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With the number of votes 30-23, the Riksdag decided to urge the government to refrain from facilitating the obtaining of a permanent residence permit for unaccompanied minors who have studied in upper secondary school.
The call refers to a regulation that would have entered into force on December 3.
The government itself makes decisions on the ordinances, but has nonetheless waited for the ordinance to come into force pending the Riksdag’s decision.
Following the Riksdag’s decision Migration Minister Morgan Johansson (S) announced that the government is moving away from regulation.
-This means that the government cannot go ahead with what we had planned, he says.
– And I’m sorry.
Johansson believes that there are arguments to ease the maintenance requirement, as the job market has deteriorated due to the pandemic.
The ordinance would have meant that unaccompanied minors who have been granted temporary residence permits to enter upper secondary school can obtain permanent residence permits if they obtain employment for at least one year. Now the requirement is two years.
Behind the Riksdag’s decision by urging the government to backtrack to positions, M, KD, L and SD. C abstained.
Johansson criticizes the parties for violating the practice in the sense that the Riksdag interferes with the government’s opportunities to decide on the ordinances.
– Therefore, a new practice has been established for what the Riksdag can do in the future and, of course, it can be used in the future by parliamentary majorities against other governments. he says.
But the spokesperson for immigration policy for the moderates, Maria Malmer Stenergard, does not see those problems.
– This shows that democracy works, he says.
The new temporary upper secondary education law came into force in 2018 and gave some 7,600 unaccompanied young people, whose asylum applications were rejected, a new opportunity to obtain a residence permit so that they could complete their upper secondary studies.
In order to obtain a permanent residence permit after completing studies, certain requirements are imposed on work and support. To date, 72 people have obtained permanent residence permits due to self-sufficiency.
Extended temporary permits have been granted to 5,926 people for further studies.
706 people have had their extension request rejected.
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