一名65岁的英国前商务主管在瑞典经历五年居留权争议后被遣返回英国，与瑞典妻子和家人分离。1这名男子于2017年移居瑞典，最后一次访问英国是2022年的一周时间。1瑞典当局以《外国人法》下的居留申请被拒为由将其驱逐，他被监禁两周后于周二被遣返至伦敦希斯罗机场。1对于自己的困境，他表示："我在英国什么都没有"，现面临无家可归的局面。1
瑞典针对脱欧前赴瑞典的英国公民进行的驱逐行动引发了对脱欧协议落实情况的质疑。1根据英国驻欧委员会数据，瑞典已驱逐458名英国人，这一数字高于任何其他欧盟成员国。1英国驻欧委员会主席简·戈尔丁表示："这是另一起质疑瑞典实施是否符合脱欧协议精神的案例"。1脱欧前，英国公民享有在任何欧盟成员国居住、工作、学习或退休的权利，脱欧协议中承诺保护行使自由流动权的英国和欧盟公民的居留权。1
瑞典的驱逐行动并非孤立现象，包括78岁英国寡妇乔伊丝·托马斯（在瑞典居住21年）和74岁患痴呆症的英国男子（居住25年）等多人遭遇类似情况。1
A 65-year-old former British business executive has been deported from Sweden and separated from his wife and home following a five-year dispute over his right to remain in the country.1 The man, who relocated to Sweden in 2017 and last visited the United Kingdom for a week in 2022, was detained for two weeks before being returned to London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.1 Upon his deportation, he stated: "I have nothing in the UK at all," facing an uncertain future with no established ties to his country of origin.1
Swedish authorities rejected his residency application under the country's Aliens Act, a decision that represents part of a broader pattern of deportations affecting British citizens who moved to Sweden before Brexit.1 According to data from the UK Mission to the European Union, Sweden has deported 458 British nationals—a higher proportion than any other EU member state.1 This figure has raised concerns about whether Sweden is properly implementing the protections outlined in the Brexit withdrawal agreement, which promised to safeguard the residency rights of British and EU citizens who exercised their freedom of movement prior to the United Kingdom's departure from the bloc.1 The UK Mission's chair, Jane Golding, characterized the case as "another example that questions whether Sweden is implementing this in the spirit of the withdrawal agreement."1
The deportation is not an isolated incident.1 Other cases include a 78-year-old British widow, Joyce Thomas, who had lived in Sweden for 21 years, and a 74-year-old British man with dementia who had resided in the country for 25 years, both of whom have faced similar expulsion orders.1
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