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bankid.com: "To get a BankID, you must have a Swedish personal identity number"

What do non-citizens use in Sweden to get around?

The "everything apps" of places that have them aren't usually restricted to only citizens (though some admittedly have shitty UIs for non-citizens)






Everyone who's a permanent resident in Sweden gets a personal identity number, it's not tied to your citizenship. That would be illegal anyway, at least for citizens of other EU countries.

There's a lower-level, different number, which is less powerful, but easier to get.


> Everyone who's a permanent resident in Sweden gets a personal identity number, it's not tied to your citizenship

Same in Denmark too. You get a "CPR" number, and can login to most government services (as well as some commercial ones) with "MitID" (my ID). It's quite convenient. I can even use my MitID to buy alcohol without having to interact with another human being in Rema 1000 using their self-checkout app.

Ireland—where I moved from—has a similar "PPS" number that all residents can get, although the online aspect is not nearly as well integrated as it is here in Denmark; it's slowly improving.




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