You must hand in these documents with your application for a residence permit (Immigration Act section 41) Checklist for family immigration with cohabitant
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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.
On this page, we use the words 'reference person' and 'applicant'
- The reference person = the family member living in Norway.
- The applicant = the person who wants to move to Norway or continue living here and who needs a residence permit
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.
Documents about your family
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:
- you have previously been married to a person from the same country as the applicant, and
- your former spouse received a residence permit for family immigration with you
As documentation that previous marriages have been dissolved abroad, the UDI accepts:
- Divorce certificate or annulment certificate in the former spouse's home country or from the country where you and your previous spouse were married, or
- documentation from the former spouse's home country or the country where you and your former spouse married, showing that it is impossible to divorce or annul the marriage
If you cannot obtain documentation from abroad that your previous marriage is dissolved there, you must write an explanation the applicant can provide.
Documents to prove that the reference person is divorced from the previous marriage abroad
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.
- if the reference person was married in the home country of the previous spouse: Provide documentation from the home country of the previous spouse to explain why the reference person can't divorce or annul the marriage
- if the reference person was married in another country than the country the previous spouse is a citizen of: Provide documentation from the previous spouse’s home country and from the country where they married to explain why the reference person can't get a divorce or an annulment of the marriage
- if the previous marriage of the reference person is not registered in the previous spouse’s home country: Provide documentation showing that the reference person is not registered as married with the authorities of the previous spouse’s home country
If you have or are expecting a joint child
If you do not have, nor are expecting, a joint child
Documentation of the income of the reference person (please choose the cathegory which is relevant for the reference person)
You must document that the reference person has an income of at least
NOK 334 876 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.
Documents you must hand in if the reference person works
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.
Documents you must hand in if the reference person receives benefits from NAV
Documents you must hand in if the reference person is self-employed (sole proprietorship)
Documents you must hand in if they apply to the reference person’s current situation
The reference person must have earned at least
NOK 334 876 per year pre-tax
.
Documentation of the requirement for four years full time work or studies (the four year requirement)
You only need to meet this requirement if
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you do not have children together, and have been living together for less than two years, or
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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
- the reference person is not a Norwegian citizen, and came to Norway as a resettlement refugee, an asylum seeker, through family immigration, or was given a residence permit on the grounds of strong humanitarian considerations or a particular connection to Norway
Documentation which shows that the reference person has been in full time work or education in Norway for four years
If you already are in Norway, and wish to hand in your application in Norway
Please note! You do not have to hand in any documentation to show that you have the right to hand in your application in Norway if you
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- have a residence permit in Norway, or
- do not need a visa to visit Norway and have been here for less than 90 days when you hand in the application to the police, or
- have applied for asylum and are waiting for an answer. Please note! If you have received a rejection from the UDI, your request to stay in Norway until you have received an answer to your appeal cannot have been rejected.
If you are in Norway on a visitor’s visa (Schengen visa), you must hand in the following documents:
- If you have completed an education or a degree at an university college or university, or have completed a vocational training programme at upper secondary school level, you must submit a diploma and transcripts showing how long the education lasted, the level and the content.
- If you have taken education which you have not completed, you must hand in documentation which shows how long the education lasted, the level and the content.
If you have previously handed in this documentation to the UDI, you do not have to hand it in again.
- Work certificates: You must provide work certificates from previous employers that contain detailed information about:
- how long you worked there,
- what training you received,
- what work tasks you had and
- what qualifications you have.
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.
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.