Sweden removals in both directions, with guides arranged by direction, subject and city.
Different Swedish agencies decide the residence permit, the registration, the customs relief, the car and the pet, and each city sets its own street rules. The guides below are arranged by direction, subject and city. We’re an introduction service, not a mover. Your removal company will tell you what it needs from you and when.
Which direction
Open the guide for the direction you are moving. A move from the UK runs through the residence permit requirement, Swedish registration and customs relief. A move out of Sweden starts with reporting the departure and an export declaration, and for Great Britain HMRC’s approval comes before you claim its relief. Each guide also lists what its sources do not say.
UK to Sweden
The UK to Sweden guide follows Migrationsverket (the Swedish Migration Agency), Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency), Transportstyrelsen (the Swedish Transport Agency), Jordbruksverket (the Swedish Board of Agriculture) and GOV.UK through the residence permit requirement, registration, healthcare, a UK driving licence, a car and a dog or cat. It gives no immigration advice and leaves out the general steps of telling HMRC and your council.
Sweden to UK
The Sweden to UK guide follows Skatteverket, Tullverket (Swedish customs), Transportstyrelsen, Jordbruksverket, Riksantikvarieämbetet (the Swedish National Heritage Board), HMRC and GOV.UK through the report of the move, the export declaration, weapons, cultural objects and cash, deregistering a car, a dog or cat, and HMRC’s relief. It gives no advice on residence rights in the UK or on Swedish tax.
On Skatteverket’s page about leaving Sweden (opens in a new window), a report is due a week before the move for anyone registered in Sweden with a personnummer, the personal identity number, who plans to live outside Sweden for at least a year. HMRC’s transfer of residence page (opens in a new window) tells you to complete form ToR1, for a unique reference number, before the goods are shipped.
Customs, pets, access
Customs, pets and street access each have a guide, since each can shift the order of your tasks. Tullverket decides on relief for household goods, Jordbruksverket sets the pet rules, and street access comes from the national zone rules and each city’s own pages.
The customs guide reports Tullverket’s customs and VAT relief on belongings moving to Sweden: who may file, the declaration codes, the form the mover signs, a vehicle or an animal counted in the claim and the first-year limits on selling or lending the goods. It leaves out the export side in the UK and the way back out of Sweden.
The pets guide works through Jordbruksverket’s rules for dogs, cats and ferrets by country of origin, the microchip rules that changed on 22 April 2026, the Swedish pet passport and Tullverket’s report for dogs and cats. It leaves out rules for rabbits, rodents, birds, reptiles and other animals.
The access guide lists the eight municipalities with an environmental zone, compares what Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö ask before a vehicle stops where street rules forbid it, and reports the congestion tax at toll points in Stockholm and Gothenburg. It reads no move-day page for any other city.
Which city
Fifteen city guides exist, and their rules differ. Stockholm’s bollard dispensation needs five days’ notice. Gothenburg charges SEK 500 for a dispensation. Malmö bans night driving on two streets and charges for a dispensation, and Lund wants a written request a week ahead. Uppsala makes dispensations to load or unload free. Örebro names a move as a reason for a dispensation, Linköping lets a lorry stop to load under a parking ban, and Västerås has a permit for moves that is needed only on pavements. Helsingborg and Umeå lie in class 1 environmental zones, and Jönköping’s council pages name no rule for a removal lorry. Eskilstuna and Skövde each name a move as a reason for a parking dispensation, Kristianstad closes its pedestrian streets with bollards, and a move to Gotland turns on ferry freight rules. The points come from those guides, read between 31 October and 3 November 2026.
Several pages leave open who applies, you or the removal company, so ask your removal company early.
By county
All 21 counties are named below with their population on 31 December 2025, the latest county table we read, and each points to the guide that covers it. Single municipalities carry their population on 31 December 2025. Where a county has no guide of its own, the guide names its main town and says plainly that we read no rule from that council.
Denmark with Sweden has no guide. The Malmö guide covers the Øresund bridge price levels, and the border-controls note is under EU, Schengen and the krona. For a town not named here, send the full address with your enquiry and your removal company will confirm which municipality sets the street rules.
EU, Schengen and the krona
Sweden belongs to the EU and the Schengen area, but it does not use the euro. The EU and EEA country list on GOV.UK (opens in a new window) counts Sweden among the EU’s 27 countries, and the entry requirements in GOV.UK’s Sweden travel advice (opens in a new window) state that Sweden follows Schengen area rules. In the European Central Bank’s table of EU members (opens in a new window), Sweden appears as a member not using the euro.
GOV.UK says the Sweden entry requirements apply to British citizens travelling from the UK on a full passport. Its 90-day visa-free allowance is for visits. For a longer stay GOV.UK points to the Swedish government’s own entry rules, so a move to live in Sweden is a separate question: the UK to Sweden guide follows what Migrationsverket and Skatteverket say about a permit and registration.
GOV.UK adds that border controls are in place in Sweden for people travelling from Denmark via the Öresund crossing and arriving on ferries from Denmark and Germany. That sentence is about people travelling; it does not mention goods or removal vehicles.
The Swedish krona (SEK) is the currency named on the European Central Bank’s euro reference rate page (opens in a new window), and our guide to exchanging currency works from the bank’s daily reference rates.
Car and other starts
The car has no guide of its own. Transportstyrelsen’s registration steps sit in the UK to Sweden guide and Tullverket’s side of the import in the customs guide, which also explains Transportstyrelsen’s removal-item exemption for the registration inspection. If you are starting somewhere other than the UK, the pets guide is arranged by country of origin, and the customs guide is written for goods arriving from outside the EU.
Our car shipping guide compares container and roll-on roll-off (RoRo) transport. Before the load leaves the UK, work through the UK customs documentation checklist, and put the Swedish dates into the international moving checklist.
All guides
Each guide ends with its official sources. If your town is missing, add it to the enquiry with the nearest city.
Questions
If you are leaving the UK, the UK to Sweden guide comes first and the customs guide second. Open the pets guide early when a pet is part of the move.
If you are leaving Sweden, the Sweden to UK guide comes first.
Sweden is an EU member, as GOV.UK’s EU and EEA country list shows, but it uses the krona (SEK).
The European Central Bank’s table of EU members lists Sweden as not using the euro.
The city’s page says the application must reach it at least five days before the permission is to apply, and the fee is SEK 300 also if it is refused.
The page gives no processing time and does not say who applies when a removal company does the move.
At least a week before the move, by email to the council, says Lund’s parking page.
The council replies by email whether parking is allowed.
Transportstyrelsen’s registration steps are in the UK to Sweden guide, and Tullverket’s side of the import is in the customs guide.
There is no guide of its own for the Swedish car steps. Our general car shipping guide compares the options for any country.
Gotland has one, built on the ferry company’s freight rules. Denmark to Sweden has none: we read no Swedish page about moving between the two countries, so no rule is stated here.
The Helsingborg guide covers the freight ferry to Denmark and the Malmö guide the Øresund bridge.
The county list on this page names all 21 counties and the guide that covers each. Fifteen guides cover cities and places, and the rest of the counties are covered by name.
Where a county is covered by name, we read no rule from its councils and say so.
Name the towns at both ends, the month you hope to move and the main items. Say if a vehicle or an animal is travelling too, and which country you are leaving from.
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