British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years
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Joyce Thomas, 78, is facing deportation away from her son, grandchildren and husband's grave A 78-year-old British widow has told the BBC she is struggling to eat or sleep as the Swedish government threatens to deport her over a late post-Brexit residence application.
78 岁的乔伊斯·托马斯 (Joyce Thomas) 面临被驱逐出境，远离她儿子、孙子和丈夫的坟墓 一名 78 岁的英国寡妇告诉 BBC，瑞典政府威胁要因她迟交的脱欧后居留申请将她驱逐出境，导致她吃不下饭、睡不好觉。
Joyce Thomas, a retired nurse, moved to Sweden 22 years ago with her husband, who passed away from cancer three years ago.
乔伊斯·托马斯 (Joyce Thomas) 是一名退休护士，22 年前与她的丈夫搬到了瑞典，三年前她的丈夫因癌症去世。
The threat of deportation came after Swedish authorities said they should have made a formal application to stay in the country after Brexit.
瑞典当局表示，他们应该在英国脱欧后正式申请留在该国，之后就发出了驱逐出境的威胁。
Thomas has since had numerous applications and appeals rejected, and Tuesday marks the latest deadline for her to leave voluntarily.
此后，托马斯的许多申请和上诉都被拒绝，周二是她自愿离开的最后期限。
"This is absolute hell," she said from her home in Sweden.
“这绝对是地狱，”她在瑞典的家中说道。
"I can't sleep, I can't eat.
“我睡不着，吃不下。
You get up in the morning, you don't know what's going to happen." The Swedish migration minister told the BBC that the government would "examine whether there are measures we can take to make the process easier for those affected" by some consequences of the EU-UK withdrawal agreement.
当你早上起床时，你不知道会发生什么。” 瑞典移民部长告诉英国广播公司，政府将“研究是否可以采取措施，让那些受到欧盟-英国脱欧协议的一些后果影响的人的过程变得更容易”。
When the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, British citizens stopped being EU citizens, which meant they could no longer stay in Sweden with right of residence status.
当英国于2020年1月31日离开欧盟时，英国公民不再是欧盟公民，这意味着他们不能再以居留权身份留在瑞典。
During a transitional period, British citizens could apply for residence status under the withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU - which ended on 31 December 2021.
在过渡期内，英国公民可以根据英国与欧盟之间的脱欧协议（该协议于 2021 年 12 月 31 日结束）申请居留身份。
Thomas said she and her husband were unaware that they needed to submit an application and she was only informed of the rule once she attempted to re-enter the country in 2023.
托马斯说，她和她的丈夫不知道他们需要提交申请，直到她试图在 2023 年重新进入该国时才得知这一规定。
After years of appeals, the Migrationsverket, the Swedish government agency responsible for migration, told her last month that her voluntary departure deadline was 8 September.
经过多年的呼吁，瑞典负责移民的政府机构 Migrationsverket 上个月告诉她，她自愿离境的最后期限是 9 月 8 日。
Her lawyers are arguing against the deportation, but she is still waiting to hear from the government.
她的律师反对驱逐出境，但她仍在等待政府的答复。
Thomas said the possibility of having to leave her son, grandchildren, friends and husband's grave has become too much to bear.
托马斯说，不得不离开儿子、孙子、朋友和丈夫坟墓的可能性已经让人难以承受。
"I'm tired, I really am tired and I'm not young anymore," she said.
“我累了，我真的累了，我不再年轻了，”她说。
"Where is the empathy?
“同理心在哪里？
I've lived here for more than 20 years - I've got friends, I've got family." According to Eurostat data, between 2021 and 2025, 2,490 UK nationals were ordered to leave Sweden.
我在这里住了 20 多年了——我有朋友，有家人。” 根据欧盟统计局的数据，2021年至2025年间，有2,490名英国国民被勒令离开瑞典。
This is almost a third of more than 7,500 UK nationals ordered to leave the 27 EU Member States over this time period. The Migrationsverket said it could not comment on Thomas's case without her consent and did not respond to a question about how many British nationals are at risk of deportation.
这几乎是在此期间被勒令离开 27 个欧盟成员国的 7,500 多名英国国民中的三分之一。 移民局表示，未经托马斯同意，不会对她的案件发表评论，也没有回答有关有多少英国国民面临被驱逐出境风险的问题。
However, it told the Guardian last week that 458 British citizens had been deported or forcibly removed since Brexit.
然而，它上周告诉《卫报》，自英国脱欧以来，已有 458 名英国公民被驱逐出境或强行驱逐。
Last month, a family told the BBC how their father, who has dementia and vascular parkinsonism and is living in full-time care in Sweden, was also threatened with removal after more than two decades in the country.
上个月，一个家庭告诉英国广播公司，他们的父亲患有痴呆症和血管性帕金森症，目前在瑞典接受全职护理，在该国生活了二十多年后，他也受到了被驱逐的威胁。
Swedish Minister for Migration, Johan Forssell, told the BBC that the current framework was implemented by a previous government and that it "will therefore look closely at the situation and examine whether there are measures we can take to make the process easier for those affected".
瑞典移民部长约翰·福塞尔告诉英国广播公司，当前的框架是由前任政府实施的，因此“将密切关注局势，并研究是否可以采取措施，让受影响的人更容易移民”。
He did not address Thomas's case directly but said "the government believes the rules should be applied generously".
他没有直接谈到托马斯的案件，但表示“政府认为应该慷慨地应用这些规则”。
"The UK is a very important partner for Sweden, and we want British citizens who live and work in Sweden to be able to remain here," he said.
“英国是瑞典非常重要的合作伙伴，我们希望在瑞典生活和工作的英国公民能够留在瑞典，”他说。
"We are currently in dialogue with the relevant Swedish authorities to get a clearer picture of what measures may be possible," he added.
他补充说：“我们目前正在与瑞典有关当局进行对话，以更清楚地了解可能采取哪些措施。”
Håkan Svenneling, Thomas's MP from the opposition Vänsterpartiet (The Left Party), has criticised the government's "inhumane migration policy".
来自反对党Vänsterpartiet（左翼党）的托马斯议员哈坎·斯文内林（Håkan Svenneling）批评政府“不人道的移民政策”。
"That is why I hope that Sunday's election in Sweden will be a turning point where the opposition can form a government and change migration policy so that Joyce and other Britons with strong ties to Sweden can stay here," he told the BBC.
“这就是为什么我希望瑞典周日的选举将成为一个转折点，反对派可以组建政府并改变移民政策，以便乔伊斯和其他与瑞典有密切关系的英国人可以留在这里，”他告诉英国广播公司。
A spokesperson from the the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said: "We welcome the statement from the Swedish authorities that they will look at this issue.
英国外交、联邦和发展办公室发言人表示：“我们欢迎瑞典当局声明他们将研究这个问题。
We are ready to support them in doing so." Legal bid to stop dementia patient's deportation
我们准备支持他们这样做。” 阻止痴呆症患者被驱逐出境的法律行动
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