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No Investor Permit and No Investment Amount; the Act Asks Only That You Can Run the Business and Feed Yourself

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Poland on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

147 exceptions recorded across 54 countries · none match Poland to Sweden · Residency through investment

Sweden does not sell residence. There is no golden visa, no investment threshold and no fund in any instrument read here. What exists is a permit to run a business: chapter 5, section 10 a of the Aliens Act allows a time-limited residence permit for a foreigner who wishes to conduct business activity here, if that person has the ability to conduct the activity in question and can support themselves. Two conditions, no money figure, and a ceiling of two years at a time. Permanent residence follows from chapter 5, section 5, second paragraph after two years on such a permit, and only if the business is established. Everything a reader is usually told about this route - 200,000 kronor in a bank account, 100,000 more for a spouse and 50,000 for each child, ownership of at least 51 per cent of the company, good experience of the trade, and knowledge of Swedish or English - comes from Migrationsverket and from no instrument we have read.

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At a glance

Investor or golden visa
None in chapter 5 of the Aliens Act

Chapter 5 was read in full. No ground in it turns on an investment, a purchase or a contribution to a fund.

Statutory test for the business permit
Ability to conduct the activity, and ability to support yourself

Chapter 5, section 10 a of the Aliens Act. Those are the only two conditions the Act states.

Investment amount in the instrument
None stated in chapter 5, section 10 a of the Aliens Act
Money the agency requires
200,000 kronor in your own bank account

Migrationsverket's page for self-employed applicants. The account need not be in Sweden but the money must be transferable here.

Money for a family
100,000 kronor for a spouse and 50,000 for each child

Migrationsverket's page for self-employed applicants, in addition to the applicant's own 200,000.

Ownership the agency requires
At least 51 per cent of the company

Migrationsverket's page for self-employed applicants. Chapter 5, section 10 a of the Aliens Act states no shareholding.

Length of the permit
Two years at a time at most

Chapter 5, section 10 a, second paragraph of the Aliens Act.

Permanent residence
After two years on the permit, if the business is established

Chapter 5, section 5, second paragraph, point 1 of the Aliens Act, read with the self-support and conduct conditions in section 7.

Requirements

  • The ability to conduct the business activity in question
  • The ability to support yourself
  • In the agency's practice, 200,000 kronor in a bank account in your own name, with 100,000 more for an accompanying spouse and 50,000 for each child
  • In the agency's practice, ownership of at least 51 per cent of the company and decisive responsibility for it

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Poland

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedUtlänningslag (2005:716) · 5 kap. 10 a §
«Ett tidsbegränsat uppehållstillstånd får beviljas en utlänning som önskar vistas här i landet för att bedriva näringsverksamhet, om han eller hon har förmåga att bedriva den aktuella verksamheten och kan försörja sig.»

Our translation - not official

A time-limited residence permit may be granted to a foreigner who wishes to stay in this country in order to conduct business activity, if he or she has the ability to conduct the activity in question and can support himself or herself.

The whole statutory test. Ability and self-support, with no capital, no shareholding and no sum.

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The Swedish parliament's public database of the Svensk författningssamling, serving every Act and ordinance as a single consolidated page at a stable address of the form /sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/<slug>_sfs-YYYY-NNN/. Each record prints the SFS number, the department responsible, the date of issue and an Ändrad line naming the last amending SFS incorporated, and each amended section carries in its own body the Act that gave it its present wording. Provisions not yet in force are printed alongside the current text and marked /Träder i kraft I:<date>/, and repealed sections are kept in place reading Har upphävts genom lag (YYYY:NNN), so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Transitional provisions are printed at the foot under Övergångsbestämmelser, but only for those amending Acts that have them.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The Ändrad line names the last amendment incorporated. It is not a sweep date and must not be recorded as a consolidation cut-off: it says nothing about when the page was last checked against the statute book. The consolidations are unofficial - the authentic text is the Svensk författningssamling as published by the Government Offices - and riksdagen prints a link to the Government Offices' own full text beside each record. An amending Act's own entry-into-force date is usually not on the page at all: where the Act has no transitional provisions, the date has to be read in the SFS as published. Where a section exists in several future versions the page prints them all, so an article number alone does not identify the text in force. The site is a Next.js application serving the whole statute inside the initial HTML; the extraction service returns nothing at all for some of the larger documents, which has to be met with a direct fetch rather than read as an absence.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedUtlänningslag (2005:716) · 5 kap. 10 a §, andra stycket
«Ett uppehållstillstånd enligt första stycket får inte beviljas för längre tid än två år åt gången.»

