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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 according to the new complementary proposal, therefore, exceptions must be made in cases where a couple has not been able to live together because their relationship is not accepted. in the culture in which the couple lived.
– 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.
Moderate immigration policy Spokesperson Maria Malmer Stenergard is very 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.
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.
Morgan Johansson said in a written comment to TT on Saturday that even moderates should support the government’s proposal.
“The possibility of bringing together LGBTQ people who have not been able to live together in their countries of origin due to their sexual orientation was discussed by the Committee on Migration Policy. The government bill now makes this possible, and moderates should also think that it is reasonable, “Johansson writes, continuing:
“By the way, Sweden now has the lowest number of asylum seekers in 20 years. We pulled Sweden out of the refugee crisis in 2015 and we do not intend to take any action that will put that crisis at risk again.”
