Careless with the car bait – not allowed to stay in Sweden

Published 4 November 2024 at 11.13

Law & Right. The Migration Court of Appeal now rules that repeated fine offenses can be grounds for rejecting an application for an extended residence permit due to work.

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The current case concerns a man who was convicted of drunk driving in October 2018 and of minor drug offenses in January 2022. In April 2022, he had also received a fine for failing to wear a seat belt when driving.

The Migration Agency rejected the man's application on the grounds that they crimes he was guilty of constituted grounds for refusing him an extended residence permit and that there were also no particularly painful circumstances in the case.

The Migration Appeals Court at the Court of Appeal in Stockholm is now following the Migration Agency's line.

– The repeated crimes and the risk of recidivism outweigh the reasons the applicant put forward as a basis for a residence permit, says Court of Appeals Councilor Johan Axelsson in a statement.