How to apply for a Residence Rermit to live in Sweden

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This is how we do it:

1. Check if you have a valid passport and the validity period of it must be at least 2 years valid otherwise you’ll need to renew it or acquired a new passport from DFA. You need also to photocopy your old passport and all the pages with entry and exit stamps from your previous trip. (kahit na hindi pa expired yung passport nyo bsta dapat atleast 2 years pa na valid sya, yung passport ko 2 months nalng bago maexpired kaya NAGRENEW NA AKO)

2. Your partner must acquire a passport copy, valid Id’s and birth certificate (personbevis) from Swedish Tax Authority (skatteverket).

3. Applicant (YOU) must acquire documents from NSO (if you are already married CENOMAR is not needed).

• Birth certificate
• Certificate of No Marriage (CENOMAR)
• Marriage Certificate in NSO paper (if you already have it)
• Vigselbevis(Marriage Certificate in Sweden)translated in English version and legalized. 
• Report of Marriage in the Embassy

After 3 months of waiting (we got a email response from immigration saying we can now contact the Consulate of Sweden in Manila to book for my interview 🙂 (We decide to have my interview – August 18 because I know by that time I already have all the original copy of the all the documents from him / all the scanned document we’ve sent online(HARD COPY) [see email response- picture below]

*NOTE: You can call or email the consulate in manila to book for a date, only if you know that you can acquire all the original documents in time before your planned date of interview.

[SA ARAW NG INTERVIEW MO NEED MO DALAHIN LAHAT YUNG DOCUMENTS NA PINASA MO ONLINE AT YUNG PRINT-OUT ONLINE FORM MO NA SINAGUTAN MO NUNG NAG APPLY KA ONLINE (HARD COPY/ORIGINAL COPY PLUS i-PHOTOCOPY LAHAT (zerox copy) NANG MGA DOCUMENTS MO) HINDI NILA KUKUNIN YUNG MGA ORIGINAL DAHIL SA IYO YON, SILA ANG MAG AAYOS NUNG PAPELES MO KAYA MAIIWAN ANG ORIGINAL SAYO.]

6. The Interview will be held at the Swedish Consulate in Manila. Be on time po. If you know each other well you don’t have to be nervous. You will be asked these type of questions: About you and your partners families, where they live, name of her parents, if they have pets, characteristics of your partners home in Sweden, where he/she is working etc. A lot of time at the interview will be spent how and when you first met. It necessary also to show some pictures you are together as a proof. It’s like you just reminiscing your whole love story 😂.

If you have any typographical error on your application form (which is usually do happens sometimes) inform them immediately and tell them the reason why. Don’t lie. If you don’t know the answer of a question it is better to give a good explanation why this is unknown to you.

7. The consulate will write down a document describing your answer an they will let you check and read it before they will send it to the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok. They will process your application further and make your application available for the Migration Board in Sweden. This can take up to a month.

8. After a couple of days your partner can now try to contact the Migration Board to check the status of your application.

9. Sometimes your partner will be called to an interview. If this is the case, there is something in your or your partners background or in the answers that you gave at the interview or in the questionnaire that the Migration Board want to examine further.

10.If you have done a good job with all the documents you might get a fast decision. Just like me! 😉. But it is more common that you will have to wait a couple of months. (But in my case only takes weeks, Sept 1) I got a mail from the consulate saying they granted my residence permit! I’m just so so so Happy!

11. The decision of the residence permit is sent to the person in Sweden. The Migration Board in Sweden will also email the decision to the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok who in turn will email the decision to the Swedish Consulate in Manila and they will contact you by e-mail. The letter from the Migration Board with the decision of the residence permit should be saved. My husband got my beslut (decision) and he send it to me through DHL express 🙂

12. When you know that your residence permit has been granted (don’t wait for the e-mail from the consulate) You can go to Bangkok Thailand without any appointment needed. The embassy is open Mon-Tue-Friday 8:30 to 12:00 noon. No embassy on WEDNESDAY. I went to Swedish Embassy in Bangkok Sept 12 for my biometric and it takes only 5-10 minutes 🙂 so easy! just show them your passport and the decision letter and whoo-la, they take you a pictures, finger prints and signature.

13. It will take a couple of weeks before your Residence Permit Card has been produced in Sweden and sent through the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok to the Swedish Consulate in Manila. You can get the Residence Permit Card in two different ways:

• By using courier service as describe by the consulate. You have to pay the amount of 300 Php and deposit it to their BDO account. You need to email them the scanned copy of validated deposit slip as proof of your payment.
• By visiting the consulate in Manila to personally pick it up.