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Nordic Immigration and Relocation Services for Families, Professionals and Employers
Sweden Relocators AB is an immigration and relocation consultancy based in Malmo, working across Sweden, Denmark and Norway since 2015. We handle every application ourselves, from the first eligibility assessment to the decision, and where a decision goes the wrong way we take it further through reconsideration and appeal. We are members of EuRA, the European Relocation Association.
Who we work with
EU and EEA families moving to the Nordics
Free movement gives you the right to be here. It does not give you a personnummer, a bank account, a housing contract or a school place, and it does not automatically cover a spouse or parent from outside the EU. We handle the residence cards, the population registration and the practical arrival so the family lands as one unit rather than in stages. See EU and EEA permits and EU family reunification.
Highly qualified professionals
Work permits, EU Blue Cards, ICT permits and intra-group transfers, plus the extension chain that follows. Sweden raised the work permit salary requirement to 90 per cent of the median salary on 1 June 2026, and the transitional 80 per cent rule for extensions ends on 2 December 2026. If your permit is up for renewal, that date matters more than anything else on this page. See work permits.
Employers and HR teams
Corporate immigration and global mobility for companies bringing staff into Sweden and Denmark: permit strategy before the offer letter, application handling for the employee and the accompanying family, company registration, payroll administration and Employer of Record where you have no local entity. One named contact carries the file, and a client portal gives both HR and each employee their own login. See services and company registration.
What makes a case succeed
Most refusals we see on appeal are not refusals on the merits. They are documentary gaps, an assessment made without the individual examination that the Aliens Act, Utlanningslagen (2005:716), and the objectivity principle in Chapter 1, Section 9 of the Instrument of Government both require, or a submission that answered a different question from the one the case officer was asking. We build the file to be decided, not merely to be filed.
Where a decision is wrong, there are two separate routes with separate deadlines: reconsideration by the deciding authority under Section 37 of the Administrative Procedure Act, Forvaltningslagen (2017:900), and appeal to the Migration Court. We assess both before recommending one. See appeals.
Sweden, Denmark and Norway
The Nordic countries share a labour market and very little else administratively. Sweden runs permits through Migrationsverket and identity numbers through Skatteverket. Denmark runs residence through SIRI and CPR numbers through Borgerservice; our Danish work is delivered through our partner company Nordic Relocators in Albertslund. Norway registers EU and EEA citizens staying longer than three months through UDI and the police. A move between two of them is two processes, not one.
Languages and contact
Cases are handled in Swedish, English, Danish, Urdu and Arabic, among others. Office: Amiralsgatan 86E, 214 37 Malmo. Phone 072-327 62 76. Email info@swedenrelocators.se. Open Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00. Contact us for an assessment of your own case.
This page is general information, not individual legal advice. Requirements and processing times change; we confirm current figures against Migrationsverket, SIRI and UDI before advising.