I know that Norway isn´t part of the EU Sweden is, does anyone know of any restrictions for a non european to live and work in these countries? Obviously would need the relevant residency card I guess but would there be restrictions on getting that given that they are non european?
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Basically immigration laws have tighted up generally over the last 5-10 years due to large influxes of immigrants and movements of people within the EU Therefore unless you hold an EU/EFTA passport it is very difficult. Yes Sweden is EU and Norway not, but Norway does have an agreement with EFTA/EEA member states to accomodate the same freedoms and similar policies with regarding to EU citizens seeking work and thus the restrictions are as (or even) more restrictive You will either need to be (a) self-employed and show evidence of a thiving business (b) a highly skilled migrant with skills/experience which are in demand in Europe (and usually already receiving a high salary in your domestic country) or (c) sponsored by a company - and this is only normally done in the case that they cannot fulfil the job from the pool of labour within the EU or that you have specialist knowledge/experience Also in principle you will need to speak the language of the country you work in (although there are exceptions to this if the company is an International one whose working language is e.g. English) There are small differences but there generally the policies are very similar and restrictive for all EU countries, but I do not know about the non-EU ones. The best thing to do in order to get accurate info including viability & time is to contact the embassy of the country you are interested in. They can provide you the official information (and often a lot of this is online e.g. for the UK and Netherlands it is anyway)
