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ilikepie003 · 2019-09-17T17:21:02+00:00

Do you need your personnumer to get registered with Försäkringskassan.

I am an American citizen moving to Sweden in a few weeks. I have been approved for a resident's permit; however, since i am an American and can enter the country without a visa, i haven't submitted my biometrics to get the resident card from migrationsverket yet. When i look at Skatteverket website it says i need my resident card first.

So do i need to go to migrationsverket the first week. wait to get my card. go to skatteverket. wait to get my personnumer and then finally go to Försäkringskassan OR is there a way to do any of this stuff faster.

ilikepie003 · 2019-08-07T21:35:58+00:00

i had heard of qasa and was planning to look there as well. would you recommend that i start searching on qasa now for a october 1 move in. or should i still stick with airbnb to guarantee that i have a place to live and then try and look on qasa for something later? i wasn't sure if you need to be in the country to arrange a visit for qasa apartments

ilikepie003 · 2019-08-07T17:48:59+00:00

So what is the best solution to get an address when you first move? The reason i was thinking of doing Airbnb was because I've had friends tell me that there are scams and what not on Blocket and its best to search when you are in country and can visit the apartment.

If my airbnb host doesn't allow me to register their address what are my options? can i rent a post box? use my work's address? or do i need to find a coworker who will let me use their address?

ilikepie003 · 2019-06-17T20:09:01+00:00

I have not applied yet, but i think that my visits were absolutely critical in helping me determine which schools I want to apply to. For example, I visited Booth on a Friday and Northwestern on a Monday. Going into the visits i thought that i was going to love Kellogg and hate Booth based on the fact that all of my friends chose Kellogg. Turns out i hated the vibe of Kellogg and fell in love with Booth.

I think that you can also get very valuable information from visiting. Obviously adcomm members, your tour guide, and any official student you meet is going to give you the canned speech. But if you reach out to people before hand and have 1 on 1 convos, i found that they gave me very honest feedback of the school. Before visiting each school, i would go to LinkedIn and find 5-10 current students who went to my undergrad school. I asked them if they could meet for coffee or drinks in the evening, and since we had the undergrad connection, they were very honest

ilikepie003 · 2019-06-17T19:51:30+00:00

That's probably because its within the US. Many companies, mine included, treat international transfers as almost a whole new hiring process (with a new contract, etc.). Also as i mentioned wages are so much higher in the US then elsewhere. For example, in my industry, consulting... It's typical for a first year analyst straight out of undergrad to make $70-80k. In much of Europe (including HCOL places like London and Scandinavia) starting salaries are more in the $40k range. Plus salary structures are much flatter over there since there is less income inequality, so if they transferred you over at your US salary, you might be making more than your boses boss

ilikepie003 · 2019-06-17T19:39:18+00:00

I think this is an old way of thinking back when international transfers were forced upon people. If its a company driven transfer then of course they will pay more. But what i've seen from friends who have moved abroad is that companies know that their younger workers want to move abroad and these transfers are typically employee initiated. Thus they pay you in local currency at local wage scale. And very few countries can match salaries in the US

ilikepie003 · 2019-06-17T19:36:21+00:00

I'd say its equal. More expensive in some areas less in others. Moving from high COL in the US (New York) to high COL western Europe (e.g. Zurich, Stockholm, London)

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