{"id":92738,"date":"2026-08-10T06:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92738"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:48:59","slug":"92738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/92738\/","title":{"rendered":"British widow, 78, told to leave Sweden under Brexit rules after living there for 21 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29Jqhw.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=444&y=278&s=326&d=326\" alt=\"Joyce Thomas, 78, is now taking the case to a higher court. Photograph: Helena Karlsson\/NWT\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/british-widow-78-told-to-leave-sweden-under-brexit-rules-after-living-there-for-21-years\/ar-AA29KbLo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a78cfdf15d44090a547de56019e5dc1&ei=68\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sweden1.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92740,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738\/revisions\/92740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}