Do you wish to do business with Swedish companies? The Swedish Trade Council provides information about Swedish companies and how to do business with Sweden. Search the FAQ or ask your question: www.swedishtrade.se/faq.

For investing in Sweden and for information about doing business in Sweden, companies in a certain industry, etc, please contact www.business-sweden.se

Information about scholarships administered by the Swedish Institute and other organizations is available at www.studyinsweden.se/scholarships.

If you'd like to study Swedish in Sweden, a number of options are open to you. Please have a look at www.studyinsweden.se/learn_swedish.

Studyinsweden.se, a comprehensive resource for information about higher education in Sweden, is geared to prospective students from outside Sweden. The site incorporates a frequently updated database of English-language programs, an overview of the Swedish higher education system, practical information about visas and accommodation, scholarship application procedures, and pointers for learning Swedish as a foreign language.

Radio Sweden www.sr.se/international/index.stm broadcasts Swedish news and other programs in several different languages all over the world.

You can find it on the website of the Swedish postal service, Posten.se.

At Hitta.se or Eniro.se you can search for addresses, names and numbers to almost any company or individual in Sweden.

Please go to the publication Tracing your Swedish ancestry. In the publication you'll find the information and links that you need.

Tracing your Swedish ancestry

Please read through our copyright instructions (link below) before you use any of the information from Sweden.se. We are very happy if you link to us but if you reprint or reuse our material in any way, please contact us first for advice.

Swedenbookshop.com offers books about Sweden in several different languages, as well as fiction and children’s books in translation. Sweden Bookshop ships all over the world.

The weather forecast on Sweden.se gives you current weather reports. www.sweden.se/weather

On the official Swedish website for travel and tourism information, Visitsweden.com, you'll find a detailed map of Sweden.

For a Swedish–English and English–Swedish dictionary, we recommend Ord.se.

At the Lexin website, you can translate Swedish words to and from a number of different languages, such as: English, Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, Finnish, Greek, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

At Webbkameror.se you can find links to Swedish webcams around the country.

Image Bank Sweden is Sweden's official image bank. It offers images of Sweden that are free of charge and for you to use when you wish to present Sweden abroad. Please visit Imagebank.sweden.se.

Statistics Sweden offers statistics on everything from Swedish exports to employment in Sweden.

Read about Swedish customs and traditions at Sweden.se/traditions

You'll find a list of Swedish national holidays at Timeanddate.com.

You can read about Pippi and Astrid Lindgren in the Sweden.se article "Pippi Longstocking: Swedish rebel and feminist role model" 

Read more about the author at Sweden.se/astridlindgren

Check out Sweden.se/food, where you'll find several recipes for traditional Swedish dishes.

The Division for Criminal Cases and International Judicial Cooperation (BIRS) at the Swedish Ministry of Justice assists Swedish and foreign authorities in such matters as extradition for criminal offences, international legal assistance in criminal matters, the transfer of enforcement of sentences and criminal proceedings, and service of documents in criminal and civil matters.

Find out more about Sweden's international judicial cooperation at the Government Offices of Sweden.

Legislation
The parliament (riksdag) is Sweden's legislative assembly.

The Swedish Ministry of Justice is responsible for legislation concerning the constitution and general administrative law, civil law, procedural law and criminal law. The Ministry of Justice also handles matters relating to migration and asylum policy.

Find out more about Swedish legislation at the Ministry of Justice website.

Courts
There are three kinds of courts in Sweden: the general courts, which comprise district courts, courts of appeal and the Supreme Court; the general administrative courts, which comprise administrative courts, administrative courts of appeal and the Supreme Administrative Court; and also the special courts, which determine disputes within special areas, for example, the Labour Court and the Market Court.

Find out more about the Swedish court system at the Supreme Court website.

The Swedish Freedom of the Press Act serves to safeguard freedom of speech in printed form. It gives all individuals a fundamental right to express their opinions and disseminate them without prior censorship. The Freedom of the Press Act also contains the right of free access to official documents, which means that anyone is entitled to contact a public authority or agency in Sweden and request access to an official document without having to give her or his name or specify the purpose of the request.

The Freedom of the Press Act also gives individuals the freedom to communicate information. This principle entitles all persons in Sweden to communicate to the press information that they consider important and necessary to make public. The publisher is not entitled to reveal the source if the individual in question wishes to remain anonymous. It is a punishable offence for anyone, for example the head of a public agency, to try to find out who has leaked information to the media.

Read the full version of the Freedom of the Press Act (pdf).

VisitSweden, the official Swedish website for travel and tourism information, is an extensive resource for information about traveling to Sweden. www.visitsweden.com

The Swedish Board of Agriculture has information about bringing pets to Sweden at www.jordbruksverket.se

The Forex currency converter allows you to convert the most common currencies to and from SEK. The current rates are listed under the heading “Currenct rates.”

Sweden has simplified its labor migration rules, making it easier for non-EU citizens to live and work in Sweden. At Workinginsweden.se you'll find a step-by-step guide to the Swedish migration process, as well as helpful hints for working in Sweden.

EU/EEA citizens
An EU/EEA citizen who is an employee, self-employed or a student, or who has sufficient funds to support himself/herself has a right to reside in Sweden. The term "right to reside" means that an EU/EEA citizen and his or her family members are permitted to be in Sweden for more than three months without a residence permit. A person who has a right of residence must register with the Swedish Migration Board no later than three months after entering the country.

Please check www.monster.se, www.jobbsafari.se, www.careerbuilder.se or www.jobsinstockholm.com for job opportunities.

You'll find the Swedish Public Employment Service here.

Non-EU/-EEA citizens
If you are not an EU/EEA citizen, you first need to get a job offer from a Swedish company. You can then apply for a work permit at the Swedish Migration Board, preferably online, or in person at your nearest Swedish Diplomatic Mission. A work permit is obligatory in order to work in Sweden.

In connection with your application, immediate family members may also apply for a Swedish work and residence permit. If approved, this will allow them to live, work and study in Sweden for the same duration as your employment and residence permit allow.

As soon as your work/residence permit is approved and your residence permit card is ready, the mission abroad will issue, or in certain cases send, the card to you. If you haven't previously been photographed and had your fingerprints taken, you will need to visit the embassy or consulate to do so.

For more information about migration to Sweden, please visit www.migrationsverket.se.