The process of applying for Swedish citizenship is quite straightforward, as long you are married or sambo/mambo/särbo/tango with a member of the Royal Family, like me or at I least I saw the queen once, which makes me quite relative to her, I hope 🙂 .

The process according to my excellence is quite straightforward, especially after experiencing the application process for the Czech, Romanian, Transylvanian, Transnistrian, Tongan, Togolese, Tunisian, Tanzanian citizenship or in any other countries or wannabe countries starting with a “T”.

In Sweden you usually apply for the citizenship after 5 years of slavery for any of the soon to be bankrupt companies or after 2 years of 50:50 way of living with a Swedish partner. I do not know what is “50:50 way of living”, I just heard on the news 😀 .

Assessment of the application from the submission date till final decision usually takes 7-9 months.
In my case it took exactly 7 months, because I was nice to Migrationsverket.

In a straight line the process looks like this:
1. You submit the application and a copy of your passport (preferably not a fake one)
2. You wait 7 months
3. After 7 months they will contact you to send the original of your passport (preferably not the fake one)
4. You will get the passport back in max. 1 week
5. In approx. 1-2 weeks you will get the official decision, which could positive, negative or a positive decision with minor corrections like changing your hair colour to blonde, starting wearing red paints, lather jackets etc.

The citizenship confirmation looks like this

After receiving the citizenship, you can easily apply for the Swedish passport, which gives you the privilege to travel to IKEA without a visa.

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