What we can help you with
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Sweden’s embassies are responsible for providing consular services – advice and support – to Swedes abroad in various emergency situations. Our consular services are based on the Swedish consular regulatory framework and are provided equitably and in a legally certain manner irrespective of where you are in the world.
Circumstances and regulations vary from country to country and can sometimes influence how the consular mandate is carried out. Remember that personal responsibility is key when travelling abroad.
Consular services for Swedes abroad
- Providing information on how to resolve your situation if you are involved in an emergency situation abroad.
- Issuing regular or provisional passports.
- Providing information on how to transfer money from your own bank accounts.
- Contacting your relatives in Sweden.
- Guiding you in dealings with local authorities in the country.
- Providing a loan for returning home to Sweden in an emergency situation when all other options have been exhausted. The loan must be repaid.
- Providing information and support in a major crisis situation.
- If you are arrested by police and are detained, we can contact your relatives (with your consent) and provide information on finding a public counsel.
- In the event of a death abroad, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs can keep in touch with your relatives and assist them with practical matters.
Last updated 10 Oct 2024, 10.44 AM
