Swedish ID card: the Police take over on 1 December 2026

Skatteverket's ID card is being phased out. How to book the new Police ID card with SverigeID, the key dates, who can apply and what it includes.

The change on 1 December 2026

Skatteverket's ID card is being discontinued. For people who are not Swedish citizens, it is replaced by a new ID card issued by the Police (Polismyndigheten):

• From 1 December 2026, anyone who can should apply for the ID card at the Police.

• Appointments can be booked from 1 November 2026, by phone only: 114 14. Applying at the police station starts on 1 December.

• After 29 January 2027 it is no longer possible to apply for Skatteverket's ID card. Statens servicecenter offices stop handling it in phases:

  • from 1 November 2026: Stockholm Globen, Stockholm Kista, Malmö Värnhem, Göteborg Järntorget, Eskilstuna, Helsingborg, Norrköping and Trollhättan;

  • from 1 January 2027: Halmstad, Jönköping, Kalmar, Linköping, Sollefteå, Skellefteå, Stockholm Liljeholmen, Uppsala, Västerås, Växjö and Örebro;

  • 1 to 29 January 2027, only at some offices: Borlänge, Gävle, Göteborg Gamlestaden, Karlskrona, Kiruna, Luleå, Malmö Caroli, Stockholm Brommaplan, Stockholm Hallunda, Sundsvall, Södertälje, Umeå, Uppsala, Visby and Östersund.

⚠️ If you book an ID card appointment at Statens servicecenter today, you are probably going to the wrong place. From 1 December the route is the Police.

The new Police ID card

The ID card for registered residents without Swedish citizenship (id-kort för folkbokförda utan svenskt medborgarskap).

Who can apply:

• You must not be a Swedish citizen;

• you must be registered in the Swedish population register (folkbokförd) — see our guide on how to get a personnummer;

• you must be able to prove your identity in an approved way;

• you must be 9 years old or older, or turning 9 this year.

What it includes:

• The state electronic ID SverigeID, at assurance level 4, the highest. It lets you identify yourself and log in to digital services, also within the EU.

• When you apply, you accept SverigeID's terms of use. Read them first.

• It is not a travel document: to travel you need a passport, from your home country's embassy.

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