My first thoughts were this was obviously a stupid cock-up that would be immediately sorted out.
18-year-old Anastasiia Bigun's parents and two siblings have been granted permanent residency by Migrationsverket, while she's to be deported back to Ukraine.
Even though she has no family or friends in a country she left five years ago, and has lived in Sweden since she was 13. After a tough start, she’s become fluent in Swedish and has Swedish friends. She wants to be a doctor in Sweden, and we’re not exactly overstocked with healthcare professionals. In short, Anastasiia is exactly the type of immigrant we should be encouraging to move and stay here.
It's a bit odd that the family had already waited two years for a decision on Anastasiia's residency permit. When they submitted her residency application, she was only 16 years old. Then, just after her 18th birthday, when she became an adult and is no longer officially reliant on her parents, she received a deportation notice.
I'm sure the decision wasn't premeditated, I'm sure it was just coincidence that she received the deportation at that time, but it doesn't help that Migrationsverket's guidelines suggest there isn't even a full-scale war in Ukraine. Just what constitutes a full-scale war? Nuclear bomb mushroom clouds a couple of times a week?
The lack of humanity on display here worries me.
One of the reasons we moved to Sweden was because we felt it was the type of fair, civilised country we knew the increasingly intolerant UK could never be again. When we became Swedish citizens a few years ago, we were proud of our new country's forward-thinking approach, especially given we have twin daughters.
But under the current government that feeling is starting to dissolve. Instead this story, and the plight of non-EU ex-Northvolters, underlines the growing similarities of the social policies of Sweden and the UK.
Now, I'm starting to feel like one of the farmyard creatures at the end of George Orwell's Animal Farm when they look from pig to man, and from man to pig, but cannot tell which is which.
This is a column and the views are the writer's own.