Visas are not required by everyone entering Norway. Here, you will find an overview of the nationals who are exempt from the visa requirement and the requirements you must meet.
Requirements for nationals who are not subject to the visa requirement
If you are exempted from the visa requirement to Norway, you may stay inside the Schengen area for up to 90 days during any period of six months. Your stay can be for 90 consecutive days, or divided into several stays. The six-month period starts on the day of your first entry into the Schengen area. A new six-month period starts immediately after the expiry of the previous one, thereby allowing you another stay in the Schengen area of up to 90 days. However, although your stay will stretch from one six-month period to the next, you may never stay inside the Schengen area for more than 90 days each time. It is your own responsibility to make sure that you are not in breach of this requirement.
There are also requirements for nationals who are not subject to the visa requirement:
- You must have the finances to be able to cover your stay in Norway. As a rule, you are required to have NOK 500 for each day of your stay in Norway. The amount is slightly less if you are going to stay with family or friends.
- You must be able to return to your home country, or to the country in which you have a residence permit.
Exemption for nationals of Schengen states
Nationals of Schengen states can stay in Norway for up to 90 days without applying for a visa. This also applies to foreign nationals who have residence permits in one of the Schengen states.
More information about the Schengen Agreement
Exemption for nationals of countries with which Norway has a visa exemption agreement
Exemption to the visa requirement also applies to nationals of countries that have visa exemption agreements. Some of these countries are also covered by the Schengen Agreement. Nationals from countries with exemption agreements can stay in Norway for up to 90 days. Norway has visa exemption agreements with the following countries:
A: Andorra, Albania (holders of biometric passports), Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria
B: Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda (BDTC passport), Bosnia and Herzegovina (holders of biometric passports), Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria
C: Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic
D: Denmark
E: El Salvador, Estonia
F: Finland, France
G: Germany, Greece, Guatemala
H: Honduras, Hong Kong (SAR passports and BNO pasports), Hungary
I: Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy
J: Japan
K: Republic of Korea
L: Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
M: Macau (SAR passport), Macedonia (holders of biometric passports), Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro (holders of biometric passports)
N: The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua
P: Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal
R: Romania
S: San Marino, Serbia (holders of biometric passports), Seychellene, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, Sweden, Switzerland
T: Taiwan (holders of Taiwanese passports that contain an ID card number),
U: The UK, Uruguay, the USA
V: The Vatican City State, Venezuela
Exemption for persons with diplomatic, service and special passports
If you have a diplomatic, service or special passport, you are exempt from the visa requirement if you come to Norway on an official assignment. This applies to persons with the following types of passport:
- Albanian diplomatic passport (only applies to accredited ambassadors to Norway and their spouses and children)
- Bolivian diplomatic and service passport
- United Arab Emirates diplomatic and special passport
- Philippine diplomatic, service and special passport
- Macedonian diplomatic and service passport
- Moroccan diplomatic, service and special passport
- Pakistani diplomatic and service passport
- Romanian diplomatic and service passport
- Russian diplomatic passport (only applies to accredited ambassadors to Norway and their spouses and children)
- South African diplomatic and service passport
- Thai diplomatic and service passport
- Tunisian diplomatic passport
- Turkish diplomatic, service and special passport
- Civil servants on official assignments travelling with a Laissez-Passer, a travel document issued by the UN.
Other exemptions to the visa requirement
The following persons are also exempt from the visa requirement:
- Persons with resident permits or permanent residence permits (settlement permits) in Norway. The permit must be stamped in the person’s travel document.
- Persons with refugee travel documents issued by the authorities in Malta, Ireland, Liechtenstein, the UK or Switzerland.
- Persons with British passports with unlimited rights to enter and stay in the UK.
- Persons who have a British ’Emergency Travel Document’ (emergency passport) when in transit in Norway, and the emergency passport states that the journey’s destination is the UK.
- Persons who have a German ’Reiseausweis als Passersatz zur Rückkehr in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ (emergency passport) when in transit in Norway, and the emergency passport states that the journey’s destination is Germany.
- Persons with travel documents for refugee seamen issued by Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Germany, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, or the UK.
- Persons with identity cards for seamen issued by states that have ratified no 108 or 185 of the ILO Convention, when he or she takes up or leaves a position on a ship in a Norwegian port, or is a member of a ship’s crew and wishes to visit the port in which the ship is docked during shore leave.
- Persons with aviation certificates, when the holder travels to Norway and stays in the realm in connection with international aviation work.
- Persons who have a Philippine ’Seafarer’s Identification and Record Book’ and/or a Philippine passport, used when the person takes up a position on a ship in a Norwegian port.
- Recognised refugees, stateless persons and other persons without citizenship who reside in an EU country and who have travel documents issued by that country.
- School pupils who require a visa and live in an EU country that has implemented Council Decision 94/795, when the pupil takes part in school trips that are accompanied by teachers from the pupil’s school.
Further information
If you have further questions on this topic, you can contact your nearest Norwegian embassy or consulate or the UDI’s Information Service for Applicants.
