Six weeks have passed since we moved here, time flies! Did we make any progress in our quest? Well, to buy a house we need a Swedish bankaccount, because of all the recent money laundering scandals in the world. Even worse: to bid on a house we would need BankID, a system of identification that is coupled to your bankaccount. Sadly to this day we don’t have a Swedish bankaccount, but we’re getting close! To open a bankaccount which has BankID (and Swish), you need a Swedish ID-card. And to apply for an ID-card you need a ‘personnummer’, the famous Swedish identification number. Actually, when you don’t have a personnummer you’re nothing more but a tourist.
So, the first thing we applied for was a personnummer, which took 3 weeks. A couple of days later we applied for an ID-card, which took around 2 weeks, because of the holidays. After receiving it a couple of days ago we went to the local bank for opening our account. But of course this also will take two to three weeks! And then, finally, we’ll be able to buy our dream home… Which we haven’t spotted yet, but that’s another story 😉
In the meantime I have been able to send in the registration forms for the company I want to start here. And guess what? Next to my acupuncture practice and my qigong training I’ll also be taking up my work as photographer again! I’m really excited to welcome this old love into my working life!
