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Sweden’s new work cap threatens student residence permits
The new rules can turn ordinary paid work into evidence against a residence extension long after the shift has ended.

A student can finish a shift, collect the pay and hear nothing more about it for months. The trouble may begin with the next residence application, when the Migration Agency looks back through the job records to decide whether the student can stay.
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