{"id":93987,"date":"2022-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13481\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:00:00","slug":"13481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13481","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Refugees in Sweden Appeal for Permanent Residence Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian refugees in Sweden continue to appeal to the Swedish authorities to grant them permanent residence permits and enhance their legal status.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a feature published by the Swedish platform Aktarr, a Palestinian refugee from Syria said he arrived in Sweden in late 2015 and obtained a permanent residence permit. Asylum seekers with children were, however, granted permanent residence permits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon his arrival, the refugee obtained an internship. Six years ago, he obtained a legal work permit and for two years he received a 63% aid from the labor office. Later, he obtained a one-year contract. When he re-applied for permanent residence some three years ago, the syndicate said his salary is lower than the required wage.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the refugee, such a precondition has been canceled in recent years. However, his condition has not been changed and he has been denied the right to social and legal protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Swedish law, for those who have a permanent residence permit, the residence permit card is valid for a maximum of five years. Thereafter, the concerned person will need a new card. For those who have a temporary residence permit, the residence permit card is valid for as long as the permit. The residence card is not an identity document or a travel document.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Swedish Migration Agency also set tough requirements for becoming a Swedish citizen. Applicants are required to prove their identity\u201d\u201dquite a difficult task for Palestinian refugees who lost their documents as a result of war and years of displacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The applicant should also be 18 years of age or older, have a permanent residence permit (a temporary residence permit is not applicable), or have a right of residence or residence card (applies to the applicant if he\/she is an EU citizen or a close relative of an EU citizen).<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to apply for citizenship, the candidate should have met the requirements for habitual residence (i.e. lived in Sweden for a certain amount of time) and have conducted him(her)self well while in Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such tough conditions make it almost impossible for refugees holding temporary visas and wishing to obtain permanent visas to apply for citizenship in the kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since mid-July 2016, the Swedish authorities suspended permanent visa procedures for holders of temporary protection cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past few years, thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees, among other migrants, who have applied for asylum in Sweden were only granted two-year temporary visas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestinian refugees in Sweden continue to appeal to the Swedish authorities to grant them permanent residence permits and enhance their legal status. In a feature published by the Swedish platform Aktarr, a Palestinian refugee from Syria said he arrived in Sweden in late 2015 and obtained a permanent residence permit. Asylum seekers with children were, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}