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You cannot choose which country examines your application (the Dublin Regulation)

You do not have the right to choose which country will investigate and examine your application for asylum. The Member States of the EU, along with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, are governed by the Dublin Regulation.

The Dublin Regulation determines which country will be responsible for your asylum case. You may only have your asylum application examined by one of these countries.

Which country will examine your application for asylum?

Even if you have applied for asylum in Sweden and wish to have your application examined here, it is still not certain that you are entitled to do so. Another country covered by the Dublin Regulation may be responsible for examining your application. You may therefore have to travel to that country.

This may be the case, for example, if:

you have received a visa or residence permit from another country governed by the Dublin Regulation
you have illegally entered a country governed by the Dublin Regulation
you have already applied for asylum in another country governed by the Dublin Regulation.

If your family already has residence permits in another EU Member State, it may mean that your application for asylum will be examined in the same country.

Database comparison of fingerprints

If you are over the age of 14 you will be fingerprinted and your fingerprints checked against the database Eurodac to see if you have applied for asylum in any of the other countries that use the database. You can find out what is written in the database and you may ask the Migration Board to correct any mistakes. A Swedish authority called the Swedish Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) supervises the storage of personal information in computer registers.

If another country is to examine your application for asylum

If it appears that another EU Member State is responsible for examining your application for asylum, the Migration Board generally decides to send you there. If you do not agree to leave Sweden voluntarily, we have the right to compel you to do so.

Appealing a decision

If you do not accept that another country should examine your grounds for asylum, you have the right to appeal the decision to the Migration Court. The appeal must be received by the Migration Board within 21 days, calculated from the date on which you were notified of the decision. Note that it is the country in which your application is to be examined that is reviewed during the appeal process and not your grounds for asylum. You must still leave Sweden during the appeals process.

Theses countries are covered by...

...the Dublin Regulation

The EU countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are covered by the Dublin Regulation through special agreements.