What happened
Migrationsverket has carried out two quality follow-ups covering approximately 1,500 cases from the years 2024 and 2025, divided into approximately 800 asylum cases and 700 citizenship cases. The reviews were conducted to address comments from Statskontoret and Riksrevisionen. According to the follow-up, approximately 83 percent of the asylum cases were assessed to be correct throughout the entire processing procedure, while the assessment in 15 percent was uncertain due to shortcomings and a small number of incorrect assessments were identified. In citizenship cases, the agency notes delays and continued long processing times, which is partly explained by strengthened controls.
Our analysis
When Migrationsverket summarizes the results as generally good, the bureaucratic language obscures what the figures mean in reality. That 15 percent of the reviewed asylum assessments are considered uncertain, and that purely incorrect decisions are made, means that people's need for protection and their lives are put at risk during processing. At the same time, the long waiting times for citizenship mean that thousands of new Swedes are kept in an administrative waiting room without the right to vote for the Riksdag or full security. The agency explains the delays with tightened controls, but it is the applicants who pay the price for the bureaucracy's slowness.
Explained
Swedish citizenship grants a person full political rights, including the right to vote in Riksdag elections and a Swedish passport.
Source: Migrationsverket