Residence Permit

If you are admitted to doctoral studies in Sweden, you can apply for a residence permit for higher education.

Residence permit for doctoral studies

Extend your Residence Permit

If you are still admitted to doctoral studies, you can apply for an extension of your residence permit for higher education.

Extend a residence permit for doctoral studies

Permanent Residence Permit as a Doctoral student

If you have lived in Sweden with a residence permit for doctoral studies for a total of four years in the past seven years, you can receive a permanent residence permit.

Permanent residence permits for doctoral students

Residence permit Family Member of Doctoral student

If the entire family applies at the same time, you can apply together in the same online application.

If the person who received a residence permit for doctoral studies is already in Sweden, you as a family member can submit your own online application afterwards.

Permits for family members