Migrationsrätt – Vanliga frågor

1. How do I apply for residence permit in Sweden?

The application for a residence permit is made through the Swedish Migration Agency, either online or at an embassy in your home country. The type of application you need to submit depends on the basis for your residence permit, such as work, relationship, or studies.

AdamLaw helps you find the right residence permit, ensures all documents are accurate and in order, to maximize the chances of a swift approval. Contact me for a free initial assessment of your case!

2. What do I do if the Swedish Migration Agency denies my application?

If your residence permit application is denied, you have the right to appeal within three (3) weeks from the date you were notified of the decision. How you are notified is crucial, as it determines when the three-week period begins. Unsure? Go by the date of the decision!

Migration lawyer Adam Lindström has extensive experience handling appeals against the Swedish Migration Agency, with a high success rate against the authority, and can maximize your chances of success. Book an appointment to discuss your case now!

3. How do I go about appealing a decision?

A decision from the Swedish Migration Agency is appealed to the Migration Court at the Administrative Court. Even though the appeal is to be assessed by the Migration Court, you must still submit your appeal to the Swedish Migration Agency, which will ensure it is forwarded to the correct court.
In your appeal, you must include your personal identity number/coordination number, address, phone number, and the reference number related to the complainant. You should also specify what you are appealing (what you are dissatisfied with) and how you want the court to change the decision (what outcome you are seeking). All evidence supporting your appeal must be included with the submission.
A qualified migration lawyer can help you evaluate your chances of success, identify the grounds for your appeal, and persuade the court that the Swedish Migration Agency made an error. Don't hesitate regarding your future in Sweden—let Sweden's top migration appeal lawyer, Adam M. Lindström, secure your residence permit!

4. I have a work permit, how do I apply for a Permanent Residence Permit?

If you have had a work permit in Sweden for a total of 4 years, you can apply for a permanent residence permit in Sweden. However, if one of your permits was shorter than 2 years, this could cause issues, as could problems with your workplace, a criminal conviction, or not having permanent employment.

5. What a "citizenship profile"?

The Swedish Migration Agency's handling of citizenship applications and issuance of Swedish citizenship is undergoing significant changes. Have you received a letter from the Swedish Migration Agency after applying for Swedish citizenship? You're not alone! The agency's scrutiny of applicants has increased and is set to intensify further soon.

Let AdamLaw and citizenship expert Adam M. Lindström ensure your citizenship profile is flawless! Your Swedish citizenship is too important to risk!

6. What practical changes will be implemented?

As of 2025, the Swedish Migration Agency has introduced stricter measures for citizenship applications, including mandatory in-person identity checks and enhanced security protocols to prevent individuals posing security risks or using false identities from obtaining citizenship. Applicants will receive a letter to book a personal visit to verify their identity, and additional information may be required. These changes apply to both new and pending applications.

7. Im an EU citizen, do I need a residence permit in Sweden?

No, the European Union and the Schengen cooperation is built on the idea if freedom of movement. Thus you can stay in Sweden for a duration of three (3) months, then you have to inform the Swedish tax agency, register as living in Sweden and fulfill the requirements for "uppehållsrätt", through work, studies or living of your own means.

Work permit

At this very moment the main rule is that an individual who applys for a work permit in Sweden needs to earn at least 80% of a Swedish median pay (29 589 SEK/month) in order to obtain a permit. What constitutes 80% of the Swedish median pay varies yearly, but the paylevel at the time of your application is the level you are subjegated to. This regulation is due to change soon making the paylevel needed 100% of the median pay, but a lot of work groups will be excluded (about a third of the total amount of SSYK coded workers), stay tuned for more information.

Do you know your rights as a worker in Sweden? I do, let me fight for yours! And keep informed!

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Migration law?

Migration law is a specially complex area of the law, but to keep things simple, migration law (or immigration law) is the set of rules governing all who enters and/or stays, in a country they are not citizens of, like Sweden. Since migration law is complex through its dispersment into laws, regulations, preworks and case law, its always a good idea to at least consult a migration law expert like Adam M. Lindström in Stockholm Sweden to avoid common fall pits, misstakes and maximize your chances of a positive decision.

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* Swedish citizenship application, appeal and evaluation
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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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Rejection, retrying and appealing

Did you make a mistake, missed a regulation or mayby the Migration Agency did an error (it happens, believe me)? Either way, there is no point in giving up and resign. Send your negative decision to a trusted and competent migration lawyer, like Adam M. Lindström, for an honest review as soon as you can.

An honest and good migration lawyer will tell you if they assess the appeal will most likely fail and recommend alternatives, and if there is something that can be done show you the best path forward to fight it in appeal court (approx. processing times in some migration courts are 8-14 months).

But an honest, experienced and great lawyer like Adam M. Lindström will first investigate the posibilites of geting the case re-tryed through and order (begäran om omprövning). If sucessfull, The Swedish Migration Agency is forced to look at the case again saving a lot of time for you, and it stil makes an appeal possible to enforce.

In my somewhat tilted and bias opinion a migration or immigration lawyer is a NEED when you appeal a decision to the Migration court. Even if you intend to write the appeal yourself, which I do not recommend, please do book a meeting and talk to a lawyer first. You would surprised by the amount of clients I have assisted who´'s rejection could have easily been avoided, now costing a lot of money, causing a lot of stress and eating up time.

Save yourself the headache, the money and the unnecessary risk, book a meeting with our migration and immigration specialist Adam M. Lindström.

Residence permit - connection

When applying for a residence permit to move to someone in Sweden there are formal requirements such as income, housing of correct size and standard, and contract length to adhere too, in order to obtain a positive decision. Click HERE to see the formal requirements.

I have seen one too many negative decisions (avslag) from the Migration agency due to misunderstanding and/or failing to meet these formal requirements. I urge you to contact a qualified migration lawyer to make sure you fullfil these requirements in they way the Migration Agency wants to see them fulfilled.

There is also the requirement of being in a serious relationship as the Migrations Agency likes to call it. The issue with this very subjective assessment the Agency makes, is that if they do not deem your relationship serious in accordance to their subjective matrix, its now deemed "not serious", which can result in issues in future applications.

Therefore it´ is important to speak with a Swedish migration lawyer who knows what the Migration agency want to see, and help you present it in manner resulting in a positive decision on your application for residence permit.______________________________________________________

Keep an eye out for our blogg post for more information, or even better, book a meeting with Mr. Adam M. Lindström, expert migration lawyer and Master of Laws (L.LM.) to get a competent and honest assesment of your case from a friendly migration lawyer.

Adam M. Lindström is a well renowned migration lawyer from Stockholm who has guided applicants to residence permits in Sweden for years. Adam M. Lindström is know to win the impossible residence permit appeals and know to have a near perfect new applications for residence permit approve rate.