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Amendments to Swedish Law Leave About 1,700 Asylum Seekers Homeless

© REUTERS / Drago PrvulovicEU migrants are evicted by police from a camp in Malmoe, Sweden, November 3, 2015.
EU migrants are evicted by police from a camp in Malmoe, Sweden, November 3, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Amendments cutting off access to accommodation and a daily monetary allowance to asylum seekers in Sweden whose applications had been rejected came into force on January 1 and left 1,700 unsuccessful asylum seekers on the streets, according to media reports.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Around 1,700 unsuccessful asylum seekers were left on the streets of Sweden after amendments to the country's asylum law, media reported Wednesday.

Amendments cutting off access to accommodation and a daily monetary allowance to asylum seekers whose applications had been rejected came into force on January 1.

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According to Sweden's Sveriges Radio, more than 2,400 individuals were notified of the suspension of their allowance, 1,700 of them also received notifications instructing them to move out of the housing provided by the Swedish Migration Agency.

In June, the Swedish government intensified ID controls on routes between the country and Denmark, seeking to curb the inflow of undocumented migrants.

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