Extending a residence permit under the temporary law

If you want to stay in Sweden because you require protection, you must state if you have the same reasons as before or if you have new reasons that you have not told us about.

If you have the same reasons for needing protection as before, you do not need to tell us about them again. The Swedish Migration Agency is aware of the reasons you gave before.

New reasons for protection may be, for example, that something happened after you applied for asylum, something that you have not told the Swedish Migration Agency or the court. If you say that you have new reasons, we will contact you to find out more about why you need protection.

Read about who can be granted asylum in Sweden

If you can financially support yourself as an employee or self-employed person, you may be granted a permanent residence permit. In order to do so you must meet all of the requirements. If you do not meet all of the requirements, you may be granted a residence permit extension for other reasons that you provide in your application.

You must send in

• Uppgifter om försörjning (Information on financial support), form number 202011 (in Swedish)

If you are employed, you must also send in your employment contract. It says on the form what other appendices you may need to send in.

Read what is required to be granted a permanent residence permit because you can financially support yourself as an employee

Read what is required to be granted a permanent residence permit because you can financially support yourself as a self-employed person

When the whole family has to apply for extended residence permits, you need to send the applications to the Swedish Migration Agency. If log-on information has been sent to you at home, you can apply online, but if you are going to send in your applications by post, you use this form:

Application for extension of residence permi (in Swedish)

If you have a residence permit because you are the spouse or cohabiting partner[IA1] of a person with a temporary residence permit under the temporary law, you can [IA2] be granted an extension of your residence permit if you are still living together. When we process your application, we will check that you are registered at the same address.

So you must send in the appendix

• Assurance of cohabitation, form number 243011B

You have to complete the form together and you both have to sign it.

You do not need to send in this form for children under the age of 18.

You can also apply for an extension of your residence permit because you have a new family relationship. This applies to you both if you have had a residence permit in Sweden up to now because you have grounds for protection and if you have had a residence permit in Sweden up to now on grounds of family ties with a person in Sweden.

A new family relationship means that you have met someone that you plan to marry or to live with as your cohabiting partner in Sweden. The Swedish Migration Agency therefore needs to know more about that person and about your relationship, and this is why you have to send in these appendices:

• A copy of the pages in your passport that show your identity and the passport’s period of validity
• Frågeformulär om nyetablerade förhållanden (förlängning) (Questionnaire on newly established relationships (extension)), form number T78 (in Swedish)

It is the person you want to live with who must complete the questionnaire.

Read more about what is required to be granted a residence permit as a family member

(Note that you may not use any of the online applications that are on the pages under the heading “Moving to someone in Sweden”.)

If you are applying by post: One application per family member

If you want extended residence permits for the whole of your family and are going to send in your application by post, fill in separate application forms for each member of the family –including the children.

Example:

The Aziz family consists of the mother, the father and three children, and they are going to apply for extended residence permits in Sweden. The family has the same grounds for protection as before.

The family does not have log-on codes, so it cannot apply through the Swedish Migration Agency’s website. Instead, the family is going to submit its applications by sending them by post to the Swedish Migration Agency.

Here is what the family has to do.

• Print out five copies of form 200011, one for each family member. And fill them in.
• Mother Aziz fills in the appendix Assurance of cohabitation, form number 242011B. Both Mother and Father Aziz sign it.
• Mother Aziz puts all the family members’ forms and the appendix in an envelope and sends it to one of the Swedish Migration Agency’s offices. The addresses are given on the Swedish Migration Agency’s website and on the form itself.

If you have a residence permit for studies at upper secondary level, you can apply for an extension of your residence permit. This applies to you if you have a longer residence permit because you are studying at upper secondary level at the same time that you have other reasons, or if you have a 13-month long residence permit to study at an introductory programme. This also applies to you if you have a residence permit according to Section 16 f of the temporary law (the so-called new Upper Secondary School Act).

If you have a permit according to the so-called new Upper Secondary School Act, you have to show that you have begun your studies before your current permit expires in order to apply for an extension of your residence permit for studies at upper secondary level. In the application, you must mark that you want to apply for an extension of your residence permit because you are studying at upper secondary level.

If you also have other reasons for a residence permit, and received a longer permit because you are studying at the upper secondary level, you can apply for an extension if you do not have time to complete your education. You can state several reasons at the same time.

If you do not have a residence permit for studies at upper secondary level, but have begun studying during your time in Sweden you can also choose this alternative when you apply for an extension of your residence permit. You may then have the right to a longer residence permit so that you will have the possibility to complete your education. You can state both requiring protection and upper secondary studies as reasons for why you want to stay in Sweden.

If you apply for a residence permit on the grounds of studies at upper secondary level, you must send in appendices that show that you are studying. You get these documents from your school.

You must send in

• an individual study plan, or
• programme planning documents from municipal adult education (Komvux) or a folk high school

Once you finish your studies, you may have the right to a residence permit for up to six months after completing the education in order to seek employment. In order to get this, you must send in documents from your school that show that you have finished, or will finish, your education.

Read what is required to be granted a residence permit on the upper secondary level

In exceptional cases, asylum seekers may be granted a residence permit although they do not need protection from persecution. This requires extraordinary circumstances, which means that a decision to deny a residence permit would conflict with Sweden’s international commitments. This may, for example, involve people with particularly serious health conditions. 

If you apply for a residence permit on the basis of your health, you must send in 

• Doctor’s certificate, form number 244011 (in Swedish)