If you have a permanent residence permit, the UDI can decide that your residence permit is no longer valid. It may mean that you are no longer allowed to live in Norway or that you will be granted a new residence permit and your residence period in Norway will restart.
If you lose your permanent residence permit, you also lose your Norwegian travel documents.
If we need more information about your case, the police or the UDI may invite you in for an interview.
If the UDI believes that you should lose your residence permit, you will receive advance notification from the UDI in which we ask you to explain your view of 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 on 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 (eksternt nettsted)
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, the UDI may decide that you will lose your residence permit. The information must be important to your case in order for the UDI to be legally allowed to decide that you lose your permit.
The UDI may also decide that you will lose your residence permit if you have not given us information that is important to your case.
The UDI may decide that you will lose your residence permit if you have given us incorrect information about your identity.
You can lose your permanent residence permit if you stay abroad for too long.
If you are going to stay outside Norway for more than two years and wish to keep your permanent residence permit, you must apply for this.
In very special circumstances you can keep the permanent residence permit even if you have stayed abroad for two years or more. You must fill these four requirements:
You must contact Norwegian authorities as soon as this is practically possible after you were unable to return against your will, and give information about your situation.
The exemption does not cover children who, against their will, have been unable to return or unmarried persons over the age of 18 who have been kept from returning by their parents or others.
If the UDI decides that you will lose your residence permit, you will receive a decision from the UDI. The decision will state why the 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 on 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 (eksternt nettsted)
If you wish to see the documents in your case, you must request access to the documents here.
The UDI will consider whether you can be granted a new permit, for example if:
If you 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.