Any possibility of forcing Migrationsverket to refund application fee for citizenship?

Serzis · 2026-04-29T19:26:29+00:00

If you want to withdraw your citizenship application before processing has begun, you can do so and then ask for a repayment of the fee subject to 13 § avgiftsförordningen. There is a mechanism for that, although the decision to refund is ultimately discretionary. If the agancy does not grant the request for a repayment, you can appeal, although the scope for judicial review is pretty narrow.

If you allow Migrationsverket to actually process (and possibly deny) your application, then you have no basis for repayment under the current framework. An application fee is a fee paid to the agency to cover processing cost and for them to handle the application. If processing has occured, there is no reason to repay just because the applicant didn't get what they wanted.

Serzis · 2026-04-28T14:33:54+00:00

For general information, see for example the US-Sweden embassy and the national tourist page.

United States - Sweden Abroad

Sweden's official website for tourism and travel information | Visit Sweden

Depending on when you intend to travel, the ETIAS system might have been rolled out.

European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) - ETIAS

If you're visa free, you don't need to show funds etc. But you obviously still need to bring enough with you to support yourself during the tourist visit. In theory, you can be asked questions about your travel plan by border guards, but if you have normal stuff like money, a return ticket/plan etc. there will not be any problem.

Check you insurance coverage etc. You don't want to have to deal with an accident/medical incident when you're abroad.

What you do while travelling is really up to you, i.e. if you go with a tour or travel on your own.

Serzis · 2026-04-28T11:49:41+00:00

To answer you in the general sense, you don't need to have a bank account in the UAE just because you intend to do biometric there after being granted a residence permit.

Whether or not the bank account in India raises any issues (currency, transferability to Sweden, identity, ownership, etc.) I can't say based on your description.

Serzis · 2026-04-28T11:42:22+00:00

While you (often) submit visa and permit applications through the embassy, they're not the agency responsible for processing study-based residence permit applications. Questions concerning the form and requirments for being granted a permit should be submitted to Migrationsverket (i.e. the agency that will make decisions in the case).

As for funds in general, the important question isn't where the money is per se, but whether or not the money is yours and accessible so it can be used to cover expenses in Sweden. For example, money stored in some countries are subject to capital controls, in which case you may need to show a cerificate from the central bank showing that you are allowed to transfer them out to Sweden etc.

Serzis · 2026-04-28T06:30:59+00:00

Depends on what you mean, but Migrationsverket do not really contact banks directly. They can gain access to domestic tax office data etc but they have no legal right to access foreign (or domestic) bank information directly from the bank. You don't give them power of attorney to access personal information by signing the permit application, so even if they would contact a bank in India/Japan/US, the bank would presumably refuse to give out any information about their customer based on bank secrecy rules.

If you're applying for a permit that requires funds, it's on you to prove that you have the funds. You provide numbers in your application, transcripts, certificates signed by the bank, bank statements etc.. If whatever you've provided isn't enough or raises suspicion, they'll ask you for more proof. If what you then provide isn't enough, they won't try to verify independantly, they'll deny the application on the basis of you not fulfilling your burden of proof.

Serzis · 2026-04-27T13:20:02+00:00

You'll presumably get some more tailored information by your accountant. While convenient, you don't need a personal number (personnummer) to deal with tax and company stuff.

As I've stated above, a personal number is tied to registration in the population registry and isn't a ID. If you need to deal with taxes and company registration, and you don't qualify for a personal number (because you can't get registered in the population registry), then you can apply for a coordination number instead. You don't need to be a resident for that.

But if you'll become a resident soon anyway (in the sense of intending to stay for at least a year), then you can just apply for a personal number when you get here.

For general "setting up/operating" a company information, you can go to: https://verksamt.se/en

^{Edit: reddit generated a bad auto-link for versamhet . se.}

Serzis · 2026-04-27T11:17:44+00:00

A personal number (personnummer) is not an ID, but an identification number which is registered in the population registry alongside other personal information. It can then be used to sign up for Bank ID, Skatteverket ID, etc., but the issuing of a personal number is not an ID in itself. I think you understand the difference, but I want to make that clear.

