In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by panelists James Savage, Richard Orange, and Becky Waterton as well as our guest this week, Mikael Ribbenvik, the director general of the Swedish Migration Agency.

This is part one of a two-part interview. Some of the topics we cover include:

• What’s the current status of Sweden’s planned migration laws? 

Salary threshold latest

• EXPLAINED: Sweden’s plans to double the salary threshold for work permits

Moving migration reception centres outside the EU

• Swedish PM Kristersson positive on Danish offshore asylum plan

Waiting times

• Swedish Migration Agency rebuked for ‘unacceptable’ processing times
• Eight ways Sweden’s Migration Agency could cut the wait for work permits

Brexit

• IN FIGURES: How many Brits in Sweden have had their post-Brexit residence status rejected?

Exit visas for applicants awaiting extensions

• Sweden ‘will consider’ travel visas for work permit holders: migration minister interview
• ‘Sweden is like a big prison’: The tech workers trapped by work permit delays

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