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Sweden’s parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants’ residency permits based on bad behaviour, ​such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or ‌links to extremist organisations.

The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration ​rules by the right-wing government and its support party, ​the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election ⁠in September.

The law has been criticised by the opposition and ​human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken ​on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.

    • Ice@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Examples of things that could become justification for a cancelled residence permit include:

      • Repeated traffic offences

      • Unpaid fines/debts to the government (basically once they go to the national collections agency, this takes 3+ months)

      • Associating with terrorist organizations and/or organized crime

      • Being a threat to national security, for instance via association with a foreign power known to be conducting sabotage/hostile interference (ex. Russia, Iran, China)

      • Welfare fraud

      • Threatening public workers (including emergency personel, healthcare workers and government officials)