Earlier this year the Fair Transition campaign group tried to convince Swedish decision makers to introduce transitional rules for the citizenship reforms which came into force on June 6th.
Two months have now passed since the Swedish parliament voted against these transitional provisions by the smallest of margins after the far-right Sweden Democrats sent in two MPs who were supposed to be withheld from the vote.
So what now for the campaigners fighting on behalf of the 100,000 citizenship applicants waiting in the citizenship queue?
The Local’s editor Emma Löfgren caught up with the group's spokesman Patrick Gallen to find out more about Fair Transitions plans as they prepare to mount a legal challenge in Sweden's migration courts.
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