You can also call the Swedish police from abroad and report your lost passpport. If you lose your passport or national ID card while abroad, you should contact the nearest Swedish embassy or consulate. If you have obtained a new passport or national ID card, you are obliged to hand in the old one for cancellation. If you find your old passport or ID card, it is important that you notify the police. If you lose your passport or national ID card you should report it to the police. Lost and found passports and national ID cards If the applicant already has a valid passport and applies for a provisional passport, the regular passport will be revoked and blocked. The applicant must be prepared to be able to prove the need for the provisional passport. The same rules apply when applying for a temporary passport as with a regular passport. Only certain passport offices issue provisional passports. The easier way of obtaining this information is by contacting the respective embassy or travel agency.

You must know how long the passport is to be valid for and if the country you are visiting accepts a Swedish provisional passport. Provisional passportĪ provisional passport is only issued for an imminent journey. A provisional passport is not a valid form of identification when applying for a passport. In the event that you do not have identification, your husband, wife, parent, grandparent, sibling of a legal age with their own identification, or guardian can attest to your identity. A Swedish SIS-branded ID card or an ID card issued by a government authority, e.g., the Swedish Tax Agency.A valid Swedish passport (a provisional passport is not a valid form of identification).The following are considered approved forms of identification: When applying for a new passport or national ID card, you must be able to present identification. Valid identification at the time of application You need to bring your receipt when collecting your passport or national ID card. All passport offices accept payment by credit- and debit cards.Īfter the application has been approved, the passport or national ID card is normally delivered to a passport office. Payment is made at the time of application. If you apply for a passport at the same time, the fee is 400 sek. * The temporarily reduced application fee of 100 sek is applicable if you only apply for the national ID card. Those who are under 18 years old are required to have written consent from all guardians.Īppendix to a passport/national identity card application (for a minor) Cost Passport All who apply for passports and national ID cards must personally come to the police passport office, including children and adolescents. Photographs will be taken at the passport office. Your old passport, if it is still valid.Valid identification (a valid passport is one of several valid ID documents).If you are a Swedish citizen over 18 years old and living in Sweden, you are required to take the following with you: You therefore do not need to apply for a new national identity card due to the new requirements and validity periods.

If you already have a national identity card, it is still valid for the time indicated on the card. The changes are introduced due to an EU regulation on increased security for certain identity and residence documents. The validity period for national identity cards for children under the age of twelve is also reduced from five years to three years. For persons who, for temporary physical reasons, are unable to leave fingerprints, the period of validity is limited to a maximum of one year. An important change is that fingerprints need to be provided when applying for a national identity card. New requirements for national ID card from 2 Augustįrom 2 August 2021, new requirements and validity periods for national identity cards apply.

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