Every route we track for Sweden, with the official source behind each one.
Sweden's EU-blåkort is a combined residence-and-work permit issued by Migrationsverket to third-country nationals with a highly-qualified employment offer; EEA and Swiss citizens fall outside its scope and instead rely on free-movement or separate residence-permit routes.
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Sweden's Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) grants a self-funded residence permit letting a highly qualified non-EU/EEA citizen come to Sweden purely to look for work or investigate starting a business, with no job offer or employer sponsor required.
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Sweden's student residence permit covers first- and second-cycle study at a university or university college, higher vocational education, post-secondary folk high school courses, and exchange or mobility study.
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Sweden's self-employment permit is a residence permit for non-EU/EEA nationals who will personally run a business in Sweden, and the Migration Agency assesses it as a business case rather than a paperwork exercise.
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Sweden's work permit is issued by the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) to any non-EU/EEA/Swiss national — no nationality is excluded on the source page — who has an employment offer in Sweden, whether as a regular employee, a self-employed person, a temporary or seasonal worker, or an accompanying family …
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Sweden's employer-sponsored work permit (arbetstillstånd) lets a non-EU/EEA citizen work for a specific employer once they have a signed employment contract meeting Swedish collective-agreement or industry-standard terms, employer-provided insurance (health, life, industrial injury, occupational pension), and — unde…
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Sweden does not operate a shortage-occupation list. Work routes here are decided on salary, qualifications and the employer, not on whether your job appears on a government list.
Migrationsverket (Swedish Migration Agency) · read 2026-08
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