Swedish Migration Agency

Swedish Migration Agency
Migrationsverket
	Logotype of the Swedish Migration Agency
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 1969
Headquarters	Norrköping
Minister responsible	Maria Malmer Stenergard, Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy;
Agency executives	Mikael Ribbenvik, Director-General; Inga Thoresson Hallgren, Deputy Director-General;
Parent department	Ministry of Justice
Website	www.migrationsverket.se

The Swedish Migration Agency (Swedish: Migrationsverket; previous English name: Swedish Migration Board), is a Swedish government agency, established on 1 July 1969. Its task is to evaluate and decide on applications from people who want to seek a temporary residence permit, acquire permanent residence or citizenship in Sweden. This makes it involved in immigration to Sweden

The Swedish Migration Agency is under the Ministry of Justice and operates nationwide from about 40 offices. It is headquartered in Norrköping in Östergötland and is led by a Director General, currently Anders Danielsson. In 2014, the agency received 81,301 applications for asylum, of which 31,220 were granted.

In 2017 according to calculations done by weekly magazine Fokus, the agency's budget for unaccompanied minors alone at 27 billion krona represented 37% of the UNHCR:s budget for managing refugees over the entire planet.

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