Adding a language requirement to permanent residency and extending the citizenship residence requirement to eight years seems like a great way to ensure highly paid and highly educated professionals from abroad find somewhere else to live.

  • ananas@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Wait, what. I understand (and actually even support) language requirement for citizenship, but I thought they left it out from permanent residency. Well, I did until I read the article.

    Oh, ffs. As if it wasn’t hard enough before that to get foreign students to stay in the country after graduation.

    • MuricaManOP
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      1 year ago

      Language requirements absolutely make sense for citizenship. But we shouldn’t give high earning professionals a reason to leave and stop paying taxes here. If someone is able to work in English and make a ton of money here, we should absolutely encourage that. Our budget needs more people like that. The security of permanent residency makes it far more likely that they will stay.

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        1 year ago

        Making English the second major official language instead of Swedish would solve this :)