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CVAP newbieguide |
Hej! If you are a newbie in the CVAP group and, maybe more importantly, a newbie in Sweden, this how-to-get-settled-in-CVAP/Sweden-newbieguide might be interesting and helpful for you. If you're swedish, you're probably in the loop with most paper stuff; if you're student at CVAP, you will probably get additional help at the KTH info center right at Osquars Backe; in the following, I will give some advice to get started, aligning my own experiences starting as as a PhD researcher in January 2007. It might differ in the one or the other way from your personal walk-through, but I hope it can be a helpful lookup for CVAP newbies.
You will find information in a somewhat chronological order. To give a general rule in advance, it is a good run to stay loose and patient, as somewhen "all the pieces fall into place" (to speak with Poirot).
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| adress |
It is very very good (and maybe quite necessary) for all the following steps, if you know where you are going to stay in Sweden. Try to fix your adress in advance. This might be quite difficult, but people at KTH will try to help you. This is the best way to get into the loop. Do not get to deep into organizing stuff like getting a bank account, as you can mostly do nothing without your personnummer. |
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| administration på KTH |
As you start at CVAP/KTH, people there will be able to help you in the beginning. What you need first is a paper telling everyone that you will be applied at KTH, a tjänstgöringsintyg (application certificate). You will probably get this from the person that is responsible for your application. The best place to continue with collecting forms is the KTH administration and speaking to Gunnel Hartikainen or Kerstin Lagerstedt. They will provide you with lots of important papers for further tasks. |
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| registrering |
You have to register for living and working in Sweden. Therefore, you need to visit the migrationsverket (Swedish immigration office) at Solna. This is easily reachable from Stockholm main station in ca. 10 minutes. Take your passport, a certified copy of it and your tjänstgöringsintyg with you. It is also advisable to fill in the necessary application form in advance. For me, it was form 141011, "Registrering av uppehållsrätt" (Registration of right of residence); just go to the website and use the search engine with the number. With these things, you should be successful in getting your "bevis om registrering" (proof of registration) from migrationsverket. Take some copies. |
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| personnummer |
You will sure have heard about the Swedish personnummer (personal number), if you have informed yourself about Sweden. Though it is the fourth point in the loop here, it will be the most important thing for you! You need it for almost everything you do in Sweden! The place to apply for your number is skatteverket (Swedish tax agency). It is located in Södermalm, ca. 30 minutes walking from central station. You will need tjänstgöringsintyg, passport (certified copy advised), the tax documents that were given to you from KTH administration.
Note that skatteverket will start with your case at the day you arrive(!) in Sweden. Visiting Stockholm some weeks before your arrival for fixing paper work is a good idea - anyway, do not expect that your case will be touched until that day. The personal number will be sent by mail to you, usually around two weeks after your arrival. If not, call skatteverket (0771-567 567) and ask for it. If you call the number, there will be an automatic tape speaking in Swedish to you (tape menu). Press "3,2" for folkbokföring, personnummer (registration, personal number). |
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| bevis |
Well done! The main puzzle pieces have fallen into place the day you receive your personal number. The same day, you should order a p-bevis, bankärende (identification proof, bank affairs) that you will need for opening a bank account and a skattesedel (tax paper) that KTH needs for your payment. To get those, you can either call again (press "3,1" this time) or click through skatteverket's online-order-system, which is in Swedish only and very large. |
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| bankkonto |
You will surely be heading for an own bank account for your finances as fast as possible. You can do that if you have ordered and received the p-bevis from above. There are some banks around in Stockholm, which seem to have slightly different conditions for opening a bank account. You should ask personally there, but note that banks in Sweden only have visiting times from Mo-Fr, 10-16 in best case, and you have to calculate some waiting time after pulling your number. If someone demands your "ID-kort" (swedish ID card) or "legitimation", ask if your passport works.
If you get payed by KTH, you will probably have received a paper within the documents from administration, that holds a "Nordea banken" on the top. Nordea is the bank that KTH uses. When you have your own bank account (regardless of which bank), you can fill in your bank account number in this paper and deliver it to a Nordea bank. Your salary will then automatically transfered each month from KTH/Nordea to you/your bank. The whole process of the previous steps might take some time. If it takes too much, you can get paid by cheque. Ask Gunnel and Kerstin at the administration. |
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This is about your access to buildings, e-mail and computer network access at KTH. The delfi group that can be found at the first floor of the administration building is responsible for these. As long as you do not have a personal number, you can not get a full account. In this case, delfi will setup a guest account for you. You can change it to a full account when you are registered as an employee by KTH. |
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Finally, you might be interested in a more intensive training of your Swedish language skills. There are two places you can chose, courses at KTH or courses at SfI/comvux. |
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