Accommodation
Here you will find information about what applies to you when it comes to accommodation in Sweden.
Accommodation
You have the right to live wherever you want in Sweden if you arrange your accommodation yourself, but your choice of residential area may affect your possibility of receiving financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency.
Read more about how your address may affect your right to financial support
If you choose to arrange a accommodation yourself you will be responsible for the costs for the accommodation. The Swedish Migration Agency will not pay your rent.
The Swedish Migration Agency needs to know your address
You must inform the Swedish Migration Agency how we can reach you. This means that you need to make sure that your address and phone number are up to date.
Use the Address Notification/Change of Address, Mot93 form
Pdf, 631.9 kB, opens in new window. to make an address notification or a change of address.
Do you need help with accommodation?
If you are not able to continue to live in your own accommodation and need help from the Swedish Migration Agency to find accommodation, you cannot choose where to live.
Once you have told the Swedish Migration Agency’s staff that you need help with accommodation, we will look for a municipality that can offer you accommodation. If you have already lived in Sweden for a while and you have started working or your children have started school, we will try to arrange for you to stay in the municipality in which you already live, but we cannot guarantee that this will be the case. You may need to move to another municipality. Please note that you will only receive one offer of accommodation in a municipality. If you decline the accommodation you are offered, you cannot get a new offer at a later date.
Different types of accommodation
Both the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodation and the accommodation offered to you by the municipality can vary. It may be an apartment where you cook your own food, a room where you share a kitchen with many others, or a larger accommodation centre where the food is served in a common dining room.
Anyone who needs help with accommodation must be prepared to share a room with other people. In most cases, family members will be able to live together. Single people will share a room with others of the same sex but people with special needs may be able to live alone. In shared accommodation, pets are normally not allowed.
If you have an income or money of your own, you will be required to pay for the accommodation the Swedish Migration Agency or the municipality arranges for you.
Rules in the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodations
In order for everyone to feel comfortable and get along, there are rules on how to use the common areas.
In all accommodations, you must
- keep the area clean
- not smoke indoors
- be careful with furniture and equipment
- contact the staff when something is broken.
Pets in the accommodation
If you have applied for protection under the Temporary Protection Directive, you are allowed to bring pets in the Swedish Migration Agency’s accommodations in certain places, but you must follow the directives of the Swedish Board of Agriculture regarding the entry of dogs, cats and other pets from Ukraine.
Security in the accommodation
The Swedish Migration Agency wants to ensure that everyone living in our temporary accommodation facilities feels safe in their living environment. It is therefore important that everyone respects each other and show each other consideration, regardless of religion, gender, culture or sexual orientation. All Migrationsverket accommodations have security officers.
If you are subjected to threats, violence or other abusive treatment, contact the police authority at the place where you live or, in case of emergency call 112.
