In an interview with the Aftonbladet newspaper, Forssell said that negotiations between the government parties over the so-called "safety clause", which will be included in a new law on family reunion, were in their final stages.
After the issue of young adults being deported without their parents became a major national issue at the start of 2026, the government mounted a u-turn, promising to adapt a safety clause proposed by a government inquiry to allow more of the affected adults to stay in Sweden.
The Migration Agency then said it would put any decisions of affected young adults on hold until the law was in place.
Forssell told Aftonbladet that the draft law containing the safety clause would be published imminently.
"I want it to happen as quickly as possible, but above all, it has to be right," he said. "We are negotiating that now, and my primary focus is on the teenagers and young adults who are here today."
If possible, he said, he would also like the law to be changed to help teenagers and young adults who have already been refused a residency permit and told they will have to leave Sweden, but who have not yet actually left.
"I would like to find a solution for that group as well. If you do everything right, if you make an effort, study or work and have not committed any crimes, then I think you should have a fair chance of finding a long-term future in Sweden," he said. "But it is of course complicated when it comes to legally binding decisions."
He said it was possible that some young adults may have a decision come into force today or over the next few weeks, who it might be hard to help.
"It is very difficult to know how many there are, we do not have such exact figures. I do not think there are that many, but for those individuals it is of course a very big decision."
According to Aftonbladet's sources, the possibility of a solution for young people already refused residency has been a sticking point in the negotiations between the government and the Sweden Democrats.
In the interview, Forssell claimed that the government had instructed the inquiry on family reunion to also develop a new safety clause that might help teen deportees, but Ingrid Utne, the judge who ran the inquiry, denied this, saying that the inquiry itself had seen the need for a new clause.
Forssell told Aftonbladet that the inquiry's proposal that people be allowed to stay in "atypical and distressing circumstances" was still "rather narrow", and said that the government parties had had to start from scratch to develop a more generous legal framing.
Forssell said previously that the law would be ready by the end of May.
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