- I think about them a lot.

I don't want them to live alone, says Kiflu to SVT.

He fled Eritrea to avoid the harsh military service seven years ago, and eventually came to Sandviken where he works as a cleaner and is a priest in an Eritrean congregation.

His sons are in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where they are being cared for by an aunt.

Difficult to prove kinship

His wife, the children's mother, died four years ago.

Kiflu then applied for family reunification, but has so far been refused by the Swedish Migration Agency.

The difficulty, as for many Eritreans, is to prove that the children are really his.

Now he has obtained new documents which he hopes will be sufficient, but the Swedish Migration Agency's examination may take a long time and it is unclear what will happen to the regulations in the future.

Last year, the Moderates, the Sweden Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals agreed on several tightenings of migration policy, including stricter livelihood requirements for family immigration.

However, the settlement was disputed at the Liberals' national meeting and the party leadership was forced to partially back down.

"Must get the migration in order"

Susanne Nyström, lead writer at independent liberal Dagens Nyheter, believes that the Liberals will stick to the national assembly's decision.

- It is not so strange that the Liberals are pushing for this issue because the right to family life is part of human rights, she says in a studio interview in SVT's Agenda.

- In addition, integration often goes much faster if you can bring your family here, says Nyström.

Ivar Arpi, liberal-conservative debater on his own platform Straight Right, believes that it is right to tighten the livelihood requirements.

- We will always have people who get in trouble when it comes to systems, but we have to get migration in order and that is the mandate this government has, he says.

Hear more from the studio conversation in the clip below.

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Ivar Arpi: The right to make it more difficult to be reunited with one's family.