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Family members
Exemptions: If you are a performing artist or are applying based on special agreements for citizens of Australia, New Zealand and Canada, your family members cannot accompany you.
If you are a family member of a EU citizen, special rules apply, see page EU citizens and their families.
Employees, athletes
Your family may be granted residence permits for the same period that you were granted residence and work permits for. If the employment is to be for more than six months, family members may also be granted work permits.
Family members include:
- your husband/wife, common law spouse or registered partner
- your or your partner's children who are under 21.
If you have children who are 21 or older they must be dependent on you or your partner for support in order to be granted a residence permit.
If you plan to work in Sweden and apply on-line and your family is to accompany you, you apply together using the same on-line application.
If you do not apply on-line, your family members apply using the form Application for permit for family members of employees/visiting researchers/athletes/au pairs/self-employed persons, no. 133011.
They submit the form to the Swedish embassy or the Swedish consulate in the country in which they are living.
Application fee
Most people have to pay an application fee; see page on fees.
Visiting researchers
Your family may be granted residence permits for the same period that you were granted residence permit for. If the employment is to be for more than six months, family members may also be granted work permits.
Family members include:
- your husband/wife, common law spouse or registered partner
- your or your partner's children who are under 18.
If you have children who are 18 or older they must be dependent on you or your partner for support in order to be granted a residence permit.
If you plan to work in Sweden and apply on-line and your family is to accompany you, you apply together using the same on-line application.
If you do not apply on-line, your family members apply using the form Application for permit for family members of employees/visiting researchers/athletes/au pairs/self-employed persons, no. 133011.
They submit the form to the Swedish embassy or the Swedish consulate in the country in which they are living.
Application fee
Most people have to pay an application fee; see page on fees.
Self-employed
Permits for family members
Your family may be granted residence permits for the same period as you.
Family members include:
- your husband/wife, common law spouse or registered partner
- your or your partner's children who are under 18.
If you have children who are 18 or older they must be dependent on you or your partner for support in order to be granted a residence permit.
Among other conditions, they must be able to show that their support is secured. They cannot be granted a work permit solely on their association with you.
When your family applies for residence permits, they must use the form Application for permit for family members of employees/visiting researchers/athletes/au pairs/self-employed persons, no. 133011.
Application fee
Most people have to pay an application fee; see page on fees.
Asylum seekers
If you have been an asylum seeker and have received a decision of refused entry that has come into force, you can apply for a work permit when you are in Sweden if you do this no later than two weeks after the decision has come into force. Your family members may also apply for residence permits.
Family members include:
- your husband/wife, common law spouse or registered partner
- your or your partner's children who are under 18.
If you have children who are 18 or older they must be dependent on you or your partner for support in order to be granted a residence permit.
If you apply on-line for a work permit and your family is also in Sweden, you apply together using the same on-line application.
If your family members are outside Sweden, they must apply for residence permits at a Swedish embassy or Swedish consulate in the country they are living in.
They must apply using the form Application for permit for family members of employees/visiting researchers/athletes/au pairs/self-employed persons, no. 133011.
If you apply using a paper copy and your family is in Sweden, they are to apply using the same form. They must then submit or send the form to the Swedish Migration Board.
Application fee
Most people have to pay an application fee; see page on fees.
