Your first Swedish passport: 500 kr, five years, one visit

You have been a Swedish citizen since the date printed on your decision, and the practical question arrives in the same week: how do you get the passport. The answer is one booked visit, 500 kr and about a week of waiting. The booking is the part worth doing today.

First, let the registers catch up

The police do not read your decision letter. They read the population register, and Skatteverket enters your new citizenship there within a few days of the decision. It can take a few days more before Polismyndigheten has the data.

That is why the police ask you to bring the original decision from Migrationsverket if you apply soon after it. If you became a citizen through a Nordic anmälan, the document is the bevis issued by Länsstyrelsen.

Only Swedish citizens can be issued a Swedish passport or national ID card, and that includes provisional passports.

The booking and the visit

You must book. You cannot walk in and apply. Booking is on polisen.se or by phone on 114 14, and the accepted e-identification is BankID, Mobilt BankID or Freja eID+.

One e-identification can hold two active bookings, and one booking can cover up to eight people, so a family goes in a single slot. If you have no e-identification, someone else can book as your ombud, or 114 14 will find you a time.

Everyone attends in person, children included. The photograph is taken at the office — your own photo is not accepted — and fingerprints are taken from the age of six. You sign digitally at the biometric station, and again when you collect.

The fee is paid at the visit, by card or in cash: 500 kr for the passport, 400 kr for the national ID card, 900 kr if you take both.

What to bring, and what if you have no Swedish ID

The identity documents the police accept are physical and Swedish: an ordinary Swedish passport, a Swedish national ID card, a Swedish driving licence, a SIS-marked Swedish ID card, or Skatteverket’s ID card for people registered in Sweden. An expired document does not count, and neither does the digital ID card in the BankID app.

A provisional passport is not accepted as identification for a new application, which catches people out.

If you hold no Swedish ID document at all, which is the ordinary situation for a new citizen, you bring someone who can vouch for you. A spouse, registered partner or cohabitant, a parent, a grandparent, an adult child or grandchild, an adult sibling or a guardian may attest to your identity, provided they show approved identification of their own.

A foster parent, a god man or förvaltare, an employer of at least a year, or a public-sector employee with a professional relationship to you may also attest, with a written statement that sets out that relationship.

Passport, national ID card or provisional passport

The ordinary passport is a travel document worldwide, subject to whatever visa the destination requires. The national ID card is a travel document within the EU and Schengen, and a physical photo ID for daily life in Sweden. That second use is the one new citizens most often turn out to need.

The provisional passport is neither. It is issued for one specific trip, with a validity and a geographic scope matched to that trip and a maximum of seven months, and it costs 980 kr.

You cannot book a time for it. Only a few passport offices issue it, and you may apply at the earliest 72 hours before departure, showing where you are going, when, and for how long. Some countries do not accept it at all. If you hold a valid ordinary passport it is blocked when the provisional one is issued, and you must hand the ordinary one in. The provisional passport goes back to the police or to a border control after the trip.

Collecting it, and your old passport

From an approved application it usually takes about a week, and you get an SMS. Collection is in person and drop-in, with no appointment, and the document is kept for three months before it is destroyed, with a reminder sent first. You can ask at the visit to collect at a different station, or at most Swedish embassies for about 200 kr extra.

Yusuf’s decision is dated 3 August 2026. He books on 17 August for a slot on 27 August, brings the original decision and his Swedish driving licence, and pays 900 kr for a passport and a national ID card. The SMS comes on 4 September and he collects both the next day without booking. The passport is valid five years, and he may hold at most three ordinary passports in any five-year period.

Your old national passport is not collected by anyone in Sweden. Sweden permits dual and multiple citizenship, so whether you keep the other one is decided by the other country’s law, and you have to find that out yourself.

Migrationsverket is direct about the risk that follows. If the other country does not recognise your Swedish citizenship, Swedish authorities have limited scope to help you there, and an embassy official may not even be allowed to see you. The same problem can arise in a third country if you entered on the other passport rather than the Swedish one.

What we do not know yet

The police do not publish a national waiting time for a booked appointment, and it varies by station and by week. The only guidance in the campaign is that weekday daytimes and stations outside the big cities have the most free slots.

Whether the 2027 wave will stretch the week between application and collection is exactly what Polismyndigheten is trying to prevent by opening more times. Nobody yet knows whether that will hold.

What your former country does with your old passport, and whether it treats your naturalisation as a loss of its citizenship, is not decided or recorded by any Swedish authority. Ask that country’s embassy before you travel on either document.