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I am asking this because I have been told on the phone by an official employee that "it is forbidden for one to enter the country while their residence permit application is being processed."

Tourist visas are under the authority of the Schengen Visa Code and there's nothing there about the impossibility of entering a given country while your resident permit is pending. I therefore presume the employee in question simply misunderstood your question and pointed out that your visa is not valid until it's been processed by the Migrationsverket. Traveling on other visas is a wholly different situation.

Will entering negatively impact the evaluation of my application?

If you want to be extra-sure your application won't be affected, simply fly into Sweden from a different Schengen state. There's currently no centralized database of entries and exits from the Schengen area, so there's no (easy) way for Swedish officials to even know you were inside the country.

I am asking this because I have been told on the phone by an official employee that "it is forbidden for one to enter the country while their residence permit application is being processed."

Tourist visas are under the authority of the Schengen Visa Code and there's nothing there about the impossibility of entering a given country while your resident permit is pending. I therefore presume the employee in question simply misunderstood your question and pointed out that your visa is not valid until it's been processed by the Migrationsverket. Traveling on other visas is a wholly different situation.

I am asking this because I have been told on the phone by an official employee that "it is forbidden for one to enter the country while their residence permit application is being processed."

Tourist visas are under the authority of the Schengen Visa Code and there's nothing there about the impossibility of entering a given country while your resident permit is pending. I therefore presume the employee in question simply misunderstood your question and pointed out that your visa is not valid until it's been processed by the Migrationsverket. Traveling on other visas is a wholly different situation.

Will entering negatively impact the evaluation of my application?

If you want to be extra-sure your application won't be affected, simply fly into Sweden from a different Schengen state. There's currently no centralized database of entries and exits from the Schengen area, so there's no (easy) way for Swedish officials to even know you were inside the country.

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JonathanReez
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I am asking this because I have been told on the phone by an official employee that "it is forbidden for one to enter the country while their residence permit application is being processed."

Tourist visas are under the authority of the Schengen Visa Code and there's nothing there about the impossibility of entering a given country while your resident permit is pending. I therefore presume the employee in question simply misunderstood your question and pointed out that your visa is not valid until it's been processed by the Migrationsverket. Traveling on other visas is a wholly different situation.