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Figures below are what we have quoted from official pages. “Not stated” means we have not recorded a quote yet — it is not a pass or fail.
For a person with foreign vocational training who needs extra education in Norway for it to be recognised.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a person admitted to a full-time religion or belief-based school such as a Bible school in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a person admitted to an upper secondary school in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople admitted to a folk high school in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople admitted to full-time study at a Norwegian university college or university.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople admitted to full-time study at a vocational school in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingAthletes and coaches who will take part in top-level sport in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople employed by an international company abroad who will carry out an assignment for its Norwegian branch.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingReligious leaders and teachers who will work for a religious community in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingResearchers with a master's degree who will do research in Norway funded by their own means rather than a Norwegian employer.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor people working on board Norwegian or foreign ships in Norwegian waters; the need for a permit depends on the ship type and citizenship.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople with vocational training, a degree or special qualifications who have a job offer from an employer in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingStudents in higher education abroad who will be trainees in Norway as part of their education.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingQualified skilled workers from countries with visa-free entry to Norway who want to look for skilled work there.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople who will do seasonal work or work as a holiday stand-in in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingYoung Australian citizens who want a longer holiday in Norway and to work during it.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor citizens of Canada who live in Canada, under the age limit, who want a longer holiday with work in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor citizens of Japan who live in Japan, under the age limit, who want a longer holiday with work in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor citizens of New Zealand under the age limit who want a longer holiday with work in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingQualified people who will run their own company in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingUnmarried partners who live with, or have a child with, a Norwegian or Nordic citizen.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople who are coming to Norway to marry a Norwegian or Nordic citizen.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingSpouses or registered partners of a Norwegian or Nordic citizen living in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a child over 18 who wants to move to parents who live in Norway, where the parent is a Norwegian or Nordic citizen, in set situations.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a child under 18 who wants to live with a parent in Norway who is from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingChildren who are minors and will live with a parent in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a child under 18 with no parents or carers at home who wants to join a full brother or sister in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a partner who has lived with, or has a child with, a person from outside the EU/EEA who lives in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a child under 18 who has lived with foster parents in the home country and wants to join them in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingOlder parents who want to move to an adult child living in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a parent who wants a longer visit to a child in Norway who is a Norwegian or Nordic citizen, and who will return home afterwards.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a couple who plan to marry in Norway, where the partner living there is from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor a spouse or registered partner of a person from a country outside the EU/EEA who lives in Norway.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingPeople whose mother or father was a Norwegian citizen when they were born.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wordingFor an adult who already holds a qualifying residence permit in Norway and wants to stay indefinitely.
Last checked 3 Nov 2026
Official points and wording59 more types from the official pages. Some have no quoted facts yet.
About this list. Adds 72 types beyond the 23 already held, from UDI's own pages (found through the UDI sitemap, because the section pages show their lists only after a citizenship is chosen): family joining a Norwegian, Nordic, non-EU/EEA or EU/EEA citizen, EU/EEA registration routes, permanent residence, more study types, au pair, working holiday for five nationalities, assignments, media, culture, Russian workers, seafarers, protection and trafficking permits. Not listed: pages that are not permits (the 14-day short work for humanitarian staff and performers, visa-free visits, university summer schools, Russian market traders); the visitor visa's sub-pages by purpose (family, business, tourism, culture) sit under the existing visitor visa; diplomat and military categories were skipped; Nordic nationals only report their move. Names and details can differ by citizenship, and some pages (for example the Argentina working holiday) say they are closed. No Svalbard category was found. Quoted facts (fees, income and funds requirements, waiting-time link) are on the main work, study, family and permanent residence routes. Not yet covered: most EU/EEA family routes, au pair, media, cultural, volunteer, Russian-worker, medical and local border routes, and offshore work (its page states no requirements of its own). UDI pages that show content only after a citizenship is chosen cannot be read by our checker.
For an EU/EEA national who will study and live in Norway for more than three months and must register.
1 official requirements recordedPeople who recently finished studies or research in Norway and want to look for skilled work there.
2 official requirements recordedFor an employee of a company abroad that has a contract with a Norwegian enterprise for an assignment in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor an EU/EEA national who will work and live in Norway for more than three months and must register.
1 official requirements recordedFor an employee of a company in another EU/EEA country sent on a temporary assignment in Norway.
1 official requirements recordedFor an employee of a company in an EU/EEA country, with legal residence there, sent on a temporary assignment in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a journalist employed by or on assignment for a foreign media institution in Norway for more than three months.
Not yet checked against your profileFor other media staff employed by or on assignment for a foreign media institution in Norway for more than three months.
Not yet checked against your profileFor people working on a mobile installation on the Norwegian continental shelf.