Our translation - not official

A residence permit under the first paragraph may not be granted for longer than two years at a time.

Two years at a time, which is what makes the two-year route to permanent residence a single renewal away.

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The Swedish parliament's public database of the Svensk författningssamling, serving every Act and ordinance as a single consolidated page at a stable address of the form /sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/<slug>_sfs-YYYY-NNN/. Each record prints the SFS number, the department responsible, the date of issue and an Ändrad line naming the last amending SFS incorporated, and each amended section carries in its own body the Act that gave it its present wording. Provisions not yet in force are printed alongside the current text and marked /Träder i kraft I:<date>/, and repealed sections are kept in place reading Har upphävts genom lag (YYYY:NNN), so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Transitional provisions are printed at the foot under Övergångsbestämmelser, but only for those amending Acts that have them.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The Ändrad line names the last amendment incorporated. It is not a sweep date and must not be recorded as a consolidation cut-off: it says nothing about when the page was last checked against the statute book. The consolidations are unofficial - the authentic text is the Svensk författningssamling as published by the Government Offices - and riksdagen prints a link to the Government Offices' own full text beside each record. An amending Act's own entry-into-force date is usually not on the page at all: where the Act has no transitional provisions, the date has to be read in the SFS as published. Where a section exists in several future versions the page prints them all, so an article number alone does not identify the text in force. The site is a Next.js application serving the whole statute inside the initial HTML; the extraction service returns nothing at all for some of the larger documents, which has to be met with a direct fetch rather than read as an absence.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedUtlänningslag (2005:716) · 5 kap. 5 §, andra stycket 1
«två år har ett tidsbegränsat uppehållstillstånd för näringsverksamhet, om verksamheten är etablerad»

Our translation - not official

has for two years held a time-limited residence permit for business activity, if the activity is established

Permanent residence on this route is two years rather than the four the employed route needs, and it carries a condition the employed route does not: the business has to be established.

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The Swedish parliament's public database of the Svensk författningssamling, serving every Act and ordinance as a single consolidated page at a stable address of the form /sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/<slug>_sfs-YYYY-NNN/. Each record prints the SFS number, the department responsible, the date of issue and an Ändrad line naming the last amending SFS incorporated, and each amended section carries in its own body the Act that gave it its present wording. Provisions not yet in force are printed alongside the current text and marked /Träder i kraft I:<date>/, and repealed sections are kept in place reading Har upphävts genom lag (YYYY:NNN), so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Transitional provisions are printed at the foot under Övergångsbestämmelser, but only for those amending Acts that have them.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The Ändrad line names the last amendment incorporated. It is not a sweep date and must not be recorded as a consolidation cut-off: it says nothing about when the page was last checked against the statute book. The consolidations are unofficial - the authentic text is the Svensk författningssamling as published by the Government Offices - and riksdagen prints a link to the Government Offices' own full text beside each record. An amending Act's own entry-into-force date is usually not on the page at all: where the Act has no transitional provisions, the date has to be read in the SFS as published. Where a section exists in several future versions the page prints them all, so an article number alone does not identify the text in force. The site is a Next.js application serving the whole statute inside the initial HTML; the extraction service returns nothing at all for some of the larger documents, which has to be met with a direct fetch rather than read as an absence.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMigrationsverket, agency guidance · Migrationsverket, Egen företagare
«Du ska kunna visa att du kan försörja dig och eventuellt medföljande familj. För att uppnå detta krav behöver du ha minst 200 000 kronor på ett bankkonto i ditt namn.»

The agency's figure for self-support on this route. No instrument read here states it.

