Accommodation while applying for asylum

Last updated: 4/6-2025

Once you have applied for asylum in Sweden, you will be assigned a place in accommodation provided by the Swedish Migration Agency. You are entitled to financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency while you live in accommodation for asylum seekers. If you arrange your own accommodation, you will not usually be entitled to support. You can learn more about the rules here.

You will be allocated accommodation

Once you have applied for asylum, you will be assigned a place in accommodation provided by the Swedish Migration Agency. You are entitled to financial support (daily allowance) from the Swedish Migration Agency while you live in accommodation for asylum seekers.

Accommodation is often a room shared with others of the same sex. If you have arrived with your family, you will be allocated your own room.

You are not entitled to benefits if you arrange your own accommodation

If you arrange your own accommodation instead of accepting the accommodation offered by the Swedish Migration Agency, you will normally not be entitled to financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency. This applies from 1 March 2025.

Inform the Swedish Migration Agency of your address

If you live in accommodation you have arranged yourself, you must notify the Swedish Migration Agency of your address. If you fail to do so, and the Swedish Migration Agency is unable to contact you, your asylum application may be cancelled and you will no longer have the status of asylum seeker, nor will you be entitled to financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency. You must then leave Sweden.

Did you apply for asylum before 1 March 2025?

If you applied for asylum before 1 March 2025 and currently live in accommodation you have arranged yourself, the Swedish Migration Agency will contact you to offer you a place in accommodation for asylum seekers. You must move into accommodation for asylum seekers by 31 August 2025 or you will lose your entitlement to financial support.

Accommodation during the asylum application period