‘I did nothing wrong’: Sweden’s migration regime hardens, upending lives
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Earlier this month, Raquel Viveira’s partner handed her an envelope he had just retrieved from their postbox in Malmo. Her removal was said to be because she had changed track between two cohabiting partner visas, as a previous relationship had ended. If family reunification laws tighten further, she could face removal again even after returning. In the decade since, the number of people applying for asylum each year has plunged from 163,000 to roughly 9,000. This summer, three policy shifts converge. On June 12, as the EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact came into force, Sweden chose the strictest implementation options available to any member state. Together, legal experts say, these new laws do not merely tighten Swedish migration policy. Mehtarabbasi came to Sweden on a visitor visa in 2000 to support her sister after their father’s death. The sons obtained residency through a 2009 law allowing undocumented migrants with employment records to reapply. Losing a job, going on parental leave or falling behind on a debt could now trigger revocation.
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Once a European nation receiving large numbers of refugees and migrants, Sweden completes a decade-long overhaul.
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