Not yet checked against your profileFor Russian citizens living in the Barents region who work in Norway and keep living there.
Not yet checked against your profileFor Russian citizens from the Barents region with a job offer in Northern Norway.
Not yet checked against your profilePeople taking part in an agricultural exchange programme run by specific Norwegian organisations.
Not yet checked against your profileFor citizens of Andorra under the age limit who want a longer holiday with work in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor citizens of Argentina; the page says the 2026 quota is full and applications are closed.
Not yet checked against your profileFor an EU/EEA national who will be self-employed and live in Norway for more than three months and must register.
1 official requirements recordedFor a skilled self-employed person whose company is abroad and who has an assignment in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child over 18 who wants to join a parent in Norway who is from a country outside the EU/EEA, in set situations.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child under 18 whose parent was granted an independent residence permit after the death of a spouse or cohabiting partner.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child under 18 with no carers at home who wants to join a full brother or sister in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child or grandchild over 21 who needs financial support from a parent or grandparent who is an EU/EEA national in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child or grandchild under 21 moving to a parent or grandparent who is an EU/EEA national in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a partner from outside the EU/EEA who lives with an EU/EEA national in Norway, under set conditions.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a person who is an established part of the household of an EU/EEA national living in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a family member with serious health problems who needs personal care from an EU/EEA national living in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a parent or grandparent who needs financial support from a child or grandchild who is an EU/EEA national in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a spouse or registered partner from outside the EU/EEA of an EU/EEA national who lives in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor another family member who is supported financially by an EU/EEA national living in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor family of a Norwegian citizen who lived together with them in another EU/EEA country.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a foster child under 18 who wants to join foster parents in Norway who are from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Not yet checked against your profileFor other relatives; allowed only where UDI finds strong humanitarian reasons in the individual case.
1 official requirements recordedFor other relatives; allowed only where UDI finds strong humanitarian reasons in the individual case.
1 official requirements recordedFor an older parent who wants to move to an adult child in Norway who is from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a parent of a child under 18 who lives in Norway, where the child is from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a parent of a child under 18 who lives in Norway, where the child is a Norwegian or Nordic citizen.
2 official requirements recordedFor a parent who wants a longer visit to a child in Norway who is from a country outside the EU/EEA.
Not yet checked against your profileFor an EU/EEA national who wants to live with a host family in Norway, helping with housework or childcare.
Not yet checked against your profileThe au pair scheme closed on 15 March 2024; the page explains who could still get an initial permit.
Not yet checked against your profileFor UK citizens and their family members with a permit under the Norway-UK separation agreement, to renew or apply for permanent residence.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a few special cases such as athletes, creative artists and culture disseminators whose stay serves cultural aims.
Not yet checked against your profileFor an EU/EEA national with their own funds who will live in Norway for more than three months.
1 official requirements recordedFor an EU/EEA national who has lived in Norway long enough to apply for a permanent right of residence.
1 official requirements recordedFor permit holders who will live outside Norway for more than two years and want to keep their permanent residence permit.
Not yet checked against your profileFor citizens of countries outside the EU/EEA who have an offer of medical treatment from an institution in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor a participant hired by a Norwegian partner of the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (Norec).
Not yet checked against your profileFor a child under 18 who holds a qualifying residence permit in Norway and wants to stay indefinitely.
2 official requirements recordedFor travellers without a visa who have very important and unexpected reasons to travel to Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor people living within 30 km of the Norwegian-Russian border who want to visit the Norwegian border area.
Not yet checked against your profileFor close family of an EU/EEA national, who need a visa, travelling with or visiting that person in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profilePeople who need a visa and plan to visit Norway for a short stay, for example as a tourist or to see family.
Not yet checked against your profileListed with official links only. For help with a protection claim, contact the official service or a regulated adviser.
For asylum seekers who want permission to work while their application is processed.
Not yet checked against your profilePeople who are persecuted, or fear persecution or inhumane treatment, in their home country.
Not yet checked against your profileFor parents who have applied for or been given protection and want it also for a child born in Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor people who already hold a residence permit in Norway and also apply for protection.
Not yet checked against your profileFor spouses, cohabitants and children of a refugee in Norway, who apply for refugee status after arriving.
Not yet checked against your profileAsylum cannot be sought from abroad; the UN refugee agency proposes resettlement refugees to Norway.
Not yet checked against your profileFor victims of human trafficking where the police confirm they have broken ties and reported the perpetrators.
Not yet checked against your profileFor presumed victims of human trafficking who accept the help offered.
Not yet checked against your profileFor victims who have testified as an injured party or made a statement in criminal proceedings on human trafficking.
Not yet checked against your profileFor people with a family immigration permit who have been abused by a spouse or cohabitant, and their children.
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