Family member of a refugee

If you wish to apply for a refugee travel document, you will at the same time apply for refugee status.

If the family member you were granted family immigration with has been granted refugee status in Norway, you can also apply for refugee status. This is called 'derived refugee status'.
You can be granted refugee status because UDI assumes that you risk persecution in your home country as well.
Refugee status gives you the same rights as your family member. For example, you will be issued a refugee travel document.
You apply for refugee status and a refugee travel document at the same time. If your application is approved, you will be granted a residence permit on the grounds of protection and issued a refugee travel document.
We recommend that you apply when you arrive in Norway, but you may also apply later.
If you are over the age of 18, and you are in doubt as to whether you meet the requirements for derived refugee status, you should make sure you have a valid family immigration permit until you have received an answer to your application for a refugee status. If your family immigration permit is expiring soon, you should renew it.

You must be the spouse, cohabitant or child (under the age of 18) of a refugee who has been granted protection.
You must have been a family before the refugee left the home country (does not apply to children born at a later date).
You must have the same citizenship as the refugee.
You must want refugee status. If you are granted refugee status, you cannot visit your home country and you must hand in your passport from your home country.