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“我们正在躲藏”:患有严重健康问题的英国人担心被驱逐出瑞典‘We are in hiding’: Briton with severe health issues fears deportation from Sweden

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马克·史密斯和妻子佩特拉被告知他们是“外国人”,没有获得居留许可。摄影:安妮卡·卡尔博姆/《赫兰兹新闻报》Mark Smith with his wife, Petra, was told he was an ‘alien’ without permission to stay. Photograph: Annika Karlbom/Hallands Nyheter

马克·史密斯,他与一名瑞典女性结婚,表示他被告知三次,他无需做任何事情就能在脱欧后继续留居。一名患有严重疾病的英国人,居住在瑞典,因担心将因他所说的政府脱欧居留错误而被驱逐,被迫躲藏。

Mark Smith, who is married to a Swedish woman, says he was told three times he needed to do nothing in order to remain after Brexit A seriously ill British man living in Sweden has been forced into hiding amid fears he will be deported as a result of what he says is a government Brexit residency error.

马克·史密斯和妻子佩特拉已搬出他们在法尔肯贝格的公寓,搬进了房车公园。摄影:安妮卡·卡尔博姆/《赫兰兹新闻报》Mark Smith and his wife, Petra, have moved out of their apartment in Falkenberg to caravan park. Photograph: Annika Karlbom/Hallands Nyheter
史密斯自2017年起一直居住在瑞典。他有工作,购买了私人健康保险,并在国家税务局管理的人口登记册上完成了登记。Smith has been in Sweden since 2017. He worked, had private health insurance, and registered on the population register administered by the national tax authority.
史密斯的麻烦始于2021年,当时他申请疾病福利时,被官员告知他本应申请脱欧后的居留许可。Smith’s troubles began in 2021 when he applied for sickness benefit and was told by officials he should have applied for post-Brexit residency.

马克·史密斯,60岁,曾多次心脏病发作、中风,患有严重头痛和难以治疗的慢性高血压,他在电话中被告知应在10月17日前离开瑞典,因为他是“无权居留的外国人”。

Mark Smith, 60, who has had hearts attacks, strokes, severe headaches and chronically high blood pressure that has been difficult to treat, was told on the phone he should leave Sweden by 17 October as he was an “alien” without permission to stay.

马克·史密斯和佩特拉在2023年瑞典婚礼当天的照片。摄影:提供方Mark Smith and Petra on their wedding day in Sweden in 2023. Photograph: Supplied