Family immigration with a Norwegian or Nordic citizen (cohabitant)

Conditions you must meet

• Both of you are over 18Stated only on the cohabitant route — the spouse route has no 18-year floor. It sits alongside the separate 24-year requirement below; both appear in UDI's own list.
• You are going to live together in Norway
• Meet ONE of the two qualifying bases belowTHE STRUCTURAL POINT OF THIS ROUTE. UDI writes 'one of the following two requirements', so the two entries beneath are alternatives, not a joint test. This entry carries the obligation; the two routes are recorded as not-individually-required so the page cannot imply an applicant needs both.
• Both of you are at least 24 years oldSeparate from, and additional to, the 18-year floor above. Applies to both of you, not only the applicant. Exemption is possible — see below.
• Applicant: not subject to a prohibition against entry to Norway or SchengenA Schengen-wide entry ban blocks this permit, not only a Norwegian one.
• Reference person in Norway: income of at least NOK 436,957 per year pre-taxNOK 436,957 per year pre taxTHE SPONSOR'S OBLIGATION, NOT THE APPLICANT'S. Three tests at once: the year ahead, the year already past, and the whole processing period. UDI states the amount 'is adjusted in may each year' — the authority declaring its own figure perishable.

Documents you must provide

• Applicant: proof of identity, usually a valid passport

Government fees

• Applicant: application fee (first-time application, adult)NOK 11,900Listed under 'requirements for the applicant' on this route — the spouse route puts the same fee under 'requirements for both'. UDI states the fee is owed but publishes the amount separately; NOK 11,900 is the first-time adult band.

Also stated by the authority

Not requirements in themselves. These are alternatives, exemptions, rights and warnings the authority publishes alongside the requirements — quoted here because they can change what applies to you.

• Basis 1: lived together at least two years, and neither of you married to anyone elseOne of two ALTERNATIVES. Two clauses ride along: neither partner may be married to someone else, and cohabitation completed in Norway only counts if both had legal residence at the time.
• Basis 2: you have, or are expecting, a child together — and both are unmarried or divorcedThe other ALTERNATIVE, and note that expecting a child qualifies, not only having one. The marital-status clause is stricter than Basis 1's: both must be unmarried or divorced.
• Exemption from the 24-year age requirement may be possibleNOT a requirement, and deliberately not a rule. UDI decides case by case, weighing which countries the couple's — and their parents' — backgrounds are from, against a list it calls non-exhaustive and subject to change. The criteria are cited, not encoded.