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.

[5] The Swedish Migration Agency has come under criticism for its opaque handling of expatriate work permit applications and inordinate delays coupled with over-zealous, often controversial, readings of Swedish regulations related to insurance requisites for work permit extensions.

In May 2016 the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine sv: Rättsmedicinalverket (RMV) started aiding the agency with determining the age of migrants claiming to be under 18.

[7] RMV was tasked with doing the backlog of 3000 - 14000 age investigations which had been obstructed by Swedish Bar Association lawyers, doctors, dentists and officials of National Board of Health and Welfare.<\ref> In June 2016 the SMA expressed doubts about 70% of asylum applicants purportedly 15-17.

[8] In July 2018, the agency together with municipalities of Sweden was criticised by the national agency against honor-related crime (Swedish: nationella kompetensteamet mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck) for not doing enough to discover and rectify child marriages among migrants.