https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed UPDATED: Asylum seekers arriving in Sweden are now likely to face a wait of up to six-months before they can have their cases heard, as migration officers struggle to cope with the workload. https://www.thelocal.se/20150522/asylum-seekers-left-in-six-month-limbo-in-sweden Fri, 22 May 2015 09:00:00 +0200 asylum-seekers-left-in-six-month-limbo-in-sweden A court in Malmö has jailed a former Migration Board worker and his accomplice for taking bribes in exchange for residence permits and passports for asylum seekers desperate to stay in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20150520/two-found-guilty-in-migration-board-bribery-case Wed, 20 May 2015 14:32:46 +0200 two-found-guilty-in-migration-board-bribery-case The three-year-old who was abandoned in Sweden and later faced a deportation battle was reunited with her birth parents at her foster home. https://www.thelocal.se/20131229/toddler-haddile-meets-birth-parents-in-sweden Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:19:00 +0100 toddler-haddile-meets-birth-parents-in-sweden Long processing times have led to an investigation into the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket), which has struggled to keep up with an increase in the number of asylum seekers. https://www.thelocal.se/20131021/50906 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:58:00 +0200 50906 Several nail salons in Sweden have been found selling illegal work permits to Vietnamese jobseekers for as much as 140,000 kronor ($22,000) according to a new investigation. https://www.thelocal.se/20131020/50896 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:00:00 +0200 50896 A group of axe-wielding men staged a brazen attack a Migration Board (Migrationsverket) housing facility in Gävle in eastern Sweden at the weekend, freeing three people before fleeing the scene. https://www.thelocal.se/20130826/49840 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:25:00 +0200 49840 New arrivals to Sweden increasingly have to stay in Migration Board (Migrationsverket) residential facilities as the country's municipalities say they cannot offer enough housing, despite financial compensation from the state. https://www.thelocal.se/20130730/49344 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:02:00 +0200 49344 Since 2008, migrants to Sweden can swap course from seeking asylum to seeking a work visa with the help of a Swedish employer. The Local speaks to one migrant who praises the system, while saying it could be improved. https://www.thelocal.se/20130613/48466 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:03:00 +0200 48466 The Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) wants to improve how it communicates the labour migration possibilities to Sweden for would-be migrants, hoping in part to make sure future employees in Sweden know their options and rights. https://www.thelocal.se/20130613/48464 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:01:00 +0200 48464 A Migration Board employee in Malmö is suspected of making sure his mother was allowed to stay in Sweden, in contradiction to migration laws and adding to a scandal that has rocked the agency with several employees under investigation. https://www.thelocal.se/20130527/48156 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:14:00 +0200 48156 A top prosecutor believes more Migration Board (Migrationsverket) employees will likely be implicated in an ongoing bribery probe launched after two employees were arrested on suspicions of selling residence permits. https://www.thelocal.se/20130325/46914 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:26:00 +0100 46914 Somalis seeking a residence permit in Sweden will face tighter restrictions in the near future, after the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) judged that the country was no longer at war. https://www.thelocal.se/20121113/44398 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:18:00 +0100 44398 The head of Migration Board (Migrationsverket) operations in southern Sweden has slammed case workers for routinely hinting that refugee children are making false claims about their mental health in order to avoid deportation. https://www.thelocal.se/20121112/44376 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:30:00 +0100 44376 Sweden's Migration Board (Migrationsverket) has been slammed for "serious deficiencies" in how it assigns public defenders to asylum seekers, thousands of whom are forced to fight deportation battles with representatives who lack law degrees. https://www.thelocal.se/20121101/44182 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:28:00 +0100 44182 Two Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) offices in opposite parts of the country were damaged late Wednesday night in what police believe were organized attacks. https://www.thelocal.se/20121101/44170 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:50:00 +0100 44170 Over 50,000 asylum seekers are expected to come to Sweden next year, according to the latest prognosis from the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket), pushing the country’s capacity past its limits. https://www.thelocal.se/20121029/44112 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:54:00 +0100 44112 The Swedish Migration Court of Appeals on Monday decided to revoke the decision to deport 2-year-old Haddile, abandoned in Sweden shortly after birth by her Algerian mother. https://www.thelocal.se/20121022/43966 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:46:00 +0200 43966 A petition against the deportation of a two-year-old girl from Sweden to France has received 30,000 signatures. The case has led to renewed calls to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law. https://www.thelocal.se/20120923/43394 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:29:00 +0200 43394 A Migration Board (Migrationsverket) official from Malmö has been fired after it was discovered that she had for years failed to register important documents and instead hid them wrapped up in clothes and behind furniture in her office. https://www.thelocal.se/20120427/40508 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:28:00 +0200 40508 Police on Wednesday arrested two men in connection to a suspected gang rape of a 20-year-old man, carried out by three other men, in a home for asylum seekers in northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20120420/40388 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:58:00 +0200 40388