How to Apply for Schengen Visa
How to apply
If you are going to Sweden the quickest and easiest way to apply for a Schengen visa to is to do so online.
Applying online
You can apply online together with your husband/wife and unmarried children under 18 years of age. Any other people you wish to travel with have to make their own online applications. How to proceed:
1. Prepare the documentation
Check which documents and personal information you need. You must for instance have arranged for a passport and medical travel insurance and have booked an air ticket (although we advise you to delay payment until your Schengen visa has been granted), and you must also have an invitation from the person you will be visiting in Sweden.
Read more under ‘Required documents’.
2. Applying via the Swedish Migration Board website
Visit the Swedish Migration Board website and read the instructions you need. You apply, submit all your documents, pay and make an appointment at the Swedish embassy online. You can check available times before booking the appointment. [länk till kalender]
Swedish Migration Board online application
3. Visit the embassy
Take a print-out of the online application with you when visiting the embassy at the appointed time, together with the originals of the documents. If you do not bring all the documents, there is a risk that your application will be rejected. You may keep some originals if you are able to show it together with a copy. During the visit, you may be required to answer some additional questions, you are advised to answer even if you feel it to be unnecessary.
All family members who apply at the same time – including children – must visit the embassy. Diplomats and holders of official passports with Note Verbal are exempted and may send a person with a letter of authorization to apply on behalf of them if the application is completed. However the Embassy is always entitled to require that you apply in person. Please note that the application always should be
If you are going to Sweden the quickest and easiest way to apply for a Schengen visa to is to do so online.
Applying online
You can apply online together with your husband/wife and unmarried children under 18 years of age. Any other people you wish to travel with have to make their own online applications. How to proceed:
1. Prepare the documentation
Check which documents and personal information you need. You must for instance have arranged for a passport and medical travel insurance and have booked an air ticket (although we advise you to delay payment until your Schengen visa has been granted), and you must also have an invitation from the person you will be visiting in Sweden.
Read more under ‘Required documents’.
2. Applying via the Swedish Migration Board website
Visit the Swedish Migration Board website and read the instructions you need. You apply, submit all your documents, pay and make an appointment at the Swedish embassy online. You can check available times before booking the appointment. [länk till kalender]
Swedish Migration Board online application
3. Visit the embassy
Take a print-out of the online application with you when visiting the embassy at the appointed time, together with the originals of the documents. If you do not bring all the documents, there is a risk that your application will be rejected. You may keep some originals if you are able to show it together with a copy. During the visit, you may be required to answer some additional questions, you are advised to answer even if you feel it to be unnecessary.
All family members who apply at the same time – including children – must visit the embassy. Diplomats and holders of official passports with Note Verbal are exempted and may send a person with a letter of authorization to apply on behalf of them if the application is completed. However the Embassy is always entitled to require that you apply in person. Please note that the application always should be