The Swedish Migration Agency tightens its assessment of the support requirements for permanent residence permits according to the upper secondary school act. The change comes after a new ruling from the Migration Court. According to the Upper Secondary School Act, you can get a permanent residence permit after studies at upper secondary level if you can support yourself. In the past, the Swedish Migration Agency has assessed that it is sufficient that the livelihood requirements are met when the application is examined. But the Migration Court has made a different assessment. The employment must have started before the temporary residence permit expires, according to a new judgement. “The Migration Court’s new ruling means that the requirements for a permanent residence permit must be met both when applying and when the Migration Agency examines the application,” says the Migration Agency’s legal director Carl Bexelius in a press release. Employment for at least two years The change means that it is no longer possible to get a permanent residence permit if you only have an offer of employment when you apply. Neither is an employment contract that begins after the time-limiting residence permit has expired. In order to meet the law’s requirements for “permanent livelihood”, the Swedish Migration Agency requires that you have a permanent job or a fixed-term job for at least two years. “In practice, this will in future mean that you can be refused if you had an agreement for two years of employment when the temporary residence permit expired, but at the time of the examination there are less than two years of employment remaining,” writes the authority. The new requirements apply immediately and also affect those who submitted their application before the court announced its judgment. More about the stricter requirements in the clip above.
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The Swedish Migration Agency tightens the requirements for permanent residence permits
