Exceptions for income requirements when applying for family immigration with a refugee in Norway
If you apply for family immigration with someone who has been granted protection (asylum), there are two deadlines you must meet to remain exempt from the income requirement: a deadline for registering your application and a deadline for submitting it.
If you are the spouse, cohabitant or child of a person who has been granted protection in Norway, you can be granted family immigration without any income requirement on the person you want to join in Norway. But the requirement will only be waived if you adhere to both deadlines.
You must meet two deadlines:
- Within 6 months of the date of your family member's decision letter (i.e. the letter stating that protection was granted):
- the application for family immigration must be registered online via udi.no
- the application fee of NOK 10 500 must be paid
- Within one year of the date of your family member's decision letter:
- you must meet up in person at a Norwegian foreign mission or an application centre to hand in all your documents
Remember that the application will not be considered as submitted until you show up and hand in the necessary documents.
If you miss these deadlines, your family member will have to meet an income requirement in order for family immigration to be possible.
If your family member was granted protection in Norway before 1 August 2017 other rules apply.