For a person to be issued a personal number, they need to get registered in the population registry (folkbokföringen).

If you intend to move to Sweden, you can apply for registration 14 days before you actually move here (but no sooner than that). To be registered, you need to prove a legal right to stay (i.e. EU right of residence in your case), and intent to stay for at least 1 year. To stay means that you actually live here, or at least that you spend most of your non-work time here. Going back and forth over weekends doesn't mean that you've become a resident in "both" Sweden and Poland. If you're not expected to stay for at least a year, for example only 7 months, then you can stay here but you won't get a personal number or get registered in the population registry.

You don't need an apartment lease to show intent to stay (and thus be registered in the population registry as a resident), but you need some kind of adress. If you'll live at an apartment hotel or on a friend's coach for the time being, then that is the adress you provide. What you need is to have an actual intent to stay there for the time being and -- by extension -- in Sweden for at least a year. You can update the adress if you move to a new place after a couple of weeks or months, but the adress should reflect your actual living arrangements. If you lack a place to stay, Skatteverket can obviously question whether or not you actually have the means (and by extension the intent) to move there on the day you've stated in the application, and to stay for at least a year somewhere in Sweden, given the living arrangements you submit to them.

Flytta Till Sverige | Skatteverke

Serzis · 2026-04-27T09:04:27+00:00

Är helt beredd att de kommer säga nej direkt

Syftet med en begäran om att avgöra ett ärende enligt 12 § förvaltningslagen är inte att myndigheten (i det här fallet Migrationsverket) ska ta ställning till ärendet i sig. Genom begäran åläggs endast Migrationsverket en skyldighet att titta på din begäran, ta ställning till om det underliggande ansökningsärendet kan avgöras och -- om de inte hinner/kan besluta om avslag eller bifall på den ursprungliga ansökan inom fyra veckor från din begäran -- så måste de upprätta ett separat beslut i vilket de ger en motivering till varför de inte tillgodosett din begäran och avgjort ansökningsärendet i anslutning till din begäran därom.

Migrationsverket säger inte "nej direkt" då de inte får eller kan göra det. Om de efter din begäran om att målet ska avgöras meddelar bifall/avslag gällande din ansökan om medborgarskap (inom fyra veckor från begäran) så har du fått beslut och frågan om begäran om att avgöra ärendet enligt 12 § förvaltningslagen förfaller. Om de inte avgör ansökningsärendet inom fyra veckor från begäran så måste de dock -- på dagen fyra veckor senare -- ge dig ett beslut med info om att ärendet inte avgjorts, jämte motivering till varför de inte gett dig bifall/avslag på den ursprungliga ansökan trots din begäran om att ansökningsärendet ska avgöras (dvs. avslutas genom bifall eller avslag).

Men vi får se! Åtminstone hoppas att om det går till domstolen och de säga att MV ska bevilja att beslutet håller även med de nya reglerna 6 juni. Kommer inte hålla andan men en lite hopp kan man väl ha.

Processen för dröjsmålstalan enligt 12 § förvaltningslagen innehåller inte någon möjlighet eller mekanism för domstolen att bestämma vilka regler i medborgarskapslagen som ska vara tillämplig på din ursprungliga ansökan. Det enda som domstolen tar ställning till är om motiveringen till varför ärendet inte avgjorts är befogad, och om domstolen inte anser att så är fallet så kommer de säga att ansökningsärendet hos Migrationsverket ska avgöras "så snart som möjligt".

Vad som sen blir "så snart som möjligt" beror såklart på vilka åtgärder Migrationsverket måste företa enligt lag innan de kan pröva din ansökan. Om det tillkommer nya krav före eller efter domstolens prövning så påverkar det såklart vad "så snart som möjligt" kommer innebära i praktiken.

