I've started the A1 language test on their site that I've been told I should take by family in Sweden and going through it I know little to none of it.

Edit: I'm planning on taking a course to learn Swedish if it wasn't clear.

I’m considering pursuing a PhD (non EU/EEA citizen) in Sweden in the very near future, and I’d love to hear some honest experiences and advice from people who are currently doing one or have already completed theirs.

I’m particularly interested in hearing about the things you wish you had known before starting your PhD, especially things that aren’t necessarily mentioned in university websites or job advertisements.

A few questions I have:

Work-life balance: What is the workload actually like? Is working evenings or weekends common, or does it depend on your supervisor and research group?

Supervision: What are some green and red flags to look out for when choosing a supervisor or research group?

Salary and finances: Is a PhD salary generally enough to live comfortably in Sweden? How does salary progression work? What about taxes how much do they take from us ? (My PhD will be in Uppsala University)

Employment conditions: What should I know about contracts, probationary periods, vacation days, sick leave and other employment benefits? Also what if one day I just decide I can’t do it and wanna go to industry (heard from some PhD students that it’s depressing..but ik it’s diff from uni to another and supervisor to another?

Research expectations: How much independence is expected from a PhD student? What happens if experiments fail or research doesn’t go according to plan?

International students: Are there any challenges regarding residence permits, employment rights, learning Swedish or staying in Sweden after completing a PhD?
Do you have time to go to SFI class ? Cuz I didn’t during my masters in Sweden.

Your personal experience: If you could go back in time, would you still choose to pursue a PhD in Sweden? What would you do differently?

For context, I recently completed my MSc in chemistry at Uppsala University and have research experience, but I know that being a PhD student is a completely different commitment.

I’m not necessarily looking for reasons to pursue or avoid a PhD. I just want to understand what I’m potentially getting myself into before making such a big decision.

Any advice, personal experiences, warnings, or things you wish someone had told you would be greatly appreciated!

Got a weird situation with someone that I don't have a contract with, claiming to be my landlord. Anyone seen this before?

• I'm tenant, Private rental, contract signed with one named landlord only
• Lived there w/ rent paid on time for several years. No issues.
• A family member of my landlord, who isn't on the contract has been sending me weird demands for a few months, which i've ignored. They then randomly tried to evict me through Kronofogden, which failed.
• Now got a letter from them claiming that they co-owned the apartment and bought out my landlord 2 years ago. Which, if true, is news to me. No proof given. And that, they are actually now (or for 2 years) are my landlord. My contracted landlord has said nothing.
• They're also claiming "hyresvärdskollektiv" - that by being a co-owner of the apartment, they were also my landlord as part of a collective with my actual contracted landlord.

Is this legit? Just some B.S.?

We’re a Swedish Australian family moving from Australia to live permanently in Sweden next month, my husband is the Swede.

Our kids are aged 7 and 5 and have lived in Aus their whole lives, neither really speak Swedish.

They’re enrolled in a bilingual school and preschool and we’ve started working on the same work books my sons grade 1 class are using in Sweden so he’s hopefully familiar with the basic concepts by the time he starts.

They’re active kids, between them they do swimming, football, MMA, ballet and gymnastics and I want to keep this up for them but have no idea how any of this works in Sweden!

We’re excited but also nervous about the move, my 7 year old in particular is a very social little guy and is heartbroken to be leaving his friends and worried about making new ones.

I’d love to hear any tips people may have for settling their kids in. I won’t be working as my focus will be on helping the family with the transition and studying Swedish so we will have some flexibility to our schedules.

So my sister and I are going to Sweden for 2 weeks this coming June. We are flying into Copenhagen and spending 2 1/2 days in Copenhagen. Then we are taking the train to Gothenburg to spend some time with our family in Hönö (Gothenburg archipelago). We are leaving out of Stockholm at the end of our trip and we will have two days to select another location between Gothenburg and Stockholm. I'm open to train or maybe renting a car in Gothenburg and dropping it off in stockholm. I wanted to stay in dalarna but it doesn't seem doable. 7 hours to rattvik and tallberg. Any suggestions of what we can do. We want to spend two or three days in Stockholm. That's why I'm only allowing two or three days somewhere else, since the entire trip is two weeks. I'm open to going like 2 days over. But that's pretty much it. Any reccomendations? Thanks :)))

Days 1-3 - Copenhagen leaving in the evening day 3
Days 3-8 family in Gothenburg/ Hönö
Days 8-11 not sure???
Days 11-14 Stockholm

Hi everyone,
My spouse (Swedish citizen) and I submitted a digital application for a partner residence permit on July 13. It was marked as completed on July 20, and my passport was digitally verified and registered via Freja ID on August 3.
We attached a highly detailed, chronological document outlining our 4-year relationship (including 20 mutual visits/Schengen travels and an official marriage registered in Sweden).
Given the high volume of processing before the October 1st rule changes, are July applicants with Freja ID passport checks receiving direct decisions recently? For those in clear, well-documented marriages, is Migrationsverket currently waiving the embassy interview to clear the backlog, or should we still expect an interview request in the coming weeks?
Would love to hear from anyone who applied in June/July.
Thanks!

