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Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) believes that the new government proposal for related immigration means “drastic” changes for Swedish immigration policy. Stock Photography.
Moderates are critical of the government’s new proposal to increase opportunities for related immigration.
– This would mean major changes for Swedish immigration policy, says Maria Malmer Stenergard, immigration policy spokesperson for the moderates.
The government announced Friday afternoon that it wants to increase the possibility of connected immigration for LGBTQ refugees. The announcement will complement the proposal for Sweden’s future immigration policy that was sent out earlier this fall.
In this proposal, the right to relative immigration is limited to the family nucleus, but the new complementary proposal will thus make an exception in cases in which a couple has not been able to live together because their relationship is not accepted in the culture in which the family lived. couple.
– If you are, for example, gay and you come from a country where it is simply forbidden, then you cannot live together or get married. We open the opportunity to meet in Sweden in such cases, said Migration Minister Morgan Johansson (S) on Friday.
“Going in the opposite direction”
Moderate immigration policy spokesperson Maria Malmer Stenergard is highly critical of the original proposal and the new supplement.
– This proposal goes against what the Social Democrats went to the polls and is deeply irresponsible. They are going in the opposite direction and want to return Sweden to the migration crisis of 2015, when we had a hard time accepting everyone who came here, he says.
Two other additions that the government has mentioned above are, in part, that children without asylum grounds can be granted a residence permit if the circumstances are particularly painful, and in part because an adult who has lived here with a residence permit and during that time you have a special connection with Sweden you can obtain a continuous residence permit. even if the need for protection has ceased, for example because there has been peace in the homeland.
“Big changes”
According to Morgan Johansson, the effect of the supplements will be small in terms of the number of relative immigrants.
“They have very marginal effects,” he said Friday.
But Maria Malmer Stenergard disagrees.
– This proposal means that you want to dramatically increase immigration. This would mean major changes for Swedish immigration policy, he says.
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