Application for a work permit

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

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

• 2 sets of duly completed Application Forms (Form No. 149011);
  
  
• Fee deposit slip - original;
  
  
• Original passport and national identity card;
  
  
• 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 first two pages of the passport and 2 of national identity card;
  
  
• A written offer of employment in Sweden, with a photo copy – The scope of the work is such that the monthly wage is at least SEK 13,000 before tax

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

Before you present your application you must deposit a non-refundable work permit application fee equivalent to SEK 2000, in Pak Rupees into the Embassy's 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