Even if you been emigrated from Sweden for many years, you now can be read back in the Swedish Personal Address Register, SPAR, again.

The Swedish State Personal Address Register, SPAR, is a public register that includes all people who are registered in Sweden, regardless of citizenship. Government agencies, banks, insurance companies, credit reference agencies and many other companies update their customer registers via SPAR.

Anyone who is not included in SPAR will often receive the comment "we can't find you" when contacting companies and authorities in Sweden after the personal identity number has been entered. Now it is possible to be re-read, even for those who have emigrated for many years. 

"The fact that the rules have been changed is an important milestone for all expatriate Swedes, it is especially welcome that expatriate Swedes who have been discharged for a long time may now wish to be re-enrolled in SPAR," says Swedes Worldwide's (SVIV) Secretary General Cecilia Borglin. 

Kerstin Nicholson,  representative of SVIV here in Sarasota, has tested the system. "I was discharged in 1973 but it wasn't a problem. It was as simple as it gets, just go to www.statenspersonadressupgifter.se/privatperson. There is a section for Emigrants with more information, where you fill in the information. The easiest way is if you have BankID, but there are web forms as well. Of course, it would be fantastic if you could enter a Swedish address during longer stays in Sweden as well, e.g. over the summer, but unfortunately that is not possible."