Adults who want to live with another relative
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Vuxen som vill bo med annan släkting as of 2025-02-24[2] Page name on Migrationsverket's Swedish site. |
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| Official name (English) | Adults who want to live with another relative as of 2025-02-25[1] Page name on Migrationsverket's English site. |
| Legal basis | Utlanningslag (2005:716) 5 kap. 3 a § forsta stycket 2 (Lag 2026:1142) as of 2026-08-22[3][5] Facultative and tightly drawn: a permit MAY be given to 'en utlanning som pa nagot annat satt an som avses i 3 § eller i denna paragraf ar nara anhorig till nagon som ar bosatt eller som har beviljats uppehallstillstand for bosattning i Sverige … om han eller hon har ingatt i samma hushall som den personen och det finns ett sarskilt beroendeforhallande mellan slaktingarna som fanns redan i hemlandet.' Both conditions – a shared household and a dependency that already existed in the country of origin – must hold. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-22[5] |
Who can apply
| Criminal-record condition | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
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Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 2 years as of 2026-08-22[1][5] 5 kap. 3 g § andra stycket. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-22[5] |
| Renewal duration | 2 years as of 2026-08-22[5] |
| Work rights | full as of 2025-02-25[1] The page carries a 'Can I work or study with this permit?' section; permits on ties carry both rights. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-08-22[5] Utlanningslag 5 kap. 3 g § fjarde stycket (Lag 2026:1142): a permanent permit may be granted when the current permit expires if the holder has had a time-limited permit for at least three years and the conditions in 3 § or 3 a § and the special requirements in 5 kap. 7 § – self-support and no doubt as to expected vandel – are met. The fifth paragraph shuts this off where the sponsor holds a time-limited permit under 2 b § or 6 § or 12 kap. 18 §, or refugee or subsidiary-protection status. |
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| Years to permanent residence on this route | 3 as of 2026-08-22[5] |
Requirements
| Who can sponsor | citizen, permanent resident, temporary permit holder as of 2026-08-22[1][5] Migrationsverket puts a further timing condition on top of the statute: the application must be made as soon as possible after the relative has moved to Sweden and been granted a PERMANENT residence permit, and a permit cannot be granted if the application comes too late or if the dependency developed after the relative moved. |
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| Eligible relations | parent, grandparent, adult dependent child, sibling, other dependent as of 2026-08-22[1][5] |
| Sponsor income requirement | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value[1][4][5] |
| Sponsor accommodation requirement | Yes as of 2026-08-22[1][5] 5 kap. 3 b §. |
| Pre-entry language test | No as of 2026-08-22[5] None. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 5 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 5 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2025-02-24 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-22 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-22 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Adults who want to live with another relative
Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2025-02-25 · Accessed 2026-08-22 - [2] Bo med partner, barn eller annan slakting (Swedish-language hub)
Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2025-02-24 · Accessed 2026-08-22 - [3] SFSR amendment register for Utlanningslag (2005:716)
Regeringskansliet · gazette · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-22 - [4] Utlanningsforordning (2006:97), consolidated text
Sveriges riksdag · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-22 - [5] Utlanningslag (2005:716), consolidated text, amended up to and including SFS 2026:1451
Sveriges riksdag / Regeringskansliet · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-22