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Ahmad, 23, has a cerebral palsy injury, epilepsy, cannot speak or eat alone, and needs 24-hour care.
But after an expulsion decision from the Swedish Migration Agency, he is now homeless and without money for food and medicine.
– I can’t understand why they do this, says Anna Berggren, good man for Ahmad.
Ahmad Alrashki, 23, is currently hospitalized at Sundsvall Hospital. Not because you need urgent hospital care. But because the Swedish Migration Agency withdrew his LMA card and forced him to move out of his residence five days in advance, which Sundsvall’s newspaper was the first to report.
– The accommodation staff decided to take Ahmad to the emergency room. He was the most humane because he needs 24-hour care and supervision, says Anna Berggren, who has been a good husband to Ahmad for two years.
“I saw your concerns”
Ahmad has several diagnoses: a cerebral palsy injury, epilepsy and is in a wheelchair. He cannot eat or go to the bathroom without help, and cannot manage on his own.
He can’t speak and put his feelings into words, but Anna saw how he felt when they took him out of his house and left him in the hospital.
– I saw him when he was sitting with his little fluffy monkey in his arms in the wheelchair outside the hospital. And I saw his anxiety in his eyes. It didn’t feel good at all, he says.
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Ahmad Alrashki, 23 years old.
The family was deported last year.
Ahmad came to Sweden from Iraq in the fall of 2015 and applied for asylum with his family. However, since 2018 he has been living in a residence, due to the fact that he needs extensive care and attention 24 hours a day.
He and his family had their asylum applications rejected and last fall, after the case was appealed to the highest court, it became clear that they would be deported.
They were taken to the return unit of the Swedish Migration Agency in Uppsala, but after a few weeks Anna received a call from the authority saying that it had been decided to send Ahmad back to Sundsvall because he had not received the care he needed and his health had deteriorated.
Come back voluntarily
The deportation decision against Ahmad still stood and, through her good husband Anna, she agreed to return to Iraq voluntarily in June.
After that, they didn’t hear from the Swedish Immigration Board until the end of August. Then, a few days in advance, they announced that Ahmad would get rid of his LMA card and was forced to move out of his residence and that money for food and medicine was withdrawn.
It does not matter that you agree to be deported.
– As the regulation is designed, it is the case that Ahmad loses the right to housing and assistance, even though he contributes to the return. It is therefore important that we now work together so that Ahmad achieves the best possible performance, says Guna Graufelds of the Swedish Migration Board to the Sundsvall newspaper.
Has ended up in government limbo
But according to the Sundsvall municipality, Ahmad must have a residence permit to qualify for help from social services, Sundsvalls Tidning is told.
– He stays in the hospital for the weekend and gets his medication there. After the weekend, I don’t know what will happen. She’s finished between the chairs, says Anna Berggren.
Håkan Norberg, deputy director of operations in Sundsvall municipality, tells P4 Västernorrland that they are maintaining a close dialogue with the Swedish Immigration Board and that their situation could be resolved soon.
Anna Berggren does not know when Ahmad’s expulsion will take place.
– The Swedish Migration Agency has not contacted me with any plan for this.
What do you think his life in Iraq would be like if he was deported?
– I worry about how he will do it and if he will manage. But I really haven’t thought about it that much because it feels so unreasonable for it to happen.
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