EU Blue Card (Sweden)

Conditions you must meet

• Higher education of at least 180 credits, OR at least five years of relevant professional experienceALTERNATIVES, not a joint test — Migrationsverket writes 'alternatively'. The experience route matters: it opens the Blue Card to people without a degree, which is not how the card is usually described.
• Salary of at least SEK 53,625 per month — 1.25 times the Swedish averageSEK 53,625 per month · SEK 1.25 multiplier of average salaryA FORMULA WITH A DATED VALUE, not a fixed figure. Migrationsverket sets the threshold annually at 1.25 times the average gross salary published by the National Mediation Office, and states the current value applies 'since 15 july 2026'. The formula is the durable fact; the amount is a snapshot. Sweden's threshold is set nationally, so it must never be crossed with the Dutch Blue Card's.
• Comprehensive health insurance, held or applied forThe cover is prescribed, not generic: urgent and other medical care, hospitalisation, emergency dental care, and medical repatriation. One trap — for a stay under a year in total, the insurance must run three months BEYOND the employment period.
• If your family applies with you: you must be able to support them financiallyAPPLIES ONLY WHEN FAMILY APPLY TOGETHER WITH YOU — it is not a second income bar on every Blue Card applicant, which is the impression a quick read of this page leaves. It is a residual-income test: enough left after rent to cover living costs for the whole household, so a high salary with a high rent can still fail it.
• If your family applies with you: SEK 10,314 per month must remain after rent for cohabiting partnersSEK 3,336 per month child 0 6 · SEK 4,004 per month child 7 10 · SEK 4,672 per month child 11 14 · SEK 6,243 per month single adult · SEK 5,339 per month child 15 plus · SEK 10,314 per month cohabiting partnersTHIS PAGE DATES THESE FIGURES TO 2025. Migrationsverket's own maintenance page gives the identical six amounts as 2026 (see se-family-partner). Same authority, same numbers, two different years — one page is stale and the pages alone do not say which. The quote and stated_for_year here match THIS page; the conflict is recorded rather than silently resolved. Child amounts are reduced by any child allowance.
• The card only permits work for the employer and in the profession named in your applicationA live restriction, not a formality: changing job, changing profession, or the employment ending must all be reported to Migrationsverket.

Documents you must provide

• A valid passport
• A signed contract for highly qualified employment lasting at least six monthsTwo conditions in one sentence: the employment must be highly qualified AND at least six months long, and the contract must be signed by both parties.

Steps in the process

• Your employer starts the application — give them your details and keep that email address workingThe applicant does not open this application; the employer does, using the applicant's name, date of birth, citizenship and email. Migrationsverket then contacts the applicant at that address, so losing access to it during processing breaks the channel the decision arrives on.
• Documents in Swedish or English, with certified translations and the original attached
• Name the embassy where you would present your passport or be interviewedStated in the application. Not every Swedish mission handles migration cases, and the one you visit may not be the one deciding — some interviews run by video link with a different embassy responsible.
• Report to Migrationsverket if your employment ends, you change jobs, or permit conditions change

Government fees

• Application fee: SEK 2,000 for the employee, SEK 1,500 per adult family member, SEK 750 per childSEK 750 child · SEK 2,000 employee · SEK 1,500 adult family memberCitizens of Japan pay no application fee — an exemption from a bilateral agreement that appears nowhere else in this registry. No refund if the application is rejected.

Also stated by the authority

Not requirements in themselves. These are alternatives, exemptions, rights and warnings the authority publishes alongside the requirements — quoted here because they can change what applies to you.

• First card runs at least nine months and at most four yearsWhat the permit grants rather than what it demands. Accompanying family can be granted the same period but never longer than the cardholder's.
• If granted a permit of at least a year, register in Sweden's population registerNot a condition of the card — Migrationsverket's own advice, and the practical gateway to health, medical and dental care. Done at the Swedish Tax Agency, not at Migrationsverket.