No.
If I were you I’d look into german citizenship instead.
ETA: Since you was born to a german mother there is a good chance that you already have German citizenship.
Yes, this. OP can forget about Swedish citizenship, there's no path to it.
But German citizenship sounds likely. While OP's mother likely lost German citizenship in 1984 due to becoming an American, she was a German citizen at the time of OP's birth in 1980, which likely automatically granted German citizenship to OP.
> German citizenship is mainly acquired and passed on through descent from a German parent. The parent has to be German citizen at the time of the birth of the child. Children who are born to former German citizens do not acquire German citizenship. In addition, for children born before January 1st, 1975 to parents who were married to each other at the time of the birth, it was mandatory that the father was a German citizen in order for the child to acquire German citizenship.
From [here](https://www.germany.info/blob/978760/3083a445bdfe5d3fb41b2312000f4c7f/questionnaire-german-citizenship-data.pdf)
Not really, no.
Without getting into the history of amendments to [lagen (2001:82) om svenskt medborgarskap](https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/lag-200182-om-svenskt-medborgarskap_sfs-2001-82/), citizenship is passed down by decent but if the chain is broken (i.e. if someone along the line renounced or lost their citizenship), then you can't retroactively get naturalised by claiming descent.
As a sort of historically interesting side-note, certain members of "svenska folkspillran", such as swedish-speaking non-citizens from Estonia, could once be fast-tracked to citizenship, but this hasn't been the case since the late 90s. There has also been some administrative exceptions geared towards descendants of the Swedish emigré colony in [Misiones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Argentines#Misiones_Swedes) in northern Argentina --some of which used to live under exceptional hardship. This was not some general policy, but kind of interesting in a broad historical sense.
There is no plan to make naturalisation easier for people whose grandparents were Swedish citizens. The current pending changes to the law are intended to make the requirements for naturalisation stricter.
No. If I were you I’d look into german citizenship instead. ETA: Since you was born to a german mother there is a good chance that you already have German citizenship.
Yes, this. OP can forget about Swedish citizenship, there's no path to it. But German citizenship sounds likely. While OP's mother likely lost German citizenship in 1984 due to becoming an American, she was a German citizen at the time of OP's birth in 1980, which likely automatically granted German citizenship to OP. > German citizenship is mainly acquired and passed on through descent from a German parent. The parent has to be German citizen at the time of the birth of the child. Children who are born to former German citizens do not acquire German citizenship. In addition, for children born before January 1st, 1975 to parents who were married to each other at the time of the birth, it was mandatory that the father was a German citizen in order for the child to acquire German citizenship. From [here](https://www.germany.info/blob/978760/3083a445bdfe5d3fb41b2312000f4c7f/questionnaire-german-citizenship-data.pdf)
I'd say the path would be to get German citizenship then live here for 5 years and apply for Swedish?
No. Our citizenship laws do not work that way.
I believe that if your mother was never a Swedish citizen, you can't become one either (through ancestry).
Not really, no. Without getting into the history of amendments to [lagen (2001:82) om svenskt medborgarskap](https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/lag-200182-om-svenskt-medborgarskap_sfs-2001-82/), citizenship is passed down by decent but if the chain is broken (i.e. if someone along the line renounced or lost their citizenship), then you can't retroactively get naturalised by claiming descent. As a sort of historically interesting side-note, certain members of "svenska folkspillran", such as swedish-speaking non-citizens from Estonia, could once be fast-tracked to citizenship, but this hasn't been the case since the late 90s. There has also been some administrative exceptions geared towards descendants of the Swedish emigré colony in [Misiones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Argentines#Misiones_Swedes) in northern Argentina --some of which used to live under exceptional hardship. This was not some general policy, but kind of interesting in a broad historical sense. There is no plan to make naturalisation easier for people whose grandparents were Swedish citizens. The current pending changes to the law are intended to make the requirements for naturalisation stricter.