Birth registration will not routinely trigger Swedish police reports
Registering a newborn in Sweden will not routinely lead Skatteverket to report the child or parents to police under the new information duty, the tax agency says.
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A birth notification usually lacks enough information to assess whether a child or parent has the right to stay in Sweden. Skatteverket says it will not ask for residence-status information because it is not needed to register the birth.
If a guardian is population registered, the child is registered from birth regardless of the child’s or parent’s residence right. Otherwise, the agency records limited birth details and does not collect the parent’s location.
The wider duty took effect on 13 July and requires six authorities to inform police when they can assume someone lacks the right to stay. Skatteverket expects it to apply mainly in work-crime and organised-crime cooperation, and possibly residence-control investigations.
Parliament adopted the change on 15 June. The clarification addresses concerns that notifying Skatteverket of a birth could become indirect reporting of undocumented parents.
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