Apps and Services for Moving to Sweden for Work and Bringing Your Family (2026)

There is no single official app for moving to Sweden. The move runs through a handful of official e-services, used in a fixed order, and the first one is started by your employer, not by you. Here is each service, who uses it and when, and what to ask your employer for, whether your family comes with you or later.

The official services, in the order you use them

Step	Service	Who uses it	What it's for
1. The job	Platsbanken, the job board of the Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen)	You and employers	Job ads. An employer hiring from outside the EU usually advertises there for at least ten days first, and the ads also appear in EURES.
2. The work permit	Migrationsverket's e-service for work permits	Your employer first, then you	Your employer starts the application. You then get an email with a link to complete your part and pay the fee.
3. Your family	The same application, or Migrationsverket's e-service for family members	You, or each family member	Include your family in your own application, or let them apply later.
4. Passport and card	A Swedish embassy or consulate-general	You and your family	Migrationsverket must see your passport before it decides. If you need a visa for Sweden, you give fingerprints and are photographed there for your residence permit card.
5. Registering	Skatteverket's Moving to Sweden e-service, then a service centre	You and your family	Registering in the population register and getting a personal identity number.
6. Social insurance	Försäkringskassan	You	If you work in Sweden but aren't registered yet, tell Försäkringskassan.
7. Healthcare	1177	Everyone	Where to find care, and what it costs before you're registered.

The work permit: your employer starts it

• Your employer starts the application in Migrationsverket's e-service. When its part is done, you get an email with a link to complete yours.
• The fee is SEK 2,200 for you, SEK 1,500 for each adult family member and SEK 750 for each child. It isn't refunded if the application is refused.
• The job must meet the permit's conditions, including the salary. Check an offer with the free Permit Salary Check, and see moving to Sweden for work for what the offer must meet.

Bringing your family now or later

• Now: when you apply in the e-service, you can include your family in your own application: a spouse, registered partner or cohabiting partner, and children under 21.
• Later: family members who decide to come later submit their own application, through the e-service for family members. A first application is made from outside Sweden, and the permit must be granted and issued before they enter Sweden.
• Work: adult family members, and children who turn at least 16 during the year, may work in Sweden once their permits are granted.
• Money: you must be able to support the family. The amounts changed on 1 October 2026: see moving to Sweden with your family and check your income with the free Family Income Check.

After you arrive: register the whole family

• If you plan to live in Sweden for a year or more, you are generally required to register in the population register. Start in Skatteverket's Moving to Sweden e-service, in English, Arabic, Ukrainian or Swedish.
• Then visit a service centre in person for an identity check; some centres need a booking. Family members moving with you visit in person too.
• Bring your passport, your residence permit card, proof of why you moved (such as the permit decision or your employment contract), your full address, and a marriage certificate if you are or were married.
• Parents notify jointly for a child under 18. One parent can represent the child with the other's written consent.
• Once registered, you get a personal identity number. Until then, care you need is paid in full by you, according to 1177, so register early.

Plan the first weeks day by day with the free First 30 Days Planner, and read registering after arrival.

What to ask your employer for

• Who starts the permit application, and when you'll get the link.
• Which documents you and each family member need, and how to send them safely, not by email.
• Whether your family is in your application or applies later.
• The four insurances the permit needs from your first day: health, life, occupational injury and occupational pension.
• How you'll follow your case, and whether you get your own page where you see what's done and what's next.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there an app that helps me move to Sweden for work?

There is no single official app. The move runs through official e-services: Migrationsverket's e-service for the work permit (your employer starts it), the e-service for family members, and Skatteverket's Moving to Sweden e-service after arrival. Employers and agencies that use Settio give you your own page on your phone, in your language, to follow the whole move.

Can my family join me in Sweden later?

Yes. Family members who come later submit their own application through Migrationsverket's e-service for family members, from outside Sweden, and the permit must be granted and issued before they enter Sweden.

Can my partner work in Sweden if I have a work permit?

Yes. Adult family members, and children who turn at least 16 during the year, may work in Sweden once their residence permits are granted.

What should my family do first after arriving in Sweden?

Register in the population register if you plan to stay a year or more: start in Skatteverket's Moving to Sweden e-service, then visit a service centre in person for an identity check, with each family member.

How Settio helps you and your employer

Settio is relocation and work permit software made in Sweden. Employers and relocation and immigration agencies use it to run the whole move, and the person moving gets their own page from them:

• Your own page from a personal link, with a one-time code instead of a password, in English, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch or Arabic.
• Your plan in plain words: what's done, what's next, and what the team is doing.
• Documents from your phone: camera photos become a PDF, and files are kept for each family member.
• An authority's letter explained in plain words, and help with the first weeks after you arrive.

Your employer doesn't use Settio yet? Send them how it works for employers. The free tools for life in Sweden are open to everyone.

Sources

7 official sources

• Migrationsverket: Work permits for employees
• Migrationsverket: Family of an employee who apply afterwards
• Migrationsverket: Employing someone from outside the EU/EEA (advertising the job)
• Arbetsförmedlingen: Platsbanken
• Skatteverket: Moving to Sweden as a citizen of a non-EU/EEA country
• Försäkringskassan: Work in Sweden
• 1177: Vård av personer från annat land