If one of you is not registered as living in Sweden, you must submit documentation issued by a public authority in your country of residence proving that there is no impediment to your marriage under Swedish law. This applies if you do not have a personal identity number, or if you have a personal identity number but are no longer listed in the Swedish Population Register.
You need to prove that you are over 18 years old, that you are not closely related to your future spouse, and that you are not currently married. You can do so in the following ways:
If you have been married before, you need to prove that your previous marriage has ended. You can do this by showing a divorce decree or your former spouse’s death certificate. You can post this document to the Swedish Tax Agency or hand it in at a state service centre. The same applies if you have previously been in a registered civil partnership.
You must both submit documentation issued by a public authority in your country of residence proving that there is no impediment to your marriage under Swedish law. This also applies if you have previously been listed in the Swedish Population Register and have a personal identity number, but have since been deregistered. You both need to prove that you are over 18 years old, that you are not closely related, and that you are not currently married. You can do this in the following ways:
If you have been married before, you need to prove that your previous marriage has ended. You can do this by showing a divorce decree or a death certificate for your former spouse. The same applies if you have previously been in a registered civil partnership.
Once you have all your documents ready (none should be older than three months) you pay a visit to the Local Tax Office (Skatteverket) in Sweden to verify your documents and start the investigation into whether or not there are any impediments to you getting married.
This process is called ‘Hindersprövning’.
If it’s not possible for you to visit them, you can always contact them to ask for assistance with your case.
If you both are Swedish citizens, all you have to do is download the ‘Hinderprövning’ application and send it to Skatteverket.
Here you can find the Hindersprövning (SKV 7880)
As soon as you receive your marriage licence it is valid for four months from the date of issue.
After the ceremony your celebrant will give you a marriage certificate (vigselbevis) as a memory of your marriage.
The celebrant is also the one to fill out the license and send it to the Swedish Tax Office (Skatteverket) where it’ll be registered, and if you are a Swedish citizen your personal data (folkbokföringen) will update automatically.
If you are from one of the other Scandinavian countries, the celebrant should send a notification to Skatteverket.
If, however, you are citizen of another country, you manually have to notify your country of your change of status.
Please look at your country’s procedures or get in touch with a family lawyer for civil matters.
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