When 12-year-old Murhaf Hamid broke the record for May flower sales last year, he lacked a residence permit – then he “most of all” wanted to buy a residence permit for himself and his family with the money he had collected from the sales, he said in interviews. Something that TV4 Nyheterna previously drew attention to.
– Some of you have decided that we will not get residence permits, Hamid said during a speech in the Riksdag last year.
But now he has been granted a residence permit and it is clear that he and his family can stay in Sweden. Fridh Advokatbyrå announces this in a post on Instagram. Something like Swedish daily newspaper was the first to report on.
“Murhaf and his family have been granted residence permits. They have been granted a residence permit mainly due to Murhaf’s strong connection to Sweden,” writes the law firm in a post on Instagram.
“However, we wish Murhaf and his family all the best in the future,” the law firm writes further in the post.
Sellers of the Mayflower get to keep a ten percent commission, a sum so large that Murhaf Hamid will have to pay taxes for it.
Received international attention
When Murhaf started selling Mayflowers, sales were not all roses. Hardly anyone bought and many adults were rude to him.
It was only when a family friend noticed that Hamid was unwell and posted on social media that sales really took off. In just a few days, sales rose to hundreds of thousands of kroner, and then it just kept rolling.
Murhaf’s successful sale attracted a lot of love and attention both in Sweden and internationally. He was praised by, among others, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Queen Silvia.