If we need more information about your case, the police or UDI may invite you in for an interview.

If UDI believes that you should lose your residence permit, UDI will notify you in advance and ask you to explain your view on the case. You can receive legal assistance to write the reply and your legal fees will be covered.

If you receive advance notification or a decision concerning revocation, you have the right to have expenses for legal assistance covered. You must contact a lawyer yourself. See examples of how to do so here (external website)

If you wish to see the documents in your case, you must request access to the documents here.

If you have provided incorrect information in your case, UDI may decide that you should lose your residence permit. The information must be significantt to your case in order for UDI to be legally allowed to decide to revoke your permit.  

UDI may also decide that you should lose your residence permit if you have withheld information that is important to your case.

UDI may decide to revoke your residence permit if you have given us incorrect information about your identity.

UDI may decide that you are to lose you residence permit because you have stayed outside Norway for more than two consecutive years. This is called lapse.

It means that you will keep your permanent residence permit, but lose your advantages as a refugee.

UDI may decide to revoke your refugee status if you have visited or moved back to your home country.

UDI may decide that you will lose your refugee status if you have become a citizen of another country.

UDI may decide that you will lose your refugee status if the situation in your home country has changed. This is sometimes called termination.

UDI may decide that you will lose your refugee status if you have committed criminal acts in Norway.

If UDI decides that you will lose your residence permit, you will receive a decision from UDI. The decision will state why UDI is revoking your residence permit.

You can appeal the decision on revocation. See https://www.udi.no/ord-og-begreper/klage-pa-et-vedtak/#link-1009 for more information.

If you receive advance notification or a decision concerning revocation, you have the right to have expenses for legal assistance covered. You must contact a lawyer yourself. See examples of how to do so here (external website)

If you wish to see the documents in your case, you must request access to the documents here.

UDI will consider whether you can be granted a new permit, for example if:

• you have a particular connection to Norway
• there are strong humanitarian considerations in your case, or
• if you are protected against refoulement (return)

If your permit is not renewed, you must leave Norway. The decision states whether you must leave Norway, and what the deadline for leaving the country is.