The agency cannot say how many cases it has that specifically concern teenage deportations - young people whose parents have the right to be in Sweden but who themselves need their own residence permit when they turn 18 and do not meet the requirements.
However, Director General Maria Mindhammar says:
We may have a hundred or possibly a few more cases pending regarding young adults.
Mindhammar adds that teenage deportations have been going on for several years.
It's rather the case that there is a lower number now than there was before.
Not everyone is helped.
The government wants to find a solution and is looking at a proposal from a study that came out last fall. The study suggested there should be the possibility of granting a residence permit if the young person lives with their parents and if there is a "special relationship of dependence" between them. However, what a "special relationship of dependence" means is not defined, which is a problem.
There, the courts have said that it's not just that you have a child-parent relationship, but that there should be something more - it should be health reasons or something else, says Mindhammar.
That proposal, according to her, might help some of the young adults, but not the vast majority.
The government and the SD are looking at how the investigation proposal should be designed.
"There is a negotiation going on right now; there are a few different options on the table," says SD's migration policy spokesperson Ludvig Aspling.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M) does not want to comment on "internal negotiations", but both he and Aspling emphasize the importance of finding a permanent solution that can be lived with in the longer term.
Can I wait?
Mindhammar states that if the government presents a bill that goes further in a positive direction for the young adults concerned than what the investigation has proposed, then the Migration Board may "wait a bit" on further decisions on teenage deportations while awaiting the law to come into force.
That could be a way out, says Mindhammar.
But that's something we'll have to decide on then.
Mindhammar points out that it would be socio-economically indefensible to make decisions that you know will be appealed and overturned in court.
Neither the government nor the SD can say when a bill might come.
TT: Is it the SD that is resisting?
"No, no more than is necessary to reach a good solution," says Aspling.
