Embassy of Sweden Chisinau, Moldova

From the 28th of April, 2014 Moldovan citizens with biometric passports can travel to the Schengen area without visa, and stay for 90 days within a 180-day period.

Moldovan citizens with older passport (non-biometric) should contact the EU Common Visa Application Centre, administered by the Embassy of Hungary in Moldova. The Center issues visas for citizens of Moldova wishing to travel to Sweden or to Denmark, Norway, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Luxemburg, Estonia, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Slovakia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Latvia, and Hungary.

Embassy of Hungary
131, Stefan cel Mare Street, Chisinau, MD-2004
Tel: +373 22 223 404;
Fax: +373 22 224 513
E-mail: cac.chisinau@mfa.gov.hu
Website: https://kisinyov.mfa.gov.hu/eng

Residents of Moldova have until now been referred to the Embassy in Bucharest for applications for residence and work permit. Since Romania now is a part of the Schengen area the Embassy in Bucharest have been exempted from handling migration matters. Applicants residing within the Embassy of Bucharest´s consular jurisdiction is from now instead referred to one of the five so called Schengen hubs that handles all migration matters within the Schengen area.

The Schengen hubs are the following Swedish Embassies:

Athens

Berlin

Madrid

Paris

Rome

This means that if you want to apply for residence or work permit you can choose which of these five Missions you want to handle your application. It also means you can no longer turn to the Embassy in Bucharest for migration matters. Please note that this only applies to applications for residence and work permit. There will be no changes with regards to applications for Schengen visas.

To book an appointment or to contact the Embassy for other questions you can find contact information on swedenabroad.se.

Unfortunately, there are no official Swedish language courses organized in Moldova. 

If you are interested in studying Swedish in Sweden, you can find more information on Studying in Sweden - learn Swedish.

Uppsala International Summer Session UISS, organizes summer courses in English and Swedish. Foreign language courses are taught 20-28 hours per week, and courses on Swedish culture, history and society - 12 hours per week.

SWEDEX is an international certificate for Swedish as a foreign language. This can be obtained in Sweden or abroad and is an independent certificate that you can obtain regardless of how you learned Swedish. Two different exams are required at levels A2 and B1 according to the Council of Europe levels. At both levels, all language skills are tested, with an emphasis on communication skills.

The Swedish Embassy can make temporary passports. Read more about temporary passports here (in Swedish):
Provisoriskt pass 

The Embassy does not have the technical possibilities to make ordinary passports or National ID cards. That can be done at other embassies in the region or in Sweden. However, the regular passport and national ID card can be collected at the embassy in Moldova for a fee. Read more information about the fees here (in Swedish): Avgifter - Sweden Abroad 

General information about passports here (in English).

Legalisation

The embassy can legalize:

• a document signed by the competent official of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
• document signed by the competent official of the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A legalisation is a stamp that certifies the authenticity of the signature on a document and the capacity in which the signatory has signed it.

More information can be found on the website of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Legalisations (in Swedish): UD Legaliseringar - Regeringen.se 

Apostille

The Embassy can not provide an Apostille.

As of 1 January 2005, only Notaries Public and Deputy Notaries Public in Sweden have the right to issue apostilles, which replace legalisation for Swedish documents in Moldova. When a document has an apostille stamp, it is exempt from any form of authentication, i.e. no further approval/legalisation is required from a foreign embassy.

The Swedish Government has supported the Republic of Moldova in its national development and reform agenda for the past twenty years. The newly adopted Strategy for Sweden’s reform cooperation with Eastern Europe for 2021–2027 outlines the areas where Sweden will assist the countries in the region to forge closer links with the EU through reforms. 

You find the strategy on reform cooperation with Eastern Europe here.

Read more about the Development Cooperation - Sweden Abroad.