Need to move your pet to Stockholm, Sweden (ARN)?

Our Stockholm, Sweden pet shipping services include:

• Door to door transport, both international and domestic
• Assistance with health certificates, import certificates, and other travel documents.
• USDA endorsement of all relevant documents where required
• Airline approved flight kennels provided with personalized labels, identification and emergency notification instructions
• Customs clearance and delivery to your home
• Local pet taxi service to and from the airport, your home, veterinarian or kennel/boarding facility – available in the US and Sweden.
• Travel consultation and cargo flight reservations

We will inform you of your pet’s full itinerary before the trip and we will update you as your pet travels to or from Stockholm, Sweden (ARN).

Shipping a pet to Stockholm

Sweden applies the European Union’s pet travel rules to dogs, cats and ferrets arriving from the United States: identification by microchip, a valid rabies vaccination, and an EU health certificate issued by a USDA-accredited veterinarian and endorsed by USDA before travel (APHIS: pet travel from the United States to Sweden).

Paperwork and Veterinary Requirements

Microchip

Must be implanted before any rabies vaccination counts.

• A working microchip has to be in place before the pet receives its rabies vaccination for travel to the EU, and the veterinarian scans the chip before giving the vaccine.
• ISO-compliant chips are usually 15 digits long and meet ISO 11784 and 11785.
• With a non-ISO chip, either travel with a compatible scanner or have a second, ISO-compliant chip implanted; list both numbers on the health certificate.
• EU rules void a rabies vaccination given before microchipping, or given without the chip being scanned first.

Rabies vaccination

• Rabies vaccines must be given by an authorized veterinarian.
• After a primary vaccination, the pet waits at least 21 days, or the manufacturer’s recommended immunity period, before travel; some manufacturers recommend 30 days.
• A primary rabies vaccination given in the United States counts as valid for one year even when a 3-year vaccine was used, so a booster is due within 12 months; any lapse resets the pet to “primary.”
• A current booster travels immediately, with no 21-day wait, as long as the primary vaccination is also listed on the certificate.

EU health certificate

• Non-commercial moves (the owner travels with the pet, or an authorized person transports the pet while the owner travels within five days before or after it, confirmed by a written declaration) use the EU non-commercial certificate, issued through VEHCS by the accredited veterinarian and endorsed by USDA within 10 days of the pet’s arrival in the EU.
• Moves that do not meet those conditions, such as a pet that flies unaccompanied without an authorized person traveling within five days of the owner, more than five pets, or a pet that changes owners in the EU, are treated as commercial and require an examination by a USDA-accredited veterinarian within 48 hours of leaving the United States. A movement of more than five pets can still count as non-commercial when it is for competitions, exhibitions or sporting events (including training for them), with written evidence of registration and each animal over six months old (European Commission).
• New certificate forms took effect on October 1, 2026 for non-commercial movements and take effect on October 17, 2026 for commercial movements, under EU legislation 2026/131 and 2026/848.
• For Sweden, USDA must ink-sign and emboss the certificate; the veterinarian’s electronic signature is accepted, but the original ink endorsement is required.

Entry rules change without notice.

Airport Information

Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN) is the main international airport serving Stockholm, Sweden. It is operated by Swedavia; the Stockholm Arlanda Airport official site also carries guidance for travelling with animals.