Resident Permit Requirements

• 2 sets of correctly and fully completed Application Forms (Form No. 115021 for adults and Form No. 113021 for children under 18). Note that the application form should be fully filled out before arrival at the embassy.
  
  
• Family appendix for applicants: Appendix D can be used if the space in the Application Form is not sufficient.
  
  
• Your reference person's first and complete decision of permanent residence permit in Sweden. If the decision is classified: A3, A7, AK, A5, A6, A8, A9, G, P1, P3, P4 or P5 some family members are not required to pay the application fee for residence permit. Please see Exemption from Application Fee for more information.
  
  
• Original valid passport and identity card (will be returned).
  
  
• 2 copies of first two pages of the passport as wells as the passport information pages and 2 copies of national identity card.
  
  
• 2 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.
  - no hand-touch or otherwise processed pictures will be accepted.
  
  
• 2 sets of photocopies of the Marriage Certificate both original and an English translation. In case of family ties with husband/wife the marriage must be registered with the authorities.
  
  
• Birth certificate of children applying as well as parents consent. For more information on consent for Somali children see Migration Supreme Court Rulings Concerning Somali Children Applying Without Legal Guardians.
  
  
• Proof of identity ("Personbevis") of the Reference Person in Sweden not more than 2 months old from the date of issuance. The proof of identity should be in the form of a "Familjebevis".
  > Skatteverket (National Tax Board) – Personbevis

 
Application fees
The applicant must pay the application fee the day the application is submitted. The fee is paid at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia after the Consular Officer issued the Embassy's deposit slip with the right amount.

Application fee in connection with family ties
The application fee for adults is 500 SEK in local currency.
The application fee for minors (under 18) is 250 SEK in local currency.

Provisional alien's passport
The application fee for a Provisional alien's passport is 500 SEK in local currency. The Swedish Migration Board is able to grant the applicant an alien's passport if the applicant is unable to obtain a passport from his/her country of origin or another document which is valid as a passport.

For application fees for other types of resident permits please refer to the Swedish Migration Board.