2025-03-122024/25:SfU17 · p.1SfUMigration & social insurance
Rejection of the proposition
Motion to reject the government bill on removal-order lapsing, the labour-market track change, and re-entry bans
What's at stake: If the bill were rejected in full, none of the legislative changes would go ahead, which particularly concerns people waiting for the lapsing period on a removal order to run out, people who can currently switch to a work-permit track, and people facing a re-entry ban.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
Parliament considered whether the government's bill on the lapsing of removal orders, ending the labour-market track change, and new rules on re-entry bans should be rejected in full, or whether parliament should instead proceed to consider the proposals on their merits.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee takes a positive view of the government's proposals to change the lapsing rules for removal orders, introduce a re-entry ban of up to five years, and abolish the labour-market track change, noting among other things that current lapsing rules allow foreigners who evade enforcement long enough to obtain a full new review, and that the track change is in practice used as a route into the labour market alongside regular labour migration. The committee therefore rejects the motion to reject the bill in full.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (MP)
MP argues that the government's proposal for the lapsing period to start running only once the asylum seeker has left the country would in practice mean that people who cannot leave Sweden for various reasons never get a fresh full review, while no concrete estimates exist of how many decisions will actually be enforceable. The party warns that the shadow society will grow if no new review is offered and no measures address the underlying causes. MP also wants to keep the track change, seeing it as an important motivating factor for self-support and integration and an incentive to establish one's identity, and therefore believes the bill should be rejected in full.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Yes 21/0/0/3
S
–
Yes 93/0/0/13
MPown reservation
–
No 0/14/0/4
C
–
Yes 19/0/0/5
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 15/0/0/4
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Yes 62/0/0/10
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects motion
2024/25:3332 by Annika Hirvonen et al. (MP) point 1.
Riksdag decision: The government proposes legislative amendments, among other things, to encourage more people to leave Sweden following a removal decision, that is, deportation or expulsion to the home country. The Riksdag approved the proposal.
The legislative amendments entail, among other things, the following:
A removal decision shall cease to apply (be prescribed) five years from when the foreign national has complied with the decision and left Sweden. According to current rules, the corresponding period is four years. If the decision is associated with a so-called re-entry ban that is in effect at that time, the decision shall cease to apply only when the re-entry ban expires.
Re-entry bans shall be determined for a maximum of five years, instead of one year as is currently the case. A re-entry ban means a prohibition from returning to Sweden. The re-entry ban may be longer, among other things, if the person poses a serious security threat.
The system of so-called track-switching is abolished. Track-switching means that a person who has received a rejection of their asylum application has the opportunity to instead seek a residence and work permit without leaving Sweden.
The legislative amendments enter into force on 1 April 2025.
The Riksdag also decided to reject proposals in motions within the field, of which two were submitted during the general motion period 2024.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants parliament to reject the government's proposal and maintain the possibility of switching from asylum to work permit. (MP) — Reservation 1
Motion 2024/25:3065 — Stärkta rättigheter för arbetskraftsinvandrare av Annika Hirvonen m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2024/25:3324 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:92 Preskription av avlägsnandebeslut och vissa frågor om återreseförbud av Tony Haddou m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:3332 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:92 Preskription av avlägsnandebeslut och vissa frågor om återreseförbud av Annika Hirvonen m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2024/25:3336 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:92 Preskription av avlägsnandebeslut och vissa frågor om återreseförbud av Jonny Cato m.fl. (C)
Proposition 2024/25:92 — Preskription av avlägsnandebeslut och vissa frågor om återreseförbud