(edit title) Swedish Citizenship If you already have a Permanent residence and get married Options

[Long_Winter]

Hi folks,

I am just wondering...If you already have a permanent residence and get married/sambo with a Swedish person, how long will it take to get Swedish passport? 1, 2, 3 years?

My logic is this, if you have a sambo after 2 years you get permanent and after a year you get citizenship.

But if you already have a permanent residence and get married/sambo with a Swedish person, how long will it take?

Any experience?

Cheers

[gplusa]

"But if you already have a permanent residence and get married/sambo with a Swedish person, how long will it take?". I arrived into Sweden already with permanent residency granted and was already married to a Swedish citizen. I was elegible to apply for Swedish citizenship 3 years after arriving into Sweden.

The requirement for reducing the time to qualify for citizenship based on a relationship is based around the time you have spent living with your Swedish partner. The requirement is that you must have been living together in Sweden for the last 2 of the last 3 years, prior to the date you apply for citizenship. The other requirement is that you have been granted permanent residency at the time you apply. How long you have had permanent residency doesn't matter. It can be one year, as in the case that you mentioned, or it can be 3 years as was my case. The date you receive your PUT doesn't change the citizenship date if you are claiming on relationship grounds. Without the relationship claim, the time for citizenship is taken from the date your UT/PUT was issued, or from the date you arrived into Sweden if you had already been granted a UT/PUT.

[Westport]

Directly from the Migrationsverket website (English version):
Reduced time period if you are living with a Swedish citizen
If you have been married to, living in a registered partnership with or cohabiting with a Swedish citizen for at least the past two years, you may apply for Swedish citizenship after spending three years in Sweden. If your husband, wife, partner or common law spouse was formerly the citizen of another country (or were stateless), he or she must have now been a Swedish citizen for at least two years. It is not sufficient that you are married, for example — you must also live together.

You must also have a permanent residence permit or a permanent right of residence in Sweden when you apply for citizenship. Your countdown clock for the three years starts from when you applied successfully for that permanent residence permit (if you were already living in Sweden) or when you entered Sweden to live based on a previously granted permanent residence.

[JulieLou40]

"But if you already have a permanent residence and get married/sambo with a Swedish person, how long will it take?". I arrived into Sweden already with permanent res ... (show full quote)

"But if you already have a permanent residence and get married/sambo with a Swedish person, how long will it take?". I arrived into Sweden already with permanent residency granted and was already married to a Swedish citizen. I was elegible to apply for Swedish citizenship 3 years after arriving into Sweden.

The requirement for reducing the time to qualify for citizenship based on a relationship is based around the time you have spent living with your Swedish partner. The requirement is that you must have been living together in Sweden for the last 2 of the last 3 years, prior to the date you apply for citizenship. The other requirement is that you have been granted permanent residency at the time you apply. How long you have had permanent residency doesn't matter. It can be one year, as in the case that you mentioned, or it can be 3 years as was my case. The date you receive your PUT doesn't change the citizenship date if you are claiming on relationship grounds. Without the relationship claim, the time for citizenship is taken from the date your UT/PUT was issued, or from the date you arrived into Sweden if you had already been granted a UT/PUT. ... (hide full quote)

So does that mean that after 3 years of living in Sweden with my Swedish sambo (and I'm assuming I will get permanent residence in just a few months when I hit the 2 yr mark), I will be able to apply for Citizenship?

[Long_Winter]

@Julie...3 years with your sambo is enough to be granted a swedish passport.

[Westport]

I'm thinking that everyone just needs to go straight to the MV site and read the regs for themselves:
Not all periods of residence count
If you had a permanent residence permit (PUT) or a residence permit for settlement (UT) when you entered Sweden, you count the duration of stay from your date of arrival. Otherwise, the duration of stay is calculated from the date on which you submitted your application for a residence permit and were approved. If your application was initially rejected and you then submitted a new application, the time is counted from the date on which you received approval.

So... I read this to mean that you must live in Sweden for 3 years, with a PUT, before you can apply for Swedish Citizenship - if you have a Swedish sambo, husband or wife. This save you two years off the regular 5 years residency requirement. It doesn't mean that someone here for two years on a student visa, who then gets a Swedish sambo and PUT at the end of their student visa simply has to have only one year of the PUT before applying for Swedish citizenship.

Best to read up at MV website and call them if you're still not clear.

[gplusa]

Just to clarify the above post, you don't have to wait until you receive a PUT before starting to count your 3 years. Your 3 years start from the date you received permission to live in Sweden as more than a tourist or student. For some people, they will receive a PUT immediately (as I did), other people will receive a UT with their approved application. EU residents receive something else. That's the date you start counting from. The PUT is a requirement for applying for citizenship and you can't apply until you have a non time-restricted permit such as a PUT.

[ahm]

Hi Everyone,I was wondering if anyone could give me some info on the waiting time to apply for citizenship.I am sambo with a Swede and I got my PUT this year, I will be elegib ... (show full quote)

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could give me some info on the waiting time to apply for citizenship.
I am sambo with a Swede and I got my PUT this year, I will be elegible to apply for the citizenship next year; however, I was planning on travelling for 2 1/2 months outside the EU. Will this affect my waiting time to apply for citizenship? I have asked to other friends that have gone through the same process and they say that I can be outside sweden for 6 months without it affecting my time. Before that I had called Migrationsverket and they har told me I could be outside for 2 months but then I called again, just to double check and now they tell me I can only be outside Sweden for 5 weeks. Does anyone has any idea about this?
Thanks ... (hide full quote)

Can anyone answer Cesar question ,please

And i have another question , did the count for Citizenship start from the date u recevied ur siffror (personnummer) or from date of u granted ur resident permit ?

Thanks

[gplusa]

It is from the date you were granted your residency permit. If you were issued a residency permit before you came to Sweden then the time starts from the date you arrived in Sweden.

[ahm]

Thanks

But the precious questions
1 . is count start with the date guy entered SWE or
Will start after registering with skatteverket or
Will start from the date of obatining siffror (personnummer)

Question 2

How Skatteverket knows ur exact entry date to SWE if ur pass dosnt stambed as an entry procedure when u enter airport or they just rely on info. u give to them in skatteverket for the entry date?