My wife is Swedish, we have been living in Sweden and will

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In that case, your wife may be able to apply for a spouse visa. This visa category is used by married couples who want to live together in the UK when one is a British national and another is from a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

This type of UK visa allows the non-EEA spouse to enter the UK as the partner of a British or settled person. It lasts for up 33 months and can be extended and used as a qualifying time for permanent settled status. You need to meet certain requirements to be eligible for a Spouse Visa for the UK. These include passing the ‘genuine relationship test’ and meeting financial requirements.

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Your partner can apply for a family visa to come and live with you if they’re either:

• your husband, wife, civil partner, proposed civil partner or fiancé(e)

• your partner who you’ve lived with for at least 2 years

They can only apply for a family visa if you have one of the following:

• British citizenship

• Irish citizenship - you must be living or have lived in the UK

• indefinite leave to remain or right of abode

• refugee status or humanitarian protection

• settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme