your documents
Sweden decides residence permits centrally and handles Nepal through its mission in New Delhi. The file is online; the in-person step in Kathmandu is short and administrative.
The set below is what a Nepali applicant to Sweden is normally asked for. Your institution or your circumstances can add to it — treat this as the floor, and the official checklist as the ceiling.
Letter of admission
From a Swedish institution, for a full-time programme.
Passport
Valid for the whole permit period, with copies of all stamped pages.
Proof of tuition payment
The first instalment, where your programme charges fees.
Proof of funds
Living costs for each month of study, at the amount Swedish immigration sets.
Comprehensive health insurance
For courses shorter than a year.
Academic documents
As required by the institution.
English test result
To the institution's standard.
Online residence permit application
Submitted to the Swedish Migration Agency.
The application is made online to the Swedish Migration Agency. Where an in-person step is needed, applicants in Nepal use the visa application centre in Kathmandu, and the file is handled by the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi, which covers Nepal.
VFS Global — Kathmandu
Calculate the funds per month, not in total
Sweden specifies an amount per month for a set number of months per year. Work it out exactly rather than showing a round sum.
Pay the first tuition instalment first
For fee-paying programmes the payment evidence is part of a complete application, not something to follow up with.
Submit online and completely
Processing runs from a complete file. Missing evidence restarts the clock rather than pausing it.
Allow for the Delhi leg
Nepal is covered from New Delhi, so add courier and handling time to any published processing estimate.
Which mission covers Nepal: the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi
The monthly funds requirement: revised most years — check the current amount
What you apply for: a residence permit for studies
Swedish processing is document-driven and unforgiving of incompleteness, but it is also transparent — the agency publishes what it needs and what it is currently taking. Read both before you submit, not after.
Where this page shows a blank rather than a number, it is because we could not verify it against a source we would stand behind. A shown gap is more useful than a confident guess.
Most of your file is issued in Nepal and is identical whichever destination you choose. Each of these has its own guide with the office address, the fee and the steps.
The NOC is a Nepal-side requirement, not Sweden's — but without it a Nepali bank will not send your tuition, so it blocks everything downstream regardless of where you are going.