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.
On this page, we use the words 'reference person' and 'applicant'
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.
A reference person who is registered as unmarried in the Norwegian population register does not need to submit confirmation of marital status or notarially certified self-declaration.
Some reference persons must provide additional documentation on divorce:
You who are the reference person, must provide documentation from the country in which you previously married indicating that your previous marriage has been dissolved there if:
As documentation that previous marriages have been dissolved abroad, the UDI accepts:
If you cannot obtain documentation from abroad that your previous marriage is dissolved there, you must write an explanation the applicant can provide.
This requirement applies only if the reference person has previously been married to a person from the same country as you, AND the previous spouse received a residence permit for family immigration with the reference person.
Suppose this applies to the reference person in your case. In that case, you must provide documentation that the previous marriage of the reference person's previous marriage is dissolved aborad, even if it is registered dissolved in Norway.
You must document that the reference person has an income of at least
NOK 320 274 per year pre-tax
now. In addition, the reference person’s income last year must have been at about the same level. The reference person cannot have received any financial assistance from NAV (økonomisk sosialhjelp) during the last 12 months. Please check the income requirements, what kind of income that counts and whether you can be exempted from any of the requirements at www.udi.no/incomerequirement.
In the contract/confirmation it must be clear how long the employment will last and the scope (full time or part-time) of the employment. If your work is temporary, you should enclose a confirmation from your employer if it is possible to prolong your contract.
The reference person must have earned at least
NOK 320 274 per year pre-tax
.
You only need to meet this requirement if
you do not have children together, and have been living together for less than two years, or
you have children together, but the children were conceived after the reference person moved to Norway. (You do not need to fulfill the requirement if the child was conceived while you both had residence permits in Norway), and
If you have previously handed in this documentation to the UDI, you do not have to hand it in again.
Courses: If you have courses in the profession, you can attach documentation to this as a supplement to the work certificates. The documentation must contain information about the duration/number of hours and the content of the courses.
You only need to document work experience in addition to, or instead of, documentation of education if the work experience should be part of the assessment of whether or not you are a skilled worker.
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.