We're in Sweden this weekend, visiting Margaret and celebrating Marcia and Rutger's birthdays. We will be taking a tour through the USA the next couple of weeks for a few visits before we return "for good" to Sweden on May Day. I still have to settle the shipping of our goods from London, but we expect they'll follow a week or two after.
One thing we wanted to do yesterday was to meet with Skatteverket, the Swedish tax authorities, to apply for extended residency as we are planning to stay the whole summer. I received advice which indicated we could be "secondary residents" of Sweden as long as our house was not our primary residence for the majority of the year. Thankfully, that's exactly the case, so I didn't expect any problems.
The tax office interview wasn't as smooth as I had hoped. The good news is there are no issues with our physically being at out little stuga for 4 or 5 months as we have planned. The bad news is that it looks unlikely we will get our personnummers made active.
As I've written a few years ago, most everything in Swedish society, big and small, hinges on one's number. We can get by without one, but things are a lot more difficult. I am hoping against hope that the authorities will look kindly on us!
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