You must hand in these documents with your application for a residence permit (Immigration Regulation section 8-10) Checklist for you who had one parent who was a Norwegian citizen when you were born
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How to use the checklist
Underneath is a list of the documents you need to submit when you apply for family immigration. Some of the documents you the applicant have to get and others the reference person need to get.
- Print the list.
- Mark every submitted document in the check list
- Sign the last page.
- You as the applicant should then submit this checklist, the questionnaire and copies of all the relevant documents in person. You must also bring the original documents.
Application documents
The signature form is the attachment you received via email when you registered your application online. Please print it and bring it with you. If you are handing in your application at a Danish embassy, please bring a filled-out application form instead. (www.udi.no/forms)
You can use this form Form for granting Power of Attorney, pdf, 710 kB (pdf, 199 kB) (www.udi.no/forms) or the form you received by email when you registered your application in the Application Portal.
Identity documents for the applicant
- If you hand in your application in Norway, you normally only need to show your passport and hand in the copies.
- If you hand in your application abroad, you must normally hand in both your passport and the copies. If you need your passport back before you receive an answer to your application, please contact the place where you hand in the application.
Documentation which shows that your mother or father was a Norwegian citizen when you were born
This can be documented with your parent’s passport at the time of your birth or your birth or baptismal certificate if your parents' citizenship is stated on the certificates. Moreover, it can be documented by a decision on change of citizenship for you or your parents.
Documentation of income (please choose the category below which the applicant belongs to)
If the applicant has a job offer
If the applicant works
If the applicant receives student loans/grants
If the applicant has personal savings
If the applicant is self-employed
If the applicant receives a pension, benefit(s) or other regular, periodic payments
Financial guarantee (third party guarantee)
As a rule, a person applying for a permit pursuant to the Immigration Regulations § 8-10 must meet the subsistence requirement. If the applicant does not have an income, subsistence may in exceptional cases be secured by a third party guarantee. In such a case, the guarantor must document that he or she has enough income.
Originals and copies of the documents
Requirements for documents from Norway
You do not need to bring originals of documents from Norwegian authorities. You are only to hand in a copy of the document. The copy does not need to be stamped.
Requirements for documents from other countries than Norway
- You must bring the original documents and your passport. If you apply from Norway, you must present the original documents and your passport. If you apply from abroad, you must submit the original documents and your passport. These documents will be checked by the embassy and will be returned to you at the same place as you submitted the application.
- The original documents must carry an apostille stamp. You can find information on which office you need to visit to get an apostille stamp in this list (external website). No apostille stamp is required on your passport.
- You must also bring copies of all the documents and your passport.
- If you hand in your application abroad, the copies must be stamped by the authorities in your country, or by a notarius publicus.
- If you hand in your application to the police in Norway you do not need to have the copies stamped. Please note that the original documents must still have an apostille stamp even if you hand in the application to the police in Norway.
- No stamping is required on the copies of your passport.
- If your documents are in a different language than Norwegian or English, they must be translated to Norwegian or English by an authorised/certified translator. It must be stated on the translation who translated the document and when.
- You must also hand in a copy of the translations. If you hand in your application abroad, the copy of the translation must be stamped by the authorities in your country, or a notarius publicus.
- Do you have documents from different countries? Check at udi.no/apostille what you need to do to get documents from different countries certified.