{"id":4846,"date":"2025-01-14T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:24:00","slug":"sweden-intends-to-make-citizenship-access-more-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/01\/14\/sweden-intends-to-make-citizenship-access-more-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden intends to make citizenship access more difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/sweden-wants-to-narrow-path-to-citizenship-153029f7\">Sweden Wants To Narrow Path To Citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>To become Swedish, a foreigner would have to live in Sweden for eight years &#8212; as opposed to the current five &#8212; pass a test on Swedish society and values, and do a language exam, according to the probe ordered by the centre-right government in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In concrete terms, this would mean it would be harder for a person who has committed a misdemeanour or a crime, or who has unpaid debts, to obtain Swedish nationality, said Kirsi Laakso Utvik, who led the probe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Work visas will also become more restricted &#8211; as the country raised the minimum salary required to qualify. This would tend to limit access to the better educated and trained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of the non-immigration privileged obtaining residency or citizenship is gradually ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}