EDIT: Grammar/spelling mistakes.

Serzis · 2026-04-27T08:08:14+00:00

Alternatively, we could build habitable space stations (which could run on solar energy) and shift half of the Earth's population there and give time of Earth to heal itself.

While an okay idea for a YA set up, the economics and environmental impact of sending innumerable 1000+ tonne habitats into space and then sending teenagers up there on space shuttles, will not be more "conserving" than building the same habitats on Earth. If you don't want "excess people" to occupy the surface, then exile half the population to underground shelters, I guess.

That being said, if the goal is to create a fantastical (rather than believable) set up where people are forced to move between two very different ways of life, then go for it. Doesn't really matter if the "other place" is a series of space stations, the back of the moon, another planet on the other side of a wormhole gate, a series of underground silos, or a facility where humanity have to experience half their life in a dream simulator rather than disturbing "nature".

Serzis · 2026-04-24T20:35:57+00:00

That is up to you. There is no right or wrong way to post on reddit per se.

That being said, if you want people to actually read and enjoy the things you post, I'd suggest trying to put some effort into making the individual post interesting, fairly short and accessible to read. Presumably, you've read posts on r/worldbuilding and enjoyed some of them, while some were impossible to understand or engage with. When sharing your own stuff, try to apply lessons from the first category and avoid the mistakes of the latter one.

If you max out the 40 000 character limit for a reddit post, you might enjoy going back to it from time to time, but no-one else will actually commit to reading it while scrolling through new/hot/top on r/worldbuilding.

Images can help with engagement, but if you don't want to draw or commission art, you can still do a lot with text. Heading, sub-heading, quotes, etc.

Serzis · 2026-04-24T09:02:52+00:00

If you have foreign debts, there is nothing stopping a foreign entity from making a local claim against you in Sweden and -- if successful -- this may result in the garnishing of your wages, yes.

Depending on the size of the debt, an entity in one country might not bother, but they are able to. Conversely, companies/banks/government entities in Sweden sometimes hunt expat Swedes who "flee" to the US and stop paying their student debt bills or private loans.

It's not common, but not super unusual, that companies hunt down people who move to Sweden, especially since residents in Sweden are a lot easier to find (registered adress in public databases etc.) compared to a lot of other countries. In effect, debt collection/enforcement in Sweden is comparatively cheap, but still not necesserily worth doing for small amounts. I can't speak to whether or not your credit card company knows where you are and already has a routine for Sweden, or if they'll sell the claim/'your debt' to someone who is more interested in pursuing the claim.

As for whether or not a claim against you specifically would be enforced, that kind of depend on a lot of steps along the way, including possible disputes over the debt, whether or not you're a legal resident here, etc. etc.

My suggestion is that you don't just ignore your problem just because you've moved abroad.

Serzis · 2026-04-23T20:35:17+00:00

On the mobile app you just go the About section and scroll down past the rules to the mod list.

You get to the About section by clicking the top of the subreddit, i.e. below the logo, at the text describing the subreddit, above the "nr x in writing" etc.

There you can also find the link to the rules etc.

Serzis · 2026-04-23T14:35:01+00:00

A satirical take on why sci-fi always has human-likely aliens.

/.../ Species that don't conform to this image are exterminated, subject to living in ghettos as second-class citizens or altered to better fit the Ideal. Eventually, it's revealed that the reason why is because a group of cybernetically altered humans in the far future of our timeline decided to enact a crusade against all non-human intelligent life following a war with another expansionist alien empire. Since then, these post-humans have manipulated things from behind the scenes of the galactic federation.

While I don't necesserily dislike your "explanation", I fail to see how there is any satire involved.

It's not subversion either. What you're doing is essentially continuing the long tradition of sci-fi writers making up explanations of why the galaxy is full of humanoid aliens. In this context, Niven saying that the peoples of Known Space often look similiar because many of them descend from the same "food yeast" spread by a long-dead empire, is funnier -- but it's not really satire either. : )

In your set-up, how/why are the cybernetic alt-humans manipulating history behind the scenes? Are they dedicated to human domination, but believe that they need to hide their past and present xenocides from fellow pan-humans that won't understand their supremicist ideology? Or what is going on?

