Residence Permits for Studies in Sweden

You must submit your application personally at FedEx/Gerry’s along with the following documents:

• 2 sets of duly completed Application Forms (Form No. 105031 for main applicant and 135011 for co-applicants);
  
  
• Fee deposit slip - original;
  
  
• 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;
  
  
• Original passport and national identity card;
  
  
• 2 copies of first two pages of the passport and 2 of national identity card;
  
  
• Acceptance/admission letter from University/College in Sweden - two copies, (the planned study should be full time – minimum 30 points);
  
  
• Certificate of leave of absence/educational leave (where relevant) - original with a photo-copy;
  
  
• 2 copies of your own bank statement (both the originals) with a covering letter from the bank showing that you have enough money to support yourself throughout the entire planned study period. (Proof that you can support yourself must be provided, e g in the form of some kind of documentation certifying your own bank assets, documentation certifying that you have received a scholarship or in some other similar manner). You are required to show that you will have SEK 7,300 per month at your disposal for 10 months/year; for a co-applicant the required amount will be SEK 3,500 per month and for each accompanying child you will need to show an amount of SEK 2,100 per month for 12 months/year;
  
  
• 2 copies of Health Insurance Policy - students applying for residence permit for less than one year, i.e. one or two semesters, need a health insurance covering costs up to 30,000 EURO for urgent and other kinds of health care, hospitalization and costs for trips back home for medical reasons.

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

Before you present your application you must deposit a non-refundable Residence Permit application fee of SEK 1,000 for main applicant, SEK 1,000 for co-applicant (spouse) and SEK 500 for each accompanying child, equivalent to Pakistani Rupees into the Embassy's bank account
No: 13530027999203
at Habib Bank Limited, Super Market,
School Road Branch, F-6 Markaz, Islamabad
or at HBL’s any on-line branch in Pakistan.

The application receiving hours at FedEx/Gerry’s are from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., Passport collection hours are between 2.00 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Telephone enquiries to the Embassy are restricted to: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Application forms are available at 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