One of my goals with moving back to Sweden is to start my own company and this is what I’m figuring out along the journey of starting from scratch.
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…knows your number but not who you are
I’m moving back to Sweden, and something that surprised me was that if you’ve been registered as living abroad, becoming a registered resident again (folkbokförd) takes 4-6 weeks of processing. Skatteverket (IRAS/population registry) can reject your application. I assume they will if they think you’re primarily moving back to mooch off the Swedish welfare state (I’m not, I promise 😅).
I’m allowed to stay in Sweden, but operating in society is hard, because most systems can’t find any information on me. Practically a ghost (I was gonna say stateless but that feels distasteful to try and put myself together with people who have real problems). And from official system’s POV I don’t currently live anywhere. I have already moved out of Singapore and my employment pass has been cancelled. I have an old address registered in Sweden (I officially lived at my mom’s place when I went to Singapore in 2012), but I have a new apartment I live in now.
[… more]aktiekapital sent for starting my company, the bank has talked with me and decided I’m allowed to have an account with them, next up, get approved by the gov’t.
also TIL, in Singapore you only need $1 as starting share capital and in SE it’s a minimum of 25,000 SEK (~3,500SGD)
and now the bank has confirmed that I’ve sent the money, and sent it on to Bolagsverket.
I love the transparency and setup of their page explaining how long it should take to process my application, there’s a goal (7 working days), and which applications they’re aiming to process this week (those from 14-19th of October). Wish more gov’t services did this. eyes Försäkringskassan
and my company careful chaos AB is now approved with Bolagsverket! 🥳