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Personnummer Change Guide
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Contributors - Skylar Longridge, Charlie D'aniello, Noa Amo & anonymous sources
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Any info missing/needing to be updated? Email skylarlongridge@outlook.com
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This guide is split into sections below to provide what resources you need, where to go and any extra info
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The priority listings are to advise you on which order is best to pursue things to avoid any significant interruption of access to banking and the likes!
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! As per Article 16 of GDPR, entities must update your information "Without due delay".
Report to IMY/Finansinspektionen if any entities fail to update your data within 5 working days.
Do NOT take any excuses as a valid explanation for why such a change is taking a long time, this includes "we've never seen somebody change personnummer before"
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Specific info for overseas citizens in Sweden or Swedish Citizens overseas
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Skatteverket will honour a gender marker change that has been performed overseas, as long as you are a citizen of that respective nation or resident at the time of the change
(The latter can apply to Swedish citizens abroad)
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The primary sources that they refer to is a Passport or Population Register extract for a change. Note that some countries such as the UK do not have a Population Register.
Therefore, for countries such as the UK, it is only possible to use this overseas route if you are a British citizen.
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Primary source for this info - Change of Personnummer (In Swedish)
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If any further evidence is requested when you have shown SKV the new Passport, contact the Case Handler (Handläggare) with the above link as a point of reference
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Nationalities & Jurisdictions with passport gender marker changes accepted by Skatteverket
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United Kingdom - Only a Passport change is needed and not a GRC, a GRC only allows the change of Birth/Marriage/Death Certificates
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Switzerland
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Others will certainly exist, please email the address above with additional information
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DISCLAIMER - All the information made available here is subject to change and was accurate at the time of submission
This is a crowdsourced guide based on informations received by myself and others, your input for this guide is valuable!