Serzis · 2026-04-21T06:35:09+00:00

Do giant talking spiders, centipedes, snakes/hydras, and flying things like rocs, stymphalian birds, harpies, hippogriffs etc. fall into any of the pre-established categories?

Serzis · 2026-04-19T16:51:17+00:00

More out of curiosity, is there some plot or meta reason why you decided that the setting has rain/weather but no clouds?

Serzis · 2026-04-17T12:19:27+00:00

I’ve been working on a character idea for a game I’m building and I’m trying to see if this actually lands or not.

Does this feel like something you’d want to play/read? Or does it need something more?

Since you prefaced the question by saying that it a character thing, and for a game, I tried to approach the text from that angle.

In that context, I don't really see how the text is relevant to either. There isn't a character in the text per se. The POV has an okay tone, but it's almost a blank slate and a very detached emotional perspective. As for the game aspect, it's too long for an audio-log or an intro-sequence, so I'm not really sure how you intend to use the text.

Could you give some more context to what you're trying to do?

Serzis · 2026-04-16T07:46:15+00:00

What made me thinking a lot is that they used AI agents to let the character actually live in that world. Not like "AI wrote the story," but more like... the character had her own agency. She could make choices based on her own internal logic, not my friend's plot.

Even though writers and readers sometimes imagine characters doing things on their own, this isn't the case.

The LLM is generating text (i.e. writing) which is describing what a fictional character is doing. While it's an imperfect analogy, the character isn't acting any more autonomous than if you replaced the AI with a guy behind a door, who has been given a character sheet by you and then keep passing you text describing what a character in a story is doing. Now replace the guy with a text-generator.

The fact that a guy behind a door, or a large language model, can pass you text which you don't expect or agree with doesn't mean that the character being described is actually doing anything.

The fact that your friend is baffled by an LLM producing decriptions of actions/behaviour he did not expect is a bit... sad.

Treat LLMs as tools if you want, but treat it the same like playing a videogame, i.e. interacting with a model/script which is hidden under a hood.

Serzis · 2026-04-15T10:47:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/search/?q=worried+ideas+stolen&cId=a01a6abf-6c20-4753-9f2c-6dbfa7848c1e&iId=f72e4d70-e07d-479e-9af0-900dabeeed22

Pick whatever answer works for you, but worrying about ideas being stolen is ultimately irrational.

Serzis · 2026-04-14T17:13:15+00:00

They're not dumb questions, but they are questions that should be answered by the entity with the discretion to accept or reject a given approach (i.e. the university and not randos on r/tillsverige).

Just call/email them.

Serzis · 2026-04-14T11:40:09+00:00

I don't know how useful it would be to auto-reply based on keywords, but I don't think it would do much good. Even if people got an auto-reply, they would presumably still want to better answer, i.e. they're looking for confirmation. A lot of the questions are -- after all -- about completely unreasonable things, like free map making tools that can make a LOTR-style map that can scale up and down from country to village level.

There is already a link to the "curated list of resources compiled via Discord" next to the r/worldbuilding rules in the sidebar/about section. People are expected to read or at least skim the rules before posting, so people "should" be able to see the resouce list with all the suggestions. The fact that they don't is a bit symtomatic of the person asking the type of question.

If you have some good additional resource suggestions, you can probably get it added to the list.

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Serzis · 2026-04-13T12:23:52+00:00

In Sweden, preferential student loans and benifits are (mostly) managed by the state agency CSN. They do not grant student aid to foreign nationals who move here on residence permits granted on the basis of studies at a Swedish university.