Hej! I live in Sweden three months this summer with my girlfriend but we break..

I really enjoy Sweden (Uppsala, Gothenburg, Vimmerby, Örebro etc) This country is fcking amazing.

So i move back to my country (Spain) but now i get a job at McDonalds Märsta, next to Arlanda Airport.

Im planning moving back but alone the next week, i look for a cheap room (3500kr) but i need a samordningsnummer soon as possible. I think its easy with a job contract.

I would like to make a new life in your country. My english is not bad och actually im learning Swedish 5 months ago in Duolingo. Not easy but nice challenge.

What doy you think guys? I gonna survive in the Sweden Winter? I never see snow in my life.

Im excited about this new adventure.

ToDo List Firts Weeks:

1. Skatteverket Samordningsnummer
2. Sweden Mobile Number
3. Open a Bank Account
4. Buy a Car + Insurance
5. Get more hours at job (FullTime 40h/week)
6. Try to get Personnummer + BankID + Swish

I really appreciate any advice for this new phase of my life. Tack så mycket 🤘🏻

Hej everyone! I have a tricky tax question for you that I just can't figure out myself. Maybe some of you can!

I am a German EU citizen. Say I were to move to Sweden and permanently live there.

I am currently working as a freelancer for a federal authority in Germany on a project basis. So they are not my employer, I am self-employed and I have to apply anew for every project. I pay taxes in Germany and I pay my own social security / health insurance here as well. The projects run for 1 to 2 years and sometimes overlap.

The practical work I do takes place in Germany and goes on for a couple of weeks. Then afterwards, I need to do a lot of computer work, processing data etc. which of course I do remotely from home.

So if I were to live in Sweden, I would like to spend a couple of weeks in Germany working there and then return to Sweden to do the digital work from home.

As a permanent resident in Sweden I would of course have to be taxed in Sweden and not in Germany. The fact that I work abroad and not fully remotely is what is bothering me.

So would I only have to register as a freelancer in Sweden and declare my taxes accordingly and that's it? That would be nice but I feel I'm not seeing the whole picture here.

I will also gladly read up on that topic myself, if you can send me to the right website.

Thanks so much in advance!

/edit: I don't have a GmbH, I am a solo entrepreneur and working in a so called "Freiberuf" in Germany.

Hi guys!

Sorry if it's not the right place to ask, but I wanted to ask a few questions about exporting an electric car/van from Sweden to another EU country.

It is for my own company registered in the EU, I'm not a car dealer, and I want to buy only one car. Value is around 200.000-300.000 SEK and I want to pay via bank transfer.

My questions are:

• Is there any possibility for a dealer to allow keeping the original plate till I drive home with it and send it back to him? Or the only way basically is the export plate (exportskyltar)?
• I heard that getting the red export plate is only possible with a Swedish address, is that true? The dealer helps with getting that (maybe even in advance)?
• The other problem is this isn't immediate if I read that correctly; the waiting time can be even a week?
• Where can I pay the insurance for the red export plate?
• Can the invoice be a "vat exempt 0% invoice" between companies?

Thank you in advance for any answers!

Hi. I am a non EU citizen with an EU medical education. I recently got an invitation to travel to Sweden for a possible interview organized by medicarrera.

As a specialist Radiologist (recently graduated), I have few GENIUNE questions regarding medicarrera and the life of a foreign doctor there. All replies are appreciated in advance!

I am curious, how are the interviews are handled and how intense is the "work tests" which they conduct?

*Do we pay a penalty of a certain sum* if we decide to discontinue our language learning program after signing the guarantee of employment at the hospital?

*Do we pay penalty if we work less (years) than the desired timeline proposed by the hospital and agreed on the contract?

*Does medicarrera charge you in any case possible?

(Discontinued language prep, rejections, etc)

*Has anyone experienced racism or xenophobia as a foreigner working in a Swedish healthcare system?

From (Patients/Co workers).

As per reviews, Sweden is in need of healthcare workers.

Do newcomers from non EU background manage to adapt easily? (Language excluded).

Is it true that *on average* they consider foreign trained doctors "not fit" ? (Due to language,ethnicity).

Would it be easier for them to issue a visa for people who needs one in order to visit Sweden after securing a job offer+language exams.

Thank you very much.