We would like to extend you a warm welcome to Sjóvar kommuna.

Our municipality offers a wide range of activities for both children, youth, adults, and senior citizens.

You will find our reception in the municipal office (kommunuskrivstova). If you have any queries to the town council you are welcome to visit the office or give us a call on tel. 47 27 27.

Moving to a new country can be exciting and enriching, but can also be challenging at times. It is not always easy to know who to contact for advice or guidance.

On the website Integration (integration.fo/newcomers), you will find more information on different topics that can be relevant for newcomers, including a direct link where you can ask for advice and guidance in relation to practical matters. You can also ask for an integration consultation with the Integration Officer, where you will discuss your personal background including where you are from, your educational level and work experiences, family situation and interests, and your plans in the Faroes.

For more information, please contact the Immigration Office (Útlendingastovan):

Durita Kastalag, Integration Officer
Phone: 3566099 / 357979
Email: duritak@vs.fo

Registration
All residents (not visitors or tourists) who receive for the first time a legal permit to stay in the Faroes must register at the municipality. For further information about applications and permits to stay, please visit www.immigration.fo.

The registration to Sjóvar Municipality takes place in the office at Skúlavegur 10, 490 Strendur opening hours are Monday to Friday 8.00-12.30.

If you are relocating to a new municipality in the Faroes, you must register again at your new municipality.

Registration
All residents (not visitors or tourists) who receive for the first time a legal permit to stay in the Faroes must register at the municipality. For further information about applications and permits to stay, please visit www.immigration.fo.

The registration to Sjóvar Municipality takes place in the office at Skúlavegur 10, 490 Strendur opening hours are Monday to Friday 9.00-12.30.

If you are relocating to a new municipality in the Faroes, you must inform us that you are moving and register again at your new municipality. 

If you are a Nordic citizen
If you are a citizen from Finland, Åland, Sweden, Norway, or Iceland, and you move to the Faroe Islands for longer than six months, you must register at your local municipality within five days of moving

Bring your passport.

If you are not a Danish or Nordic citizen

If you are not a Danish or Nordic citizen, and you move to the Faroe Islands from a non-Nordic country, you must register at your local municipality within five days of moving or within five days after receiving your Residence Permit and Work Permit.

Bring your passport and your Residence Permit.

You can get more information about the Residence Permit and application process on the webpage Nyidanmark
You can contact the Faroese Immigration Office (Útlendingastovan) if you need help or guidance with your Residence Permit application. info@útlendingastovan.fo

Child care and children’s recreation centres

The majority of parents in the Faroe Islands work outside of the home, and their children usually attend kindergarten (barnagarð) from the end of their parents’ parental leave around the ages 1year to 6 years.

The municipality offers care facilities to children from infancy until they finish second grade of primary school. Sjóvar kommuna offers a nursery (vøggustova), a kindergarten (barnagarður) and a children’s recreation centre (frítíðarstova).

Preparatory school (skúlabólkur)

Lítlifløttur also arranges a preparatory school for the children before entering first year of primary school, which is supervised by two educators and two teacher. The children attend preparatory school Mondays to Fridays from 10 am - 12.30 pm.

Children’s recreation centre (frítíðarstova)

All children in first and second grade of primary school may attend the recreation centre. After finishing school they are accompanied to the recreation centre by a chaperone.

Register for Childcare

Once you have registered with the municipal authorities and have received a p-number, you are included in the general Faroese health insurance scheme. The Faroese Social Security Office (Heilsutrygd) will send a letter to your registered address where they appoint a general practitioner to you.

You should contact your general practitioner in the case of illness, and if you need prescription medication, vaccinations, contraception and other regular healthcare services. If you need to be treated at an accident and emergency department (A&E) or receive hospital or specialist treatment, you will usually need a referral from your general practitioner.

You will need to make an appointment before seeing your general practitioner.

If you become ill or suffer an injury outside your own general practitioner’s regular opening hours, you can call the out-of-hours medical service at 1870.

If you suffer an urgent or life-threatening illness or injury, you should call the national emergency services at 112.

If you don’t speak Faroese, you are entitled to have a professional interpreter present or through the phone if the doctor deems this necessary for the consultation.

If you are covered by the national health insurance (Heilsutrygd), it will automatically subsidise part of your cost for dental treatment as an adult.

You are free to choose any dentist that receives new patients. The dentist will ascribe your check-up appointments at regular intervals. The local dentis is in Skála, "Tannfegin - Tannlæknastovan á Skála" tlf 441272 

Children and adolescents under the age of 18 receive free dental treatment. Children will often receive regular check-ups through the public-school system.

Emergency dental care for adults: call +298 31 45 44.

Please note that emergency consultations for adults are much more expensive than dental care provided during regular opening hours.

Children in the Faroe Islands attend nine years of compulsory education. Children normally start attending 1st grade in August of the year they turn 7 years old. Children may attend a public school, or an independent school.

Enrolment to first grade takes place at the end of January. The exact dates are advertised in the newspapers and on the municipality’s website.

e-mail scool: strandaskuli@skulin.fo

The municipality is part of the association Roðin, which can be reached on tel. 47 82 00 and email: rodin@rodin.fo.

Sjóvarlon:
The retirement home (eldrasambýlið) in Strendur, is supervised by this association.

The senior citizen day meetings take place in the pensioners’ house (pensionistahúsið) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 pm. The pensioners’ association arranges the meetings.

The evening school offers a variety of activities.

Undirhúsið  
is a senior club. The house is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 3 - 5 pm.

All are very welcome.

The swimming pool is in the school and the public opening hours are:

Mondays from 5 - 6 pm boys, from 6 - 7 pm girls, from 7 - 8 pm adults.
Wednesdays from 4 - 5 pm families with infant, from 5 - 6:30 families with children up to the age of 6 , from 6:30- 8 families with children in scool age. On Wednesdays the pool temperature is 30 degrees Celsius.

Saturdays from 9 - 10 am adults, from 10 am - 12 noon families. The swimming pool is closed during school holidays.

The handball club St.Í.F. has men’s and women’s teams for most ages and abilities.

Strálan is the rowing club in Strendur.

Indoor sports facilities:

Sjóvar kommuna has a social centre (bygdahús) with a large hall, that can be used for various ballgames and other activities. The hall is let by the municipality.

Outdoor sports facilities:

An astroturf football pitch is next to the social centre and kindergarten. 

The area also contains a playground with rock climbing walls and more.

Three FIFA pitches are in the municipality. one in Selatrað, one in "Innan Glyvur" and one "Inni í Bø" in Strendur.

Buses:

The public buses are operated by Strandferðslan and the timetable is available on their website www.ssl.fo under ‘440 Skálafjarðarleiðin’ and “leið 450”

The municipality has contracted a private company to transport students to and from the school in Strendur. The buses leave from Selatrað and Innan Glyvur and bring the students home after school.

Garbage (rusk):

Garbage bins are emptied once a week. Both the white and the grey bags are collected on the same day. Garbage bags are distributed to the private residencies in March and September. It is therefore important to notify the municipal office if you move addresses.

Solid waste containers and recycling: The municipality has a garbage station (ruskpláss) ‘á Hulki’ in Strendur, which also contains a recycling container for objects intended for the national charity Blái Krossur. Opening hours are Monday, Wedensday, Thursday 6-8 pm and Saterday from 2-6 pm

Garden waste: Garden waste such as leaves and branches must be disposed of in the old quarry (grótbrot) ‘vestanfyri Tangan’. Its opening hours are the same as the garbage station.