIn job ad
Sweden halts asylum decisions for applicants from northeastern Syria
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Here’s how many people were granted work permits in Sweden in September
Why an Iranian journalist fled an official delegation to stay in Sweden
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Here’s how many residence permits were granted in Sweden in July
Sweden sees drastic rise in waiting time for citizenship applications
58 workers forced to leave Sweden after police raid strawberry farms
Students: Tell us about your residence permit experience
Deported work permit holders may have to wait years before returning to Sweden
Family ordered to leave Sweden after six years over employer’s error
Deported engineer loses court case against Sweden over work permit rejection
Sweden fast-tracks citizenship applications from Brits as Brexit negotiations continue
Swedish Migration Agency to grant China’s Uighurs refugee status
‘I could be deported to Iran because Sweden doesn’t believe I’m gay’
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How the Swedish Migration Agency is preparing for a no-deal Brexit
Swedish Migration Agency employee asked asylum seeker for bribe ‘as a joke’
Migrationsverket overturns deportation decision for 6-year-old orphan
Sweden’s Migration Agency phones hacked with vulgar greeting
How many people became Swedish citizens last year?
How many people got a work permit in Sweden last year?
‘Hind Aleryani is not a number, and neither is anyone else’
Deported sales engineer told he can’t return to Sweden
New dad faces deportation from Sweden after 16 years due to holiday pay error
Migration Agency backtracks over deportation order for 6-year-old legal orphan
American forced to leave Sweden despite running successful brewery
What to do if your work permit renewal is rejected
‘Don’t be afraid of foreign workers. We are a key part of Sweden’s future’
‘I’m being deported because I didn’t take vacation, but Sweden is my home’
How Sweden’s deportations of skilled workers are affecting internationals
Defeat again for Sweden in attempt to deport worker over technicality
Swedish MP takes sales engineer’s work permit rejection to parliament
Sweden loses battle to deport mechanic who took no holiday
Sales engineer to be deported from Sweden despite landmark ruling
Sweden reports shorter waiting times for asylum decisions
Suicide rate higher among refugee youths in Sweden
American student told to leave Sweden over money error: ‘I feel very frustrated’
Sweden is deporting this entrepreneur for lowering his own salary
Number of asylum requests in Sweden hits eight-year low
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In depth: Why is Sweden deporting its foreign professionals?
Sweden’s Migration Agency to reduce staff numbers
Threats against Migration Agency staff on the rise
Massive show of support for refugee youths protesting Sweden’s Afghanistan deportations
How two rejected asylum seekers spent a month living at a Stockholm airport
Sweden cuts 2017 asylum seeker forecast again, but fewer cases will be processed
‘The nightmare is over’: wife’s joy after Swedish court overturns husband’s deportation order
‘I’m pregnant but my husband is being deported from Sweden’
2017 on track for new record of Brits seeking Swedish citizenship
Star developer appeals Sweden’s deportation verdict
Star developer loses fight against deportation from Sweden
Sweden’s asylum seeker forecast on track for 2017
Sweden asks psychology experts to help improve asylum assessments
Here’s where Sweden’s new citizens came from in 2016
Foreign workers to form human chain to stop deportations
Concerns for desperate refugee kids ‘planning suicide online’
Complaints over Swedish Migration Agency surge due to permit gripes
‘I’m not a quitter, but what have I done to deserve this?’
Deporting security risks ‘difficult’: Swedish Migration Agency
More than 1,000 Brits apply for Swedish passports after Brexit
Sweden takes another look at work permit rules
This is how long you have to wait for Swedish work permits
Asylum requests in Sweden down by 70 percent
Sweden’s migration boss Danielsson steps down
Hundreds more to protest tougher Swedish asylum laws
Sweden’s tough new residency laws begin
Sweden votes in favour of tough new residency laws
This week: Sweden votes on tough new residency rules
Sweden slashes refugee forecast figures for 2016
Syrian comic: We don’t prefer Sweden any more
Increase in violence in Swedish asylum centres
Refugees in Sweden to get free bus passes
Refugees to Sweden face long wait for ID checks
Attack on migration minister at refugee home
‘It was a long journey and some of my friends died’
‘Relocate Syrian refugees within Europe’ says UN
Why can’t refugees travel to Sweden legally?
