Although I’m truly grateful to have been given the opportunity to relocate for now in Sweden, I never imagined that finding a job would be truly challenging. I thought having had enough work experience, it would be easier for me to apply but I couldn’t be more wrong on this assumption. For my fellow expats […]
My husband and I originally came from the Philippines and when he was given a wonderful opportunity by his company to choose into which country he could migrate to, I actually influenced him to choose Sweden because of our mutual love affair with IKEA. I thought that once settled and since we have all the […]
Like what I mentioned in my previous blog, we had to secure our Swedish ID cards first because it seems to be a requirement and would make it easier for you to open a bank account. In this blog, let me tell you about our experiences about the three different major banks and what was […]
We initially thought that once we had our own personnummer (here’s the blog on how we applied for the Swedish personal number), everything will be OK but apparently not because we found out that in order to open a bank account here in Sweden, most of the banks require for us to present our Swedish […]
The be-all and end-all of your life here in Sweden. Having your own Swedish personal identity number or what they call here as personnummer is of the utmost importance when you decide to relocate here in Sweden especially if you’ll be living here for one year and more. Once you have this, this will be […]
Four days after arriving in Sweden, we immediately scheduled for our appointment to process this card. We scheduled this online last September 23rd and then the appointment we chose was for September 25th. We were advised by our Immigration Consultant that this should be carried at all times especially when in contact with government institutions […]
Every time we travel, my husband and I always deliberate the airlines we’ll be using. Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways are always at the forefront of the world’s best airlines. For our most recent travel especially during this pandemic, here are the reasons why we chose Emirates Airlines over Qatar Airways for our flight to […]
Like I promised on my previous blog about our relocation journey here in Sweden, here’s a detailed timeline of our migration to Malmo, Sweden. I’m also updating this as we go along and process all the other important things now that we’ve arrived here like applying for the resident permit card, getting the personnummer, applying […]
Will we be allowed entry to Sweden without having a resident permit card or UT (Uppehållstillstånd) card to present when it clearly says that we need to have this card upon arriving in Sweden? What if we got infected with Covid during our flight or travel? What if immigration decides not to allow us to […]