Facts

For further information please contact the Embassy or Consulate near you.

You may also contact:
The Swedish Migration Board
601 70 Norrköping
Sweden
Phone: +46 771 235 235
Fax:      +46 11 23 98 39
> www.migrationsverket.se

In order to read the forms you need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have the programme you may download it, free of charge, from Adobe's website:
> www.adobe.com

Residence permit family re-unification – Afghan citizens

Applications for residence permit must be submitted to FedEx/Gerry’s application centres throughout Pakistan*. You must submit your application personally at FedEx/Gerry’s along with the following documents:

• 2 sets of correctly and fully completed Application Forms
(Form No. 115021 for adults and Form No. 113021 for children under 18);
• Original passport and Tazkira (will be returned);
• 2 copies of 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th pages of the passport and 2 of Tazkira; (in family passports the copies of 5th, 6th and 7th pages of the passport and in new passports copy of the last page is also required).
• Two passport size photographs. The photos must be: full face (facing the camera directly with your eyes looking straight at the camera), colour with a light background, no more than six months old and a good likeness of you, bareheaded, unless you have special religious reasons;
• 2 sets of photocopies of the Marriage Certificate both the original and the translation; (in case of family ties with husband/wife). the marriage must be registered with the authorities
• Your reference person's latest proof of identity (personbevis), and; in case your reference is not a Swedish citizen, his/her first and complete decision of residence permit.

* PKR equivalent to 18 Euro is charged by FedEx/Gerry’s.

Note: The marriage certificate, Tazkira and any other documents in Dari or Pashto, must be translated into English and legalised/attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Afghanistan, Kabul.

You will receive the date and time of your interview after the application is submitted. After the interview has taken place, your application will be forwarded to the Swedish Migration Board for a decision.

Application fee SEK 500 for main applicant, SEK 250 each for children under 18, equivalent to Pakistani Rupees to be paid by Demand Draft (DD/Banker’s Cheque of Habib Bank Limited) favouring “Embassy of Sweden, Islamabad”

The application receiving hours at FedEx/Gerry’s are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon, and for telephone enquiries (Embassy only) 2.00 to 3.00 p.m.

Application forms are available at the Embassy as well as FedEx/Gerry’s application centres free of charge. Forms can also be downloaded from the Embassy's website or can be hand collected from the Consulates in:

Lahore:  Consulate of Sweden, 5, FCC, Gulberg. Phone: 042-5753404-6
Karachi: Consulate of Sweden, 5-6 Chartered Bank Chambers, I.I Chundrigar Road. Phone: 021-2415697
                    
Embassy of Sweden  
P.O. Box 1100   
House 4, Street 5
F-6/3  Islamabad

Phone: 051-2828 712
Fax:     051-2825 284

E-mail: ambassaden.islamabad-visum@foreign.ministry.se

Website: www.swedenabroad.se/Islamabad