A Migration Agency official has warned that Sweden is changing 'the rules of the game for a lot of people during an ongoing process' by fast-tracking the abolition of so-called 'track changes' through parliament despite the objection of experts.
More and more foreigners are leaving Sweden for Germany, with higher salaries, more flexible permits and a stronger currency mentioned as possible reasons.
Statistics show that more and more foreigners are leaving Sweden for Germany. Tayyab Shabab, a programmer who was squeezed out by bureaucratic Swedish migration rules, knows what that's like.
Several changes to migration rules have come into effect since the start of 2025, and further changes are being debated. Here are the ones likely to have the biggest impact on the lives of Germany's foreign residents.
It should be easier for foreign researchers and doctoral students to travel in and out of Sweden while they’re in-between residence permits, a new government inquiry argues as part of a drive to attract and retain key talent.
Juliana Mattson, from the US, travelled to Norway to learn more about organic and sustainable farming but was deported and banned from entering the Schengen Area for two years just ten days into her trip.
Sweden's Migration Agency has lowered its forecast for the number of first-time work permit applications after a 'downward trend' due in part to the 'underestimated' effects of the work permit salary threshold and the economic situation.
Several students have reached out to The Local to complain about long waits for a residence permit to stay in Sweden and look for work after finishing their studies.
Sweden's Migration Agency has published a list of the main nationalities of the work permit holders who may be affected by Northvolt’s recently-announced layoffs.
The Swedish government is monitoring the Northvolt layoffs, but is not looking at extending the period a work permit holder may be unemployed, a spokesperson told The Local. But an EU directive could change things in the long-term future.
Sweden's government plans to work hard with the local authorities to keep the foreign high-skilled workers laid off at Northvolt from leaving Sweden, the country's employment minister has said.
Losing your job is tough for anyone. But for work permit holders, their entire future in Sweden is at stake, as well as Sweden’s ability to retain the foreign talent it needs, writes The Local Sweden's editor Emma Löfgren.
The engineering services company Siri AB has been recruiting high-skilled Indian workers to Sweden from its office in Gothenburg for years. They told The Local that talk of an Indian 'exodus' from Sweden is exaggerated.
Two researchers who were denied long-term residency status in Sweden argue they're being unjustly punished for the Migration Agency's history of long processing times.
Despite Sweden’s goal to attract international talent, approved work permits for highly qualified workers plummeted in the first five months of the year.
Sweden's Migration Agency has rejected a call for it to be responsible for drawing up a list of in-demand skills and professions exempted from the coming median-salary requirement for a work permit.
Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has brushed off criticism from business leaders that a raised work permit salary threshold would make it harder to find staff.
The number of Swedish work permits rejected because the applicant’s salary is too low has increased by almost 2,000 percent since the country tightened the rules last year.
The creation of a common EU Talent Pool platform, in which non-EU nationals can register their profiles and find jobs across the 27 member states, has moved a step closer to reality.
Germany is in dire need of skilled workers. A new form of work permit launching soon will provide another route for qualified foreign nationals to come to Germany.
Gouri Natrajan and her husband will be eligible for Swedish citizenship next year. They would apply, if it weren't for the fact that they fear Indian law would then render their five-month-old son stateless. And they're not alone.
