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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rebecca Whittaker

Is Brexit to blame for British citizens being deported from Sweden?

Sweden is enforcing a tough crackdown on immigration with a 78-year-old British widow facing deportation despite living there for 21 years because her post-Brexit residence application was too late.

But Joyce Thomas was given just four weeks to leave the country in November, three years after her husband died, The Guardian reported.

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