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The Swedish Migration Agency, which decides residence permits, work permits, visas and citizenship. Its site publishes, per application category, the conditions it applies, the documents it asks for, the fee, and the monetary thresholds that the Aliens Act and the Aliens Ordinance leave to it - the maintenance figure for students, the salary figure corresponding to the statutory percentage of the median wage, and the capital a self-employed applicant must hold. It carries a dated news archive that is the quickest way to learn an amending Act's commencement date, and a complete sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It is the agency describing the law it applies, not the law. Where a page states a requirement that no instrument states - the 200,000 kronor a self-employed applicant must hold, the 51 per cent shareholding, the 700 kronor a day for a visitor - that is the agency's practice and must be cited as the agency's, never as the Aliens Act's. Its figures are dated by the year of application and move annually, so a figure quoted without its year is already wrong. The agency publishes no page at all for the self-support ground in chapter 5, section 5, third paragraph of the Aliens Act: its application menu has no category for it, which is a fact about the agency's presentation and not about the provision. News items are announcements rather than instruments and corroborate a date at best.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMigrationsverket, agency guidance · Migrationsverket, Egen företagare
«Du behöver utöver det visa att ni har 100 000 kronor för din medföljande make eller maka och 50 000 kronor för varje medföljande barn.»

The family additions, again the agency's own.

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The Swedish Migration Agency, which decides residence permits, work permits, visas and citizenship. Its site publishes, per application category, the conditions it applies, the documents it asks for, the fee, and the monetary thresholds that the Aliens Act and the Aliens Ordinance leave to it - the maintenance figure for students, the salary figure corresponding to the statutory percentage of the median wage, and the capital a self-employed applicant must hold. It carries a dated news archive that is the quickest way to learn an amending Act's commencement date, and a complete sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It is the agency describing the law it applies, not the law. Where a page states a requirement that no instrument states - the 200,000 kronor a self-employed applicant must hold, the 51 per cent shareholding, the 700 kronor a day for a visitor - that is the agency's practice and must be cited as the agency's, never as the Aliens Act's. Its figures are dated by the year of application and move annually, so a figure quoted without its year is already wrong. The agency publishes no page at all for the self-support ground in chapter 5, section 5, third paragraph of the Aliens Act: its application menu has no category for it, which is a fact about the agency's presentation and not about the provision. News items are announcements rather than instruments and corroborate a date at best.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMigrationsverket, agency guidance · Migrationsverket, Egen företagare
«Du ska vara den som driver företaget och äga minst 51 procent av det»

A shareholding requirement that appears on the agency's page and in neither the Aliens Act nor the Aliens Ordinance as read.

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The Swedish Migration Agency, which decides residence permits, work permits, visas and citizenship. Its site publishes, per application category, the conditions it applies, the documents it asks for, the fee, and the monetary thresholds that the Aliens Act and the Aliens Ordinance leave to it - the maintenance figure for students, the salary figure corresponding to the statutory percentage of the median wage, and the capital a self-employed applicant must hold. It carries a dated news archive that is the quickest way to learn an amending Act's commencement date, and a complete sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It is the agency describing the law it applies, not the law. Where a page states a requirement that no instrument states - the 200,000 kronor a self-employed applicant must hold, the 51 per cent shareholding, the 700 kronor a day for a visitor - that is the agency's practice and must be cited as the agency's, never as the Aliens Act's. Its figures are dated by the year of application and move annually, so a figure quoted without its year is already wrong. The agency publishes no page at all for the self-support ground in chapter 5, section 5, third paragraph of the Aliens Act: its application menu has no category for it, which is a fact about the agency's presentation and not about the provision. News items are announcements rather than instruments and corroborate a date at best.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedMigrationsverket, agency guidance · Migrationsverket, Egen företagare
«Du ska ha god erfarenhet av branschen och av att driva eget företag»

How the agency reads the Act's ability test: experience of the trade and of running a business of your own.

