The Swedish citizenship test in 2026: how it works, and what is still open

The legislative record

The bill, Skärpta krav för svenskt medborgarskap (prop. 2025/26:175), went to the Riksdag on 13 March 2026 from Migration Minister Johan Forssell, on the back of a 2025 inquiry and the 2021 inquiry into knowledge tests. The Committee on Social Insurance backed it on 28 April; the chamber debated and voted on 29 April 2026, 258 to 33 with 58 absent, against reservations from the Left Party and the Greens. Most of the law entered into force on 6 June 2026; the provisions on the language test in reading and listening take effect on 1 October 2027 or an earlier date the government sets.

What is fixed

From Migrationsverket, the Riksdag and what UHR has published:

• Knowledge of Swedish and of Swedish society is required for citizenship by application, for applicants aged 16 to 66, shown by grades, SFI course D, komvux, folkhögskola or the citizenship test.
• UHR builds, runs and marks the test; Migrationsverket decides who is offered it and sends the letter that lets you register.
• The civics part: 60 multiple-choice questions with four options, one correct, 90 minutes, in Swedish, on paper at the first sitting, based on Sverige i fokus.
• First sitting: Saturday 15 August 2026 at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, about 1,000 participants, free of charge.
• Fee from 2027: 2,000 kronor per sitting, set by the regulation on the citizenship test (förordning 2026:451), with stateless people who have refugee status or a Swedish travel document exempt.
• The language part, reading and listening at a functional level, by 1 October 2027 at the latest.
• No transitional rules: applications undecided on 6 June 2026 are assessed under the new law.

What is not yet published

The pass mark, above all. UHR said before the first sitting that the level would be set, evaluated and adjusted, and after it that it would analyse the results and present a recommendation for the pass score during the autumn; results for the August candidates were due in the autumn too. Next come the dates and places of further sittings and the reopening of registration, which UHR's registration page said would be announced later.

Several prep sites fill the gap with figures of their own: a pass mark of 70% or 75%, monthly sittings, a digital test. None of that is published. The app uses 72% for its mock and labels it preliminary in the app, on this site and in the store listing, so that it can be replaced the week UHR publishes the real level.

How the first sitting went

SVT spoke to candidates leaving Stockholmsmässan: some found the questions a little tricky, others found them easy, and UHR described the level as roughly that of the end of compulsory school. Registration had filled and closed, with no late registration. Candidates were told results would follow in the autumn. For anyone preparing for a later sitting, the useful facts are the format, the language and the material, all of which are known.

What to watch, and where

UHR's pages on medborgarskapsprovet carry the format, the registration rules and, when they come, the pass level and the dates. Migrationsverket's pages carry the requirement and the exemptions, and it is Migrationsverket's letter that starts the process for you. The Riksdag's documents hold the law itself. Prep sites, this one included, are not the specification.