When do the Swedish citizenship test results arrive? End of October, no date yet

Since 15 August one question has dominated: when does the result arrive? UHR has narrowed it from “during the autumn” to the end of October, and no further. Here is what is confirmed about the results, where they appear, and what applies if you fail.

Updated 1 October 2026: UHR’s page says “i slutet av oktober”, the end of October, not just “in October” as we quoted before. UHR’s report to the government on 30 September points to the second half of October.

Bli Svensk is independent study material. For official information about the test, always go to uhr.se/medborgarskapsprovet. For citizenship applications, see migrationsverket.se.

What UHR has actually said

On UHR’s questions-and-answers page:

“Resultatet publiceras i slutet av oktober. Information om vilket datum resultatet publiceras kommer.”

(The result will be published at the end of October. Information about which date the result is published is coming.)

That is the whole statement on the page: the end of October, but no day. The page was last updated on 26 August.

UHR’s final report to the government on 30 September says the same in other words: the final decision and results “beräknas kunna fastställas i andra halvan av oktober”, are expected to be set in the second half of October. According to the report, 875 people sat the test, and the University of Gothenburg is currently analysing and standard-setting the answers.

If you see an exact result date anywhere else, it did not come from UHR.

Where the result appears

Your result arrives in your account at medborgarskapsprovet.uhr.se, the same portal you registered in back in June. It is also reported on to Migrationsverket automatically.

That second part is worth pausing on, because it saves people an unnecessary step: you do not send a test certificate to Migrationsverket yourself. The transfer happens between the agencies. You also do not need to call either of them to check, and a phone call will not make the result arrive sooner.

Alli Klapp, head of the department of education and special education at the University of Gothenburg, described the chain in Universitetsläraren on 21 September 2026: “Rättningen sker automatiskt och resultatet beräknas vara färdigt under oktober och skickas då från UHR till Migrationsverket”: marking is automatic, the result is expected to be ready during October, and it is then sent from UHR to Migrationsverket.

So the marking itself is machine-scored. Counting correct answers is not what takes the time.

One more thing that is easy to miss: the result reaching Migrationsverket is not the same as your case being decided. Marvin Hansson, press communicator at Migrationsverket, in the same article: “Hur lång tid hanteringen av ett ärende tar beror på om det behövs ytterligare utredning och hur belastningen på våra handläggare ser ut just då”, meaning how long a case takes depends on whether further investigation is needed and on the caseload at the time. Treat the result as a step in your case, not the end of it.

Why it takes until October

Two months feels long for a multiple-choice test that is machine-marked, and the explanation lies in what the August sitting was: an utprövningsprov, a trial sitting. The questions were used in earnest for the first time, and how difficult they actually proved to be is unknown until the answers have been analysed.

A test whose question difficulty is known in advance can be marked against an existing threshold. A test where that is not known cannot, and this is plausibly the same work that is holding up both the results and the pass mark. UHR’s report says only that the University of Gothenburg is analysing and standard-setting the answers, so beyond that we do not know either.

The pass mark is still secret

The most common follow-up question, and the answer is the same as it was before the test: nobody outside UHR knows.

You will find sites quoting 70 per cent, 80 per cent, or 42 out of 60. None of those figures is confirmed by UHR, and none of those sites says where it got them. Our own app uses a placeholder threshold, for the simple reason that some threshold is needed to display a practice result at all, and we say plainly that it is a placeholder. Treat any site stating an exact pass mark without a source as unreliable, however official it looks.

What is happening to your case meanwhile

Here is a detail that is easy to miss. On 18 August, Migrationsverket published a note titled Statistiken för medborgarskap ska tolkas med försiktighet, meaning citizenship statistics should be interpreted with caution.

The point is that the current numbers give a misleading picture. While test results are pending, the decisions actually being issued are largely refusals, cases that fail on grounds other than the knowledge requirement, while cases waiting on a test result sit still. If you see figures on granted and refused citizenships over the coming weeks, keep that in mind before drawing conclusions about how the new law is “working out”.

For you, waiting, it means something simpler: silence from Migrationsverket says nothing about your case.

If you fail

UHR’s wording is cautious, and worth reading literally:

“Om du får ett underkänt resultat kan du få möjlighet att visa kunskaper på nytt. Kontakta Migrationsverket för att få information om vad som gäller för dig.”

(If you receive a failing result you may be given the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge again. Contact Migrationsverket for information about what applies to you.)

Note may. That is how UHR words it on its own website, and that is still what it says there.

In Universitetsläraren on 21 September 2026, UHR went further. Andreas Sandberg, head of unit at UHR, said: “Är du inte godkänd kommer det den här gången bli möjligt att göra ett omprov”, meaning that if you have not passed, it will be possible this time to take a retake. So a retake is confirmed for the August sitting, though neither date nor format is decided. For future sittings, Migrationsverket says the opposite: no decisions on retakes exist at all.

The distinction matters enough that we have given it its own page: Can you retake the Swedish citizenship test?

Worth remembering: the knowledge requirement can be met by routes other than the test, grades among them. See Can grades replace the Swedish citizenship test?.

What to do while you wait

If you sat the test: nothing. That is the unusual but honest answer. The result comes to your account and goes on to Migrationsverket by itself.

If you did not sit the test: do not wait for October to start revising. The next sitting has no date, the registration window in June was short, and anyone starting only when a date appears will not get far. Our guide to what the test covers and our sample questions both work from UHR’s own material.

We monitor UHR’s pages daily and will update this page the day the result date is published.

Further reading

• The next Swedish citizenship test: what’s confirmed and what isn’t
• The Swedish citizenship test fee is confirmed: 2,000 SEK from 2027
• Swedish citizenship test 2026: everything you need to know
• Swedish citizenship 2026: all the new requirements
• (Official) uhr.se/medborgarskapsprovet · medborgarskapsprovet.uhr.se · migrationsverket.se