What is the best way for my husband to get citizenship advice?

Hello,

You say during 1940s that is 9 years of period but if you know exactly when and where in Sweden he was born and what was his full name back then or his mothers full name and date of birth and birth place it is not hard to find out his Swedish birth information and identity.

Sweden is the first country which had been started social security number system so called "personnummer" in year 1947.

Even if he was born in 1940 and left Sweden in 1945 there had been a church birth registration system so called "församling" or "socken" before 1947 and "församling" is still mentioned in personal register of a person who registered in Sweden no matter the religion.

If you do not mind tell us his birth year and birth place we can guide you from there.

Cheers!

He was born in 1944 in Stockholm. Thanks!

Ok that means he has a personnummer although he may does not know it. But in year 1967 they have added one more figure to personnummer e.g my person nr look like this 19701227-???? my birthday plus 4 figurs but your husbands had been look like this 19440101-??? his birthday plus 3 figurs. That make a difficulty to fill any form. Then Stockholm is divided to 26 "kommuner" and 61 "Församlingar" so you must know exactly where in Stockholm i.e kommun and församling or at least one of them.

So when you have those details, his full name (birth name), birthday and more specifik birthplace as kommun you have to start with Swedish tax office Skattemyndigheten to check if he is still found in their records but they may will refer to so called "personuppgiftslagen" data protection act and refuse to leave any information unless your husband personally contact them.

If he does not found in Skattemyndighetens records https://skatteverket.se/privat/folkbokf … 00039.html he is found in kyrkoförsamling records https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/stockholms … ebbplatser if he is not their he is found in Riksarkivet https://sok.riksarkivet.se/kyrkoarkiv

When he finds his records then he can ask to get a complete personnummer with 4 figurs and register himself with a Swedish adress and then apply for "personbevis".

When he has personnummer, Swedish address and personbevis he can apply for the Swedish passport as anyone else who lives here.

This is a pretty unique case so you have to explain two three times for every official you come in contact with otherwise they will mislead you unintentionally. I think that may be the case with the wrong forms you have received from them.

All the best!

Now I have only answered to your question how to determine his Swedish identity and to approach this matter through that way since he has his birthright to be a citizen of Sweden. But there remains many other criteria such as dual citizenship issues, police reports from this county to that country and so on. All those could be resolved when you have determined his original Swedish identity and register himself in the country.

Thanks, amazing information!