Three years in the queue — will David make it in time before the new citizenship rules come into force?

With ten days till the stricter rules for Swedish citizenship come into effect, David Hollingsworth got an email to say it was time for the last leg of his application process: the personal appearance at the offices of the Migration Agency.

He booked the first appointment he could find, even though it meant getting an expensive train ticket to travel 350 km from Skövde to Stockholm.

"I'd kind of given up hope of it happening in time, but fingers crossed, there's enough time now to get things sorted," he told Radio Sweden as he was about to head in to his appointment. ...