Photo: Jessica Gow/TTTT/The Local · 9 Sep 2016, 09:34Published: 09 Sep 2016 08:58 GMT+02:00Updated: 09 Sep 2016 09:34 GMT+02:00Sweden will make medical age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers by examining their teeth and knee joints. With over 35,000 coming last year alone, Sweden has taken in more unaccompanied children and young people than any other country in Europe, and many of them lack identity documents. The migration authority (Migrationsverket) makes an initial age assessment with every application, but the tests have been criticized for being ineffective. As a solution, the Swedish government asked for medical age assessments to be carried out on a large scale. Between 15,000 and 18,000 age assessments will now be needed, the agency said.

Source: The Local September 09, 2016 07:05 UTC