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Who starts the application
For a work permit for employment, the employer starts the application in Migrationsverket's e-service for employers by entering information about the job. The employee then gets a link by email, fills in their part, attaches their documents, pays the fee and submits. The application is only registered once the employee has submitted it.
Logging in
Migrationsverket's e-services are used with an e-identification (or, for some services, a user account with an email address), and what you can see depends on how you log in. Logging in to the employer e-service means accepting its terms of use. A representative who applies on the employer's behalf needs a power of attorney (form 107011); they create the application with their own e-ID and are then the only one with access to the case during the application.
If a foreign company has a branch in Sweden, the branch enters the employment information and handles the follow-up.
What the employer enters
- Company: registration number, contact details, when the business was established and where the workplace is.
- The job: occupation, SSYK code, duties, form of employment, start date, scope, salary, the date of the collective agreement, the insurance companies, and the advertisement ID.
- The employee: name, date of birth, citizenship, education and email address. Check the email carefully: it is how the employee logs in to finish the application.
- The trade union: the employer selects the relevant union so it can comment on the terms.
- Attachments where required: companies in industries with higher requirements (for example cleaning, hotels and restaurants, construction, trade, agriculture and forestry, automotive workshops and staffing) and new companies must show they can pay the salary for at least three months.
The advertisement ID comes from the vacancy, which must have been advertised for at least ten days in Sweden, the EU/EEA and Switzerland through the Swedish Public Employment Service's job portal (ads there also appear in EURES), or another channel that reaches the same audience.
If the e-service cannot be used, the employer fills in form 232511 (Information about the employment), which the employee hands in with their application at a Swedish embassy or consulate-general.
During processing
Migrationsverket contacts the employer or the employee if it needs more information. An incomplete application is not processed until it is complete, and an application that clearly does not meet the requirements can be refused straight away. The employer gets the decision by post; the employee gets it by email or post.
Extensions
An extension is started the same way: the employer enters the employment information in the e-service and the employee completes it. It can be made no more than two months before the current permit expires and must be registered before it expires.
Support for highly qualified hires
Migrationsverket's route to faster decisions is extra support to employers recruiting highly qualified workers (managers and occupations that require higher education, plus EU Blue Card, ICT, research and doctoral cases). Information officers answer the employer's questions, and for a complete application Migrationsverket aims to decide within 30 days. The support does not change the requirements, and it is not available to employers in the industries with higher requirements.
How Settio helps employers and agencies
Settio helps employers and immigration agencies run every work permit and relocation case in one place, from the first step to the renewal:
- Before the move: a plan for every hire, with each step, owner and deadline counted back from the start date, and documents that check themselves as they come in.
- After arrival: the employee portal shows the new hire their next steps on their phone, in their language, with no account or password.
- For the renewal: permit and salary monitoring tracks every expiry date and flags the extension in good time.
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