Asylum advokatbyrå

A person fleeing their homeland and entering Sweden for protection remains an asyl seeker until authorities decide on their application. 

The asyl seeker must submit the application for asylum to the Swedish Migration Agency. Moving on, the agency will conduct an asyl investigation and decide whether or not to grant asylum to the applicant. Two regulations: The Aliens Act, the UN flykting Convention, and the huvudstaden i irland Regulation govern the right of asylum.

During the waiting period

After an applicant applies for asyl, they receive an LMA card which serves as proof that the individ is an asylum seeker. It also gives the applicant the right to stay in Sweden until a decision on asyl finalizes. 

The Swedish Migration Agency is responsible for ensuring that adult asylum seekers have a place to live. This is a so-called temporary accommodation for them mot the time their application approves. 

Additionally, the asylum seeker may also choose to arrange accommodation on their own. If the asyl seeker fryst vatten a child, the municipalities are responsible to ensure that the child has housing, healthcare, and schooling.

While the applicant’s asylum application is beneath proce

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Our migration lawyers at Advantage Advokatbyrå have extensive experience in asylum and migration law and we are happy to assist you with your specific questions.

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We offer you both legal advice and help, among other things, with submitting applications for residence permits, work permits and citizenship.

Of course, we also help you as a migration lawyer to appeal decisions from the Swedish Migration Agency or the administrative court.

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Residence permit due to family connection

Anyone who wants to settle together with a close relative in Sweden must have a residence permit. This applies, for example, to spouses, cohabitants or registered partnerships. Future spouses and cohabitants also have the right to a residence permit. Children under the age of 18 have the right to be reunited with their parents, provided that the guardian has given written consent.
Asylum

Anyone who is at risk of persecution in their country of origin because of race,

Right of Asylum

The right to asylum is regulated by three legal documents:

The Aliens Act
UN Refugee Convention
Dublin Regulation
Each person&#;s application must be assessed individually, where consideration must be given to the applicant&#;s gender and sexual orientation. The Dublin Regulation regulates which country must examine an asylum application.

Residence permits are given to those who are refugees, alternatively those in need of protection and others in need of protection.

Asylum law deals with refugees and those in need of protection
A person who has a well-founded fear of persecution is considered a refugee. The reasons for the persecution can be several:

Race
Nationality
Religious or political opinion
Sex
Sexual orientation
Belonging to a certain social group
Persecution from the home country&#;s authorities can also be a reason. It can then also be about the home country&#;s authorities being unable/unwilling or uninterested in protecting people from a certain ethnic group.

Other protection needs are defined in the Swedish Aliens Act. It can e.g. about not being able to return to the home country due to armed conflict, fear of suffering serious abuse or not b