Sweden cuts predicted asylum seeker figures
Lone child migrants to Sweden double in 2014
‘North Korean boy’ in Sweden risks torture
Asylum backlog prompts seven day work week
Swedish town demands cut in refugee numbers
Harvard athlete told he can’t help Swedish kids
Man sets himself on fire inside migration office
Teen held after boy’s death at asylum house
Swedish-only letters leave refugees frustrated
Refugee-shy towns hit out at new asylum bill
Family reunification boom fails to materialize
War weary Syrians find new home in Sweden
Swedes urge Syrians not to rush to embassies
Confused Syrians queue at Swedish embassies
Sweden offers residency to all Syrian refugees
Three freed in migrant axe attack drama
Migration Board boss: I’m not quitting
Woman falls from roof in protest over Bangladeshi
Bribery allegations rock Migration Board
Iraqis leave Sweden
Migration Board seeks consultant help
Migration Board: ‘Hamas is a liberation movement’
Migration Board to blacklist ineffectual asylum lawyers
Migration Board sets new principle in Congo ruling
Sweden to prioritize deportations in 2009
Teen flees ahead of scheduled deportation to Croatia
Six men flee Migration Board detention centres
Migration Board worker charged with bribery
Decision to work in Sweden proves costly for aspiring resident
Flow of asylum seekers to Sweden expected to drop: agency
Suspected infiltration at detention centre
Sweden offers asylum to Iraqi who aided US military
Migration Board slams refugee housing plan
Fury over ailing man’s botched deportation
Migration Board worker found guilty of bribery
Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer
Migration Board bans ‘racist’ lawyer
European court halts childrens’ deportation
Fewer seeking asylum in Sweden
Anger as deportees held in solitary confinement
‘Who am I?’ – Mystery foreigner pleads for help
Man forced to re-apply for asylum after boarding wrong train
Sweden to pay more asylum seekers to leave
Vellinge changes course to welcome refugee kids
Residence permits for sale on black market
Sweden shifts priorities for resettling UN refugees
Sweden plans Afghanistan orphanages
Migration board launches online citizenship form
Sweden increases refugee forecast again
Man held after Migration Board hostage drama
Man ages 12 years after Swedish court decision
Migrationsverket cuts asylum seeker estimates
Suffering along the path to suffrage in Sweden
Refugee boom leads to campground shelters
Swedish towns strained by asylum seeker spike
Housing still scarce for refugee children
Sweden opens online student visa service
Swedish minister ‘tired’ of refugees from Greece
Labour migration law ‘costs Sweden IT jobs’
Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital
Sweden enlists cartoon bear to help asylum seeking children
Sweden to stop asylum expulsions to Greece
Sweden deported man to the wrong country
Sweden slammed for new Iraqi deportations
Police chief fed up over ‘jailed’ asylum seekers
Protesters arrested after Iraq expulsion demo
New action against deportations to Iraq
Sweden deported family to wrong country
Migration Board ‘violates human rights’: report
New asylum policies pave way for boost in forced deportations
Swedish citizenship applications on the rise
Manpower shortage leads to work permit delays
Sweden offers ‘haven’ for persecuted writers
Family outrage over 90-year-old’s deportation
Migration Board offers fast track jobs migration
Two weeks reprieve for 90-year-old deportee
What does it mean to be a dual citizen?
Time runs out for 90-year-old deportee
Last minute reprieve for 90-year-old deportee
Russian migrant freed by armed men
Sweden to let would-be residents apply online
Police swamped by ‘impossible’ deportations
Jobs agency slammed over ‘cheap’ interpreters
‘Your baby looks like Saddam Hussein’
Reforms complicate refugee housing crunch
Man disciplined for comparing baby to Saddam Hussein
Sweden stops deportations to Syria
Fire ravages refugee housing facility
Sweden braces for family immigration boom
Pastor ‘tortured’ in Congo after Sweden deportation
Children ‘unprotected’ after court ruling: agency
‘Force’ municipalities to receive refugee children: minister
Sweden braces for asylum application spike
Sweden asylum seeker figures jump 30 percent
Fewer granted asylum on re-application: report
Syrian refugees can’t bring family to Sweden
Gaming industry decries work permit wait times
Boy who sewed mouth shut to be deported
Boy who sewed lips shut to stay in Sweden
New plan to ease refugee housing problems
Two-year-old girl faces deportation from Sweden
Migration Board delays toddler’s deportation
Mother of abandoned toddler ‘wants her back’
Syrians largest asylum seeker group in Sweden
‘Difficult’ asylum seekers put in Swedish prison
Three men held after attack on refugee centre
Asylum seekers’ legal reps often underqualified
‘No civil war in Somalia’: Migration Board
Police raid Russian gang at refugee camp
Algerian couple shown to be Haddile’s parents
Refugees made to face winter freeze in flip-flops
Union fury at McDonald’s ‘job selling’ scheme
Family fights to keep aging mum in Sweden
Family wins residency fight for senile mum
Two arrested for selling residence permits
Ugandan couple’s family suffers over gay wedding
Sweden halts deportations to Eritrea
Doubts over asylum seekers’ age claims
Alliance rift over family reunification policy
FOR MEMBERS
How to get a faster decision on your Swedish citizenship or permit application