Your employer starts your application
Your employer in Sweden will start your application by submitting information about your employment to the Swedish Migration Agency. To do this, your employer needs information about your name, date of birth, citizenship and email address. Once your employer has completed their part of the application, you will receive a link via email, which you should use to continue with your part of the application. Only once you have completed and submitted your part of the application will it be registered with the Swedish Migration Agency.
You complete your application
Once you have received the email with the link, log in to the e-service and fill in the information about yourself. You must also check that the information about your terms and conditions of employment corresponds to what you and your employer have agreed. Once you have completed your part of the application and have submitted it, it will be registered with the Swedish Migration Agency.
When you apply in the e-service, you can include your family in your own application.
Requirements for applying in the e-service
To apply in the e-service, you must
- be 18 years or older
- have a valid email address
- be able to pay the application fee with a payment card issued by Visa or Mastercard
- be able to scan or photograph the documents you need to attach.
If you cannot apply in the e-service
If you are unable to apply in the e-service, your employer must fill in form Information about the employment (232511)
Pdf, 818.4 kB., and send it to you. You must then submit it together with your application.
You fill in the form:
Application for EU Blue Card for work in Sweden (181011) Pdf, 855.7 kB.
If your family applies together with you, each family member must fill in the form:
Submit your application
You must submit your application at a Swedish embassy or consulate-general in the country where you live. Remember to bring the documents you need to attach.
Not all Swedish embassies and consulates-general handle migration cases, so it is important to check which one you should contact:
More information to prepare for your visit, such as information about booking an appointment, can be found on the embassies’ website:
Swedish embassies and consulates-general
External link.
You pay the application fee when you submit your application.
Once you have submitted your application, it will be sent to the Swedish Migration Agency.
If you are sending in the application by mail, you pay the fee to bankgiro number 5223-7005. The IBAN for the account is SE6912000000012810106908 and the BIC/SWIFT code is DABASESX (Danske Bank).
In the box for messages to the recipient, you write the name and surname of the person the application fee is for, as well as their personal identity number and/or case number. If you are paying the fees of several people at the same time, write the personal identity number and/or case number for each of them. Also write on the application form when and how you paid the fee.