British widow, 78, told to leave Sweden under Brexit rules after living there for 21 years
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Key context: <p>Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countries</p><p>A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.</p><p>Her case is the latest of 2,500 British people ordered to leave the country after Brexit in what campaigners and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) have said is an inexplicably hardline approach taken by the Swedish authorities. It comes two years after Sweden threatened to deport a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/family-of-uk-woman-with-alzheimers-vow-to-stop-deportation-from-sweden">British woman with dementia</a> in a care home shortly before she died.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/10/british-widow-78-told-to-leave-sweden-under-brexit-rules-after-living-there-for-21-years">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countriesA 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.Her case is the latest of 2,500 British people ordered to leave the country after Brexit in what campaigners and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) have said is an inexplicably hardline approach taken by the Swedish authorities. It comes two years after Sweden threatened to deport a British woman with dementia in a care home shortly before she died. Continue reading...
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