Checklist for you who are applying for family immigration with your spouse (Immigration Act section 40) Checklist for family immigration with spouse

The cover letter is the attachment you received via e-mail when you registered your application online. Please print it and bring it with you. If it was not possible for you to apply online, please bring a filled-out application form. (www.udi.no/forms)

You can use this form Form for granting Power of Attorney (pdf, 677 kB) (www.udi.no/forms) or the form you received by email when you registered your application in the Application Portal.

You need to print this list of documents (this page on the Internet you are looking at right now). Tick the box for all the documents you hand in, and hand in this list together with all the documents you are going to hand in. Remember to sign on the print-out.

• 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. 

You can find the form here (pdf, 665 kB) (www.udi.no/forms). Remember to sign on the last page of the form.

You have to answer all the questions in the form as accurately as you can, even if some of the questions are not apt to your situation.

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.

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.

Are you uncertain whether the reference person meets the requirement for income? Check the requirements at www.udi.no/incomerequirement.

Self declaration which states that the reference person has not received social security benefits from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Organisation (NAV), pdf, 705 kB)

(www.udi.no/forms)

• If you have completed an education or a degree at a university or university college, you must hand in your diploma or other documentation which shows what education or degree you have completed.
• If you have completed a vocational training programme at upper secondary school level, you must hand in both a diploma and a transcript of your grades which shows 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. 

You must hand in documents which contain detailed information from your previous employers regarding how long you worked there, what training you were given, your work tasks and your qualifications. 

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 can use the form, Explanation why I cannot hand in one or more documents (pdf, 662 kB) (www.udi.no/forms), to explain why you can’t hand in one or more of the documents. Remember to sign the form.