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New family rules could add years before Sweden starts deciding

A proposed two-year eligibility wait would come before processing that already takes many family cases well over a year.

The Swedish Migration Agency office in Solna, seen from outside.

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A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Sweden promises equal policing while drug stops produce ethnic disparities

Power & Consequence

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

How to make your foreign degree count in a Swedish application

Decision to Doorstep

A marked pedestrian crossing over railway tracks at Apelviken in Varberg, with barriers, warning lights and a sign telling people to watch for trains.

Track trespass caused 4,055 hours of Swedish train delays

News

News & Politics

Simona Mohamsson speaks through a headset microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2025.

News

Mohamsson wore a Star of David but refuses hijab solidarity for Muslims

Yellow wooden villas on Norra Hamngatan in Lysekil, Sweden.

News

Swedish house prices rose 2% in the second quarter

Election workers sort ballot papers in an Election Authority photograph for Sweden's 2026 elections.

News

Sweden prepares election system for cyberattacks and sabotage

Jimmie Åkesson, left, and Simona Mohamsson, right, in a DailySweden split-panel composite of photographs made separately in 2024 and 2025, separated by a jagged red line across a dark gap

News

Åkesson refuses to rescue Liberals: ‘Not our responsibility’

Belonging

A Migrationsverket sign outside an agency building.

Belonging

Swedish citizenship grants fell 94% in July as 103,598 cases remained open

Baristas prepare coffee during a café shift. The photograph is illustrative; the workers are not identified as students, Swedish residents or residence-permit holders.

Belonging

Sweden’s new work cap threatens student residence permits

A Polish border guard checks passengers' travel documents aboard a coach at the Berastavitsa-Bobrowniki crossing in August 2018.

Belonging

Sweden’s revised guidance says Belarusians should not return for passports

Ballot papers laid out for Sweden's 2014 general election.

Belonging

Sweden’s foreign-born voters trail Swedish-born voters by 22 points

Making It

Adult SFI learners work at desktop computers during a workshop in Värnamo in October 2013.

Making It

Approved SFI breaks cut the time left to finish

A care worker in blue scrubs pushes a person in a wheelchair through a clinical corridor.

Making It

Foreign-born workers made up about two-thirds of new elderly-care hires

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

Making It

Most recognised foreign graduates still lacked matched work eight years later

Two Indian participants collaborate on a laptop during the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon in Hyderabad in 2026.

Making It

India-born residents help power Sweden’s tech sector and add over SEK 6 billion to public finances

Decision to doorstep

Life Here

The Swedish Migration Agency office in Solna, seen from outside.

Life Here

New family rules could add years before Sweden starts deciding

A partial solar eclipse visible through clouds over Tuntorp in western Sweden.

Life Here

Sweden gets a partial eclipse Wednesday, but viewers need eye protection

A social worker with a red folder speaks with two adults across a table, with papers in front of them.

Life Here

How to handle a Swedish decision you cannot understand

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Life Here

The one step to take when the Migration Agency keeps you waiting

Sweden Explained

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Sweden Explained

Sweden debates migration and crime with evidence too weak for certainty

Pupils work at tables while a teacher helps a group in a classroom at Enskede school in Stockholm.

Sweden Explained

School support for newcomers also lifted Swedish-born pupils

A newly installed digital household electricity meter with a zero reading, photographed in Berlin in January 2025.

Sweden Explained

Sweden’s inflation fell to 0.2% as energy prices dropped

A person uses a card reader beside a laptop for an online financial transaction.

Sweden Explained

When a fully automated decision changes your future, GDPR gives you a right to understand and challenge it

Power & Consequence

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Power & Consequence

Sweden promises equal policing while drug stops produce ethnic disparities

A Swedish police car and police cordon outside Hälsingegatan 28 in Stockholm.

Power & Consequence

Foreign-background Swedes are more overrepresented among homicide victims than offenders

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Power & Consequence

Citizenship revocation would divide Swedes by the passports they hold

Several official-looking envelopes on a wooden table, with a Kronofogden envelope prominent in the foreground.

Power & Consequence

Swedish agencies wait for complaints before checking ethnic bias

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Adult SFI learners work at desktop computers during a workshop in Värnamo in October 2013.

Household Ledger

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Household Ledger

How a Swedish job offer can help pay for your move

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Household Ledger

How lower-paid Swedish jobs can still support a work permit

Inside a Stockholm metro carriage with grey seats, yellow handrails and a display showing Thorildsplan.

Household Ledger

Stockholm's half-price travelcard can erase your tax deduction

An electronic market board displays changing share prices and percentage movements.

Household Ledger

ISK explained: Sweden's investment savings account for shares and funds

Opportunity Map

An SJ X40 regional double-decker train stands at Sundbyberg station in March 2006.

Opportunity Map

How to cut the cost of a distant Swedish job interview

The green Arbetsförmedlingen symbol and bilingual agency name on a glass-fronted building in daylight.

Opportunity Map

How a jobs-centre subsidy can strengthen your application

A professional truck driver seated inside the cab of a lorry.

Opportunity Map

The three checks before applying for Swedish truck job

Two electricians install a new main electrical distribution board at a property in central Ystad.

Opportunity Map

The filter that opens more than 200 engineering jobs across Sweden

Decision to Doorstep

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

Decision to Doorstep

How to make your foreign degree count in a Swedish application

A large crowd of students at a university graduation ceremony in Ottawa.

Decision to Doorstep

How foreign graduates can keep job hunting in Sweden

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Decision to Doorstep

How to Move to Sweden Without a Job Offer

A close-up of a baggage tag marked Stockholm Arlanda and ARN.

Decision to Doorstep

How Sweden counts travel against citizenship residence

Opinion

An archival portrait of Swedish Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

DailySweden view

Sweden’s ministers keep full pay while sick as the government defends the sick-day penalty

A large crowd gathers beneath a Tax the Rich banner inside the Wisconsin State Capitol in February 2011.

DailySweden view

Why wealthy interests work so hard to make everyone hate taxes

A crowd gathers at an anti-racism demonstration in Stockholm in August 2015.

DailySweden view

Exclusion builds the parallel societies Sweden claims to fear

Green, red and yellow voting buttons marked yes, no and abstain in the Swedish Parliament chamber.

DailySweden view

A society that jails exploited children has failed them twice

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