Sweden’s government came into power with much fanfare, with the results seen as a “conservative” victory. However, as with many conservative governments across Europe, most notably the Tories in the United Kingdom, immigration numbers have only continued to soar.
In an editorial for Swedish newspaper Expressen, the paper writes that “lots of Swedish passports are being handed out to people who have not proven their identity. It is dangerous. Especially considering that citizenship cannot be revoked.”
New data shows that 60,000 foreigners received Swedish citizenship in 2023, despite a conservative government coming to power that promised to tackle mass immigration.
As the Expressen paper notes, stricter requirements for citizenship have been discussed in Sweden for the last 20 years, and there are many proposals to tighten citizenship in the works. However, it is a shock that many of these policies are not already in place, such as requiring applicants to physically. show up to the Migration Board in order to file a citizenship application. n addition, “applicants must soon provide information about who they are, where they come from and what they do,” which not previously the case before. However, neither of these laws are yet in place.
The paper writes that the Swedish state continues to fail. “But the worst thing is that citizenship has very likely been granted to people who are not entitled to it. To put it bluntly, the Swedish state is handing out passports to whoever wants them. It is totally unacceptable and poses a security risk to the Swedish state and the population. There are some new rules in the works that may make it even possible to revoke citizenship.”
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The paper further notes that in a shockingly high number of cases of granted citizenship, one out of three, the applicant has not been able to prove their identity. If these citizens cannot get ID documents from their home country, they are granted exemptions at extremely high rates.
Due to the migration pressure in 2015, the Migration Board gave out automatic permanent residence to all Syrians — or at least all people who claimed they were from Syria. In many cases, their identities could not be verified, because many of these migrants showed up without papers. Now, many of them have been granted citizenship without any knowledge of who they truly are.
Out of the 75,000 migrants who applied for citizenship in 2023, eight out of ten, 60,000 were approved. Out of that 60,000, there were 20,000 who received citizenship without proper identification.
“This is completely unacceptable and poses a security risk to the Swedish state and population. Terrorists and spies may have obtained citizenship by lying about their identity. Once they have received their passport, it is too late. The proposal to withdraw citizenship is, as I said, in the slow procedural mill of the legislative chain,” writes Expressen.
