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Sweden issues deportation order to 78-year-old British widow
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The Local Sweden
A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting a deportation order after the Migration Agency said her post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late, The Guardian has reportedThe Guardian has reported the case of Joyce Thomas, a retired nurse, who was issued with a deportation order from her longtime home in Sweden last November.
The Guardian previously reported on a case, two years ago, when Sweden threatened to deport a British woman with dementia from a care home, shortly before she died.
In Thomas' case, The Guardian reports, the widow was given just four weeks to leave Sweden.
The deportation order was given three years after her husband's death.
AdvertisementWith the help of lawyers who are working pro bono, she is fighting the deportation order, which, The Guardian writes, is causing "huge distress" at her advanced stage of life.