I totally get all the views in the comments calling her out for applying too late. It doesn't really say when exactly she applied, just that they only realised late 2022 and got rejected end of 2024.

But I want to point out that the Swedish imigration office or whatever you'd call it in English (Migrationsverket) is one of the laziest and scummiest governmental organisations I have ever seen. And I have nothing to do with them, I only know from non-European colleagues how terrible they are themselves at keeping time. I had a colleague who made their application for extension of residency well ahead of time, only for Migrationsverket to take so damn long my colleague was forced to leave the country as no decision for them to get residency had been made yet. This is about someone with a steady job already living there 5+ years. A few weeks after they left they got the ok to return.

So, fuck Migrationsverket. While this woman probably fucked it too, I'd not be surprised if it wasn't all her fault actually.

While rough, why didn't she apply for residence before? It was pretty clear during Bre it that this would be a consequence.

It just baffles my mind. In Spain there's also tons of british pensioners that had the attitude of "doesn't apply to me" who were flummoxed that they now couldn't stay, when they had every opportunity to apply for residence. It was even made easy for them, but they kept arrogantly insisting that it didn't apply to them.

I can understand Sweden on this, "I didn't know" doesn't sound like a "reasonable reason" to apply late. She messed up by not being minimally aware of stuff she needed to as an immigrant. "My husband takes care of that" is not an excuse.

I wasnt allowed to vote for Brexit. I had been strucken from the electoral role. I had left England at teh start of 2003. As soon as the Brexit vote went through I put in my application för citizenship in Sweden. At the time no one knew what was gonna happen but I figured my permanent residency permit wasnt gonna cut it anymore cause it relied on me being an EU citizen.

At the time the migration crisis was happening in Sweden. So many asylum seekers from Syria and Afghanistan so my application was low priority. It took 2 and half years from application date to getting my citizenship but now I am Swedish.

Always wondered how England would be able to fuck up my life despite me leaving the country and Brexit was a big fuck up to my life. Now a new law has come along and I am not allowed to enter England on my Swedish passport. I got citizenship in Sweden while England was still in the EU so I got dual citizenship. I have to enter England with my British passport. A British passport costs 2600kr and requires dna. A Swedish passport costs 500kr and can be picked up at a police station.

Britain is a weird place that still effects my life despite leaving 23 years ago. I have looked at renouncing citizenship but that is also an expensive affair that involves handing over my dna to the British government. I have just made the choice to not go back. I dont agree with handing over my dna to go see my country of birth.

This lady? It wasnt hard to see the writing on the wall when Brexit happened. And now the climate in Sweden has changed. I dont know if I could get citizenship with this government. I certainly couldnt pass the citizenship test. Then again I dont know a single Swedish person who could pass it either. Let alone the minimum income required for citizenship.

Its a weird time through out the West right now.

I have a crippling phobia of speaking on the phone, my husband handles all of the paperwork as a result. If he died today I wouldn't know where to begin. This could have been this case with this lady, maybe she simply didn't know until it was too late. I feel like bullying pensioners is not the best way to make immigration arguments though.

Yeah it really sucks. She should have gone for the permanent residence any point in the last 18 years but it wasn't necessary until Brexit happened.

Definitely not proper how Sweden handled it, they should have sent at least a couple of letters and emails notifying them of their right to stay not being permanent anymore. Parliament could have passed law saying "person that has been legally residing in Sweden using their freedom of movement for at least before Brexit gets automatically permanent residency" and this wouldn't have been a thing.

I feel bad for her in the same way that I feel bad for myself that my fellow citizens (USA) are terrible people. We have to suffer their horrible choices until we stand up to them and create a better society.

Could have applied for citizenship, no?

It's not that much of a surprise from the Swedish government. They collaborate and implement the politics of a party which considers you basically a foreign invader if you have two foreign born parents, a la the Replacement theory, and you are making the Swedish ethnicity impure. And yeah, I know replacement theory is commonly used to target non-whites and/or non-christians, but they produce replacement theory content where anyone with two foreign born parents are considered to replace Swedes (second generations are considered too, and they signal that they are worried about third generation impurities too). This is just Sweden now. Cruelty for anyone they consider impure.

Immigration law is stupid exhibit 3001: