Swedish Citizenship
Obtaining a Swedish citizenship is an honor and a privilege. Thats why the requirements are high and the process sometime lenghty, and the requirements are soon due to be rasied. Thats why Adam M. Lindström takes on one symbolic Swedish citizenship cases on a pro-bono basis every year.
Applications for Swedish citizenship is the largest of the Swedish Migration Agencys application-groups (the year 2023 the Agency made 75 000 decisions regarding Swedish citizenship, 58 000 made through application). This have made the Swedish Migration Agency encumbered, resulting in applicants waiting years for a decision.
The main reason is "utredningskrävande ansökningar", applications that requires further investigation. About 75% of the applications are affected by this resulting in the total amount of time waiting for a decision that is comprised by waiting in line is over 80%!
Can you affect the processing times of your application since your friends got their Citizenships before you, even if they applied after you?
Yes and No. Beware the lawyer that goes to yes without skiping a beat when asked this question!
If the process is already ongoing, the only thing a lawyer can do for you is to contact the agency and see if there are any need for more information and initiate contact with a case manage. A request to conclude is really not successful in actually saving time, even if appealed successfully (trust me I had a 95,5 % success-rate with those specific appeals and wish it was the case).
There are some actions that can be taken the reduce the time some, but it all depends on your specific situation and personal life and warrants an evaluation meeting.
My thoughts and best tip?
As a Migration lawyer who have specialized in both the practice and the theory of obtaining, appealing and reinstating Swedish Citizenship, I have a clear strategy, your profile! A good lawyer helps you prepare before applying to save time, A great lawyer will tell you to start working on your profile right from your first day on entering Sweden.
If you can present a clear, trustworthy and transparent profile of you as a person along with the application for Swedish Citizenship you have now saved yourself and the Swedish Migration Agency a lot of time and will be shortlisted for a decision.
The secret is to understand that a residence permit is kind of a right if you fulfill all requirements, but a Swedish Citizenship is a privilege. The application must therefore be treated as such to gain success.
The Swedish authorities, especially the Migration Agency, have initiated actions to mirror the importance of the privilege (e.g 8 years in Sweden minimum, language requirement), making preparation for the application process even more important!
Contact Adam M. Lindström, one of Swedens foremost Citizenship experts, for clear and sound advice, and let him guide you towards your goal! Your future Swedish citizenship is too important not to!
JuristAdamlindstrom@gmail.com
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