The Embassy will be closed the following days in April and May 2025:
NEWSMoldovan citizens with biometric passports can travel to the Schengen area without visa, and stay for 90 days within a 180-day period.
Schengen Visa Applications (Non-biometric Passports)
Moldovan citizens holding older, non-biometric passports should contact the EU Common Visa Application Centre in Chișinău, administered by the Embassy of Hungary. The Centre handles visa applications to Sweden and other Schengen countries.
Address: 131, Stefan cel Mare Street, Chișinău
Phone: +373 22 223 404
Email: cac.chisinau@mfa.gov.hu
Website: Hungarian Embassy in Chișinău
Residence and Work Permit Applications
The Embassy in Chisinau does not process any visas. Due to Romania's entry into the Schengen area, the Swedish Embassy in Bucharest no longer handles migration matters. Instead, applicants from Moldova should contact one of five designated Swedish “Schengen hub” embassies: Athens, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, or Rome.
You may choose any of these five embassies to submit your residence or work permit application. Note that this change does not affect Schengen visa applications. Contact details for all Swedish missions abroad are available at swedenabroad.se.
There are currently no official Swedish language courses offered in Moldova.
For those interested in studying Swedish, there are several options available:
Studying in Sweden: Visit studyinsweden.se for information about learning Swedish in Sweden.
Uppsala International Summer Session (UISS): Offers summer courses in both Swedish and English, including language classes (20–28 hours per week) and courses on Swedish culture, history, and society (12 hours per week).
SWEDEX: An international certificate for Swedish as a foreign language, available both in Sweden and abroad. The exam is offered at levels A2 and B1 according to the Council of Europe’s CEFR scale and evaluates all language skills, with a focus on communication.
Embassies, career consulates, and honorary consulates are not authorized to issue apostilles.
The Embassy can legalize:
documents signed by an authorized official at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
documents signed by an authorized official at the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
More information is available on the website of the Legalisation Section at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (UD Legaliseringar).
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.
