1. If you have been issued a penalty notice or have a conviction, or if you have given incorrect information to the authorities or you have been arrested by the police without a residence permit, the Norwegian authorities will consider whether to expel you from Norway.
2. The police, or UDI, will send you a letter to inform you that UDI is considering whether you should be expelled. You will be informed about why we are considering having you expelled and about your rights to a lawyer and an interpreter.
3. If you believe that the information in the letter is incorrect, or if you have information that you believe UDI needs in order to consider your case, you must submit it to UDI within the deadline stated in the letter. You can also explain why you think that being expelled would be too severe or too great an intervention in your life seen in relation to the criminal offence.
4. UDI will consider your case and decide whether or not to expel you. You will receive a letter from UDI that will state whether you have been expelled and whether you are subject to a prohibition against entry, how long the prohibition against entry will be in force and how you can appeal.

• After you have left Norway, you can apply to have the prohibition against entry lifted.
• Normally, you cannot apply for this until after one year if you are an EU/EEA national, or two years if you are a national of a country outside the EU/EEA area. 

If you have been expelled from Norway for a period of two or five years, and you have children in Norway with Norwegian citizenship, residence permit or right of residence according to the EU/EEA regulations, you can apply for family immigration within six months of the date when the prohibition against entry expires. You must fulfil the requirements for a new residence permit, except for the requirement of not being subject to a prohibition against entry, at the time UDI makes a decision in the case of family immigration. Although a new permit can be granted before the prohibition against entry expires, you cannot travel to Norway and other Schengen countries until after the prohibition against entry has expired.