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2 months ago
last spring I lived in Sweden for 5 months while I was studying abroad. I love the country side there
How to live in Sweden
It made me
accepted 
"It is nice to be considered an official citizen of Sweden, now to find a job!"
How I did it: I filled out the necessary forms, submitted the required documents, and the Swedish Migration Board did the rest. I applied for my residence permit on the 1st of October, and today it arrived in the post, so it took just under a month! Pretty cool.
Lessons & tips: Be patient, it's a bureaucracy getting the official papers, but once it is done, it feels good. Find out the relevant information you will need BEFORE moving to a country, there was a lot of forward planning before I moved here, and I knew exactly what forms I needed to fill in and what I had to take with me. It just makes the process go ore smoothly.
Resources: The Swedish Migration Board
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Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
I have a personnumer now
12 months ago
Which is one step forward, but I still need my residence permit to properly be considered an honorary Swede :)
I had hoped to be able to start my language course with the government run SFI class now I had my identity number but alas, you need the residency. Pity, I’ll just have to wait.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
Applied for residency today
13 months ago
Everything was pretty straightforward, not sure how long we have to wait now, and I still don’t know whether I also have to apply for a work permit. But, it’s a step in the right direction, yay!
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
I am currently living in Sweden...
13 months ago
...but have only just got here. I want to tick this goal off once it is official, once I have residency. We are going to the migration board next week (we’re waiting on a form of Erik’s, at the moment), and that should make things clearer. I’m not really looking forward to all the legal stuff, but it’s a step that has to be taken.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
Only 3 weeks!
14 months ago
I’m getting panicky now, there’s so much to do!! I have lots of packing to get done, and lots of legal/financial/health fidgy-widginess to sort out, too. Here’s hoping I get it all done.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
If I could have...
20 months ago
...I would already have moved there. But the sensible thing to do is wait until September, when I will have saved up a fair amount of money (even more now that I’m full time). It’s a better situation, but the heart is not very sensible, is it? :) I will have to content myself with the knowledge I’ll be visiting again in May, and that’s not too far away, really.
I wish
22 months ago
I am european man 59 yaers old, i wavt to live in sweden. but I have no idee about the laws how i get the wright to stay and to get swidish citezenship. plaese tell
thank
