Paradox Is Trying To Prevent Hearts of Iron IV Producer From Being Deported

Vachon Pugh, a game producer on the Hearts of Iron series, faces deportation in Sweden after one of her previous employers failed to pay fees associated with hiring an international worker. Paradox Interactive, the developer and publisher behind Hearts of Iron, is trying to prevent the deportation.

"I was very surprised and panicked. I contacted my manager and I was completely freaking out," Pugh said of a letter she received from the Swedish Migration Agency in an interview. "I knew it was a risk that it could happen, because when we applied for renewal they asked for additional information, but I thought we had taken care of it and done everything we needed to do."

Pugh moved to Sweden from Florida in 2018 and has been employed by two different companies while in abroad before joining Paradox. Her second employer failed to pay out all workplace and pension insurances during her trial period there. Swedish migrations laws had been changed in 2015 so those payments needed to be made during her trial working period meaning the "conditions for [her] previous work permit were not met," according to a letter sent to her by the Swedish Migration Agency.

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