12. What are your rights? (Access, correction, deletion and appeal)


If you are registered in the immigration authorities’ registers, you have the following rights pursuant to the Personal Data Act.

Access

You have a right to be given information about

  • what specific personal data we are processing about you
  • from where these were obtained
  • to what purpose they are being used (tasks)
  • whether they have been disclosed to others and if so, to whom

Please fill in our access request form in order to ask for this information.

Correcting errors

If you discover that UDI has registered incorrect, outdated or incomplete information about you, you have a right to have this corrected or updated

Right of appeal

If you believe that UDI does not process your personal data in the way required by the law, you can appeal to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. Information about application procedures is available on the Data Protection Authority’s website.  (external website)

Deletion of personal data

Personal data stored in the Immigration Database is required for UDI to carry out its tasks, for scientific and historical research, for statistical purposes and for archival purposes, and as a general rule you will not be entitled to delete these, cf. privacy regulation, article 17, no. 3.