My main question is why he didn’t get Swedish citizenship. I thought this would be another article about someone who just didn’t bother to apply, but he did apply and was rejected:

Sellers was aware that Brexit might affect his right to stay in the country and, without any communication from government authorities, he considered his best option was to apply for Swedish citizenship.

This he did in September 2021, before the Brexit deadline of 31 December that year.

Not only was his citizenship rejected, but two subsequent attempts to remain in the country under family rights in national migration laws via his partner, now his wife, were also turned down.

The latest adjudication, after he appealed against the first decision to refuse him residency on the grounds of a family relationship with Caroline, whom he had yet to marry, was that they had “not lived together abroad for an extended period of time”.

That leaves me wondering why he was rejected for citizenship. It makes me wonder if it’s something like a criminal history, or living on social benefits or something like that, or if it was just a series of beaurocrats that have a directive to try and get immigration / naturalization numbers down.