The new appeal was lodged on September 30th, three weeks after the Migration Court in Malmö rejected the initial appeal on the grounds, among other things, that Sweden's parliament had intended the unfair effects of not including transitional arrangements for existing applications.
The Malmö court will now send the appeal onwards to the Migration Court of Appeal in Stockholm – Sweden's highest migration court – which will first decide whether to grant leave to appeal.
If the Stockholm court grants leave to appeal, the Migration Agency will be asked to provide responses to the arguments made by the rejected applicants' lawyers, who are working pro-bono as part of the Fair Transition campaign.
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In a statement to The Local, the Migration Court of Appeal said it was "considering whether to hear a case concerning citizenship in light of the new legislation".
The court has already refused several citizenship applicants rejected by the Migration Court in Gothenburg leave to appeal.
This is, however, the first time an appeal has been made to a judgement by the Malmö court.
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The decision was made by two chief judges and three lay magistrates, an unusually high level of scrutiny in such a case.
Although the Migration Court of Appeal only grants leave to appeal in a tiny proportion of cases, Fredrik Löndahl, the chief judge at the Malmö Court, told The Local in an interview that he expects it to hear this case.