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The Swedish Migration Agency, which decides residence permits, work permits, visas and citizenship. Its site publishes, per application category, the conditions it applies, the documents it asks for, the fee, and the monetary thresholds that the Aliens Act and the Aliens Ordinance leave to it - the maintenance figure for students, the salary figure corresponding to the statutory percentage of the median wage, and the capital a self-employed applicant must hold. It carries a dated news archive that is the quickest way to learn an amending Act's commencement date, and a complete sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

Standing: Applies the rule

Cannot be cited for: It is the agency describing the law it applies, not the law. Where a page states a requirement that no instrument states - the 200,000 kronor a self-employed applicant must hold, the 51 per cent shareholding, the 700 kronor a day for a visitor - that is the agency's practice and must be cited as the agency's, never as the Aliens Act's. Its figures are dated by the year of application and move annually, so a figure quoted without its year is already wrong. The agency publishes no page at all for the self-support ground in chapter 5, section 5, third paragraph of the Aliens Act: its application menu has no category for it, which is a fact about the agency's presentation and not about the provision. News items are announcements rather than instruments and corroborate a date at best.

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Practical notes

The gap between the instrument and the counter is the whole story on this topic. The Act asks two open questions; the agency answers them with four figures and a shareholding, none of which is in the Act or the Ordinance as read.

The absence of an investor route is bounded by chapter 5 of the Aliens Act and chapter 4 of the Aliens Ordinance, both read in full, and by Migrationsverket's own list of application categories.

Sources2 · all accessed 2026-10-10
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    Utlänningslag (2005:716), consolidated text as amended to SFS 2026:1752

    Sveriges riksdag, Dokument och lagar

    About this source

    The Swedish parliament's public database of the Svensk författningssamling, serving every Act and ordinance as a single consolidated page at a stable address of the form /sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/<slug>_sfs-YYYY-NNN/. Each record prints the SFS number, the department responsible, the date of issue and an Ändrad line naming the last amending SFS incorporated, and each amended section carries in its own body the Act that gave it its present wording. Provisions not yet in force are printed alongside the current text and marked /Träder i kraft I:<date>/, and repealed sections are kept in place reading Har upphävts genom lag (YYYY:NNN), so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Transitional provisions are printed at the foot under Övergångsbestämmelser, but only for those amending Acts that have them.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: The Ändrad line names the last amendment incorporated. It is not a sweep date and must not be recorded as a consolidation cut-off: it says nothing about when the page was last checked against the statute book. The consolidations are unofficial - the authentic text is the Svensk författningssamling as published by the Government Offices - and riksdagen prints a link to the Government Offices' own full text beside each record. An amending Act's own entry-into-force date is usually not on the page at all: where the Act has no transitional provisions, the date has to be read in the SFS as published. Where a section exists in several future versions the page prints them all, so an article number alone does not identify the text in force. The site is a Next.js application serving the whole statute inside the initial HTML; the extraction service returns nothing at all for some of the larger documents, which has to be met with a direct fetch rather than read as an absence.

    We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source

  • administers
    Egen företagare

    Migrationsverket

    About this source

    The Swedish Migration Agency, which decides residence permits, work permits, visas and citizenship. Its site publishes, per application category, the conditions it applies, the documents it asks for, the fee, and the monetary thresholds that the Aliens Act and the Aliens Ordinance leave to it - the maintenance figure for students, the salary figure corresponding to the statutory percentage of the median wage, and the capital a self-employed applicant must hold. It carries a dated news archive that is the quickest way to learn an amending Act's commencement date, and a complete sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

    Standing: Applies the rule

    Cannot be cited for: It is the agency describing the law it applies, not the law. Where a page states a requirement that no instrument states - the 200,000 kronor a self-employed applicant must hold, the 51 per cent shareholding, the 700 kronor a day for a visitor - that is the agency's practice and must be cited as the agency's, never as the Aliens Act's. Its figures are dated by the year of application and move annually, so a figure quoted without its year is already wrong. The agency publishes no page at all for the self-support ground in chapter 5, section 5, third paragraph of the Aliens Act: its application menu has no category for it, which is a fact about the agency's presentation and not about the provision. News items are announcements rather than instruments and corroborate a date at best.

    We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source