Application for a Work Permit – Afghanistan

You can submit your application through internet. Please visit the Swedish Migration Board's website for
further details.

To submit application at the Embassy you must submit your application personally.

Please bring the following documents:

• 2 sets of correctly and fully completed Application Forms (Form No.103031);
  
  
• Fee deposit slip;
  
  
• Original passport and identity card (will be returned);
  
  
• 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 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 the new passports copy of the last page is also required)
  
  
• You must have a written offer of work in Sweden. Information about registration of offer of employment is found on the website of:
  > the Swedish employment office
  
  
• Your employer shall guarantee you pay, insurance coverage and other terms of employment equal to at least the collective agreement or Swedish practise in the profession or the branch of trade;
  
  
• Accommodation must have been arranged for you in Sweden;
  
  
• You must be fully prepared to leave Sweden when your term of employment is over.

Note: The applicant must bring all documents to the Embassy with the application. The Embassy
does not accept documents being mailed, faxed or emailed to the Embassy.

You will receive the date and time of your interview after the application is submitted. Waiting time for interview is
approximately 2 – 4 weeks. Your application will be forwarded after the interview has taken place, to the Swedish Migration Board for a decision.

Before you present your application you must deposit a non-refundable work permit application fee equivalent to
SEK 1.000, in Pak Rupees into the
Embassy's CD account
No: 2799-92 at
Habib Bank Ltd
Super Market
School Road
Branch, F-6 Markaz
Islamabad

Bank deposit slips are available at the Embassy.

The visa section is open for visits
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon, and for telephone enquiries 2.00 to 3.00 p.m.
Passport collection time is 4:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Visits and calls at other times will NOT be accepted.

Application forms are available at the Embassy free of charge. Forms can also be downloaded from the Embassy's website or can be collected at the Consulates in:

Lahore
Consulate of Sweden
5, FCC, Gulberg
Phone: 042-5753404-6

Karachi
Consulate of Sweden
5-6 Chartered Bank Chambers
1.1 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: 051-2825284
E-mail: ambassaden.islamabad-visum@foreign.ministry.se


May 2007