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The Swedish Immigration Agency now assesses that in “certain cases it is possible to obtain a permanent residence permit despite having a trial period”.
Probation may be sufficient to obtain a permanent residence permit in Sweden, according to the new assessment by the Swedish Immigration Board.
Under a temporary law, those wishing to obtain a permanent residence permit must be able to demonstrate a secure livelihood, for example having a permanent job or being self-employed. Therefore, people with a trial job, a relatively precarious form of employment, have not previously received a permanent residence permit.
But now there may be other commandments. The Swedish Migration Agency assesses that in “some cases it may be possible to obtain a permanent residence permit even if it has a trial period,” the authority writes on its website. The precondition is that it is clear that the trial job will transfer to permanent employment.
Individual assessment
“We mainly see that our new government means that we will do an individual assessment, which can make a difference in certain cases – precisely the individual assessment,” Daniel Grynfarb, unit director of the Swedish Migration Board, writes to TT.
Maria Malmer Stenergard, spokesperson for immigration policy for the moderates, is “very surprised and deeply concerned.”
– What surprises me is that there is nothing in the legislation that has changed, but now all of a sudden it is enough with probation anyway, he says.
“Erode trust”
More people than originally intended will now receive a residence permit through trial employment, when those who really should take priority are the people with the greatest need for protection, according to Malmer Stenergard.
– This means that we erode trust in our immigration legislation to an even greater degree. One sends signals is that as long as you hold on, it is enough to get a permanent residence permit in Sweden, he says.
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