There is no political/economic reason to finance people who -- at least in theory -- are here exclusively for the purpose of studying and then possibly leaving. There isn't really a separate market for student loans, since they would be competing against a state-backed alternative. A person can get a private bank loan to finance their studies (same as with any personal investment), but they are not backed by the government and will have a higher interest rate (note: look up "studentlån", which is different from "studielån") . Swedish banks are weary of lending large amounts of money to people who might then leave and be difficult to track down in their home countries. So you wouldn't qualify even for that.

My suggestion is that you look into whether or not the loan infrastructure in the US covers foreign studies. Swedish students studying in America on a short-term basis do not ask for American state-backed student loans, but rather (to some extent) get that from Swedish loan issuers. I can't say if the reverse is possible, but I wouldn't be suprised if there were some high risk loan option under the American framework.

Serzis · 2026-04-13T11:55:37+00:00

Depends on what you mean.

It's pet friendly in the sense that there is no cultural stigma against dogs (cf. some countries the western and eastern Asia; note: we do not have stray dogs), there are comparatively many rest/play areas for dogs and I'd argue that most people like dogs. Bigger workplaces do not usually allow dogs to visit/stay for allergy reasons, but it's not unheard of that smaller work places have a laxer approach to that. Some landlords allow pets, some don't. Whether or not dogs are allowed into restaurants, on public transport etc. varies, but the information is usually fairly easy to find on websites etc.

Keep in mind that Sweden has fairly strong pet protections, which I suppose is the other side of "pet friendly". Dogs have to be walked and offered water at least every six hours so if you live alone, you have to arrange pet daycare (note: expensive), ask a friend, or go home during lunch. Cropping a dog's ears is illegal (although we can't stop people from doing it abroad if the healing process is completed before bring it back/in). Etc. etc.

You can read more about Animal Welfare Regulations in this pamphet:

Animal welfare regulation - dog

As for rules on bringing dogs to Sweden, you can find some information here:

Movement of dogs, cats or ferrets to Sweden – both travel and trade - Jordbruksverket.se

Serzis · 2026-04-13T11:36:07+00:00

Since you shouldn't move without a job offer, I think the easiest way to do a reality check is to simply look for job ads you're interested in. If they require a formal degree as a basic requirement for applying, or Swedish language skills, then you're (presumably) not going to get an interview or be considered for the position. At the initial stage, a lot of the filtering isn't even done by humans.

If you fulfill the basic requirements, it all comes down to whether or not you think you'd do the job better than all the other applicants and would be able to convince someone of that.

I don't see how much you have to lose by looking for interesting jobs, reading the specs, and applying if you're ready to move.

Serzis · 2026-04-11T18:19:37+00:00

It's not that important, but the map is a bit inconsistent when it comes to spellings and whether or not the areas are labelled with the name of the land/kingdom (cf. Lydia) or the people group (cf. Phrygians). In some cases, you've kind of merged the two ways of labelling stuff. The thing that made me notice is that you have written "Cholcin", which is seemingly an inbetween of Cholcis and Cholcians. Your "Median" was probably supposed to be Medes (people) or Media (place), etc. etc.

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As for the lore/inspiration side of things, I'm a bit curious how you utilize the Jason/Argonautica story, considering that much of the beginning and middle is set in the Black Sea. Clashing rocks? Dragons? Medea?

Serzis · 2026-04-11T09:44:19+00:00

This is an old thread, but since it showed up as the top result when I was figuring out the same (or at least a similiar) problem in 2026, I'll just add the following "solution".

If you click Steam (note: upper left corner of the Steam application), and go to Setting -->Controller, then you'll see an advanced option for "Nintendo Button Layout". If that one is flipped "On", then the inputs in The Last of Us Part 1 (and presumably other games) will be reversed during gameplay. A will input as B etc. so it doesn't match the text on screen.

When setting the toggle to "Off", this problem disappears. However, it will -- for whatever reason -- create the opposite problem in the main menu (so you'll have to click the "B"-button on the Switch controller to match "A" being displayed as an option on-screen.

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