When a child of foreign parents is born in Norway, the parents must apply for a residence permit for the child. This is to be done as early as possible following the birth.

The type of residence permit you may apply for on your child's behalf depends on the type of Norwegian residence permit you and the child's other parent hold.

Select the alternative that suits you as the child's parents:

If both parents have been granted collective protection

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child.

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

If you are living in an asylum reception centre you must present the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital to those working at the centre. The asylum reception centre will send it to its respective UDI regional office, and UDI will register an application for the child.

If you do not live in an asylum reception centre, you are to visit the local police station where you live to hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

Family immigration

You can apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child.

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

If neither the mother's nor the father's residence permit forms the basis for a permanent residence permit, then the child's permit will not form the basis for permanent residence either.

If one parent has been granted protection (asylum), and the other parent has been granted collective protection

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection for family members of refugees (derived refugee status)

You may apply for protection for family members of refugees (derived refugee status) on behalf of the child.

If the child is granted derived refugee status, he or she will be issued a refugee travel document (green). The child will not be able to visit the parents' home country.

If the parents lose their refugee status at a later point in time, the child will lose its refugee status as well.

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

In order to apply you must visit the local police station where you live and hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

Family immigration

You can apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child.

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

One of the parents has protection status (asylum), and one of the parents is an EU/EEA citizen:

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child.

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

In order to apply you must visit the local police station where you live and hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

The registration scheme for EU/EEA nationals and applications for a residence card for family members of EU/EEA nationals

Because one or both of the child's parents hold citizenship in an EU/EEA country, it is not necessary to apply for a residence permit for the child, but you must register the child with the police or apply for a residence card on the child's behalf. This applies also even if the child was born in Norway and has been issued a Norwegian personal number.

• If the child is a citizen of an EU/EEA country, you may register the child via the registration scheme for EU/EEA nationals. Please note that the child must have its own passport before you can attend an appointment with the police.
• If the child is a citizen of a country outside the EU/EEA, you may apply for the child to receive a residence card as a family member of EU/EEA nationals. Please note that the child must have its own passport before you can attend the appointment with the police.

There is no deadline for registering your child/applying for a residence card for children under the EU/EEU regulations. UDI recommends registering children or applying for a residence card on their behalf as soon as they have a passport.

Family immigration

You may apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child.

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

One of the parents has protection status (asylum), and the other parent has permanent residence (on the original basis of refugee status):

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection for family members of refugees (derived refugee status)

You may apply for protection for family members of refugees (derived refugee status) on behalf of the child.

If the child is granted derived refugee status, he or she will be issued a refugee travel document (green). The child will not be able to visit the parents' home country.

If the parents lose their refugee status at a later point in time, the child will lose its refugee status as well.

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child.

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

In order to apply you must visit the local police station where you live and hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

Family immigration

You may apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

If the parents are granted permanent residence

If both parents

• are granted a permanent residence permit or Norwegian citizenship before the child reaches one year of age, or
• fulfil the requirements for permanent residence or Norwegian citizenship and submit their applications for a permanent residence permit or Norwegian citizenship to the police before the child reaches one year of age

then it is also possible to apply for a permanent residence permit for your child. You must submit your child's application before the child reaches one year of age.

One of the parents has collective protection status, and the other parent has permanent residence (not based on refugee status):

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

In order to apply you must visit the local police station where you live and hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

Family immigration

You may apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

If the parents have permanent residence

If both parents

• have been granted a permanent residence permit or Norwegian citizenship before the child reaches one year of age, or
• fulfil the requirements for permanent residence or Norwegian citizenship and submit their applications for a permanent residence permit or Norwegian citizenship to the police before the child reaches one year of age

then it is also possible to apply for a permanent residence permit for your child. You must submit your child's application before the child reaches one year of age.

The mother has collective protection status but the father's identity is unknown or he resides outside Norway:

The following information explains the various possibilities you have for your child:

Protection (asylum)

You may apply for protection (asylum) for your child

If the child is eligible for collective protection, we will grant collective protection to the child. Read more about applying for protection.

If you are living in an asylum reception centre you must present the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital to those working at the centre. The asylum reception centre will send it to its respective UDI regional office, and UDI will register an application for the child.

If you do not live in an asylum reception centre, you are to visit the local police station where you live to hand in the confirmation of birth document you received from the hospital. The police will then register an application for the child.

Family immigration

You may apply for a family immigration residence permit for your child

If a child is granted a family immigration residence permit, its parents will normally have to obtain a passport for the child from their home country in order to travel outside Norway. If the child holds such a passport, then it can visit the home country of the parents.

If contacting the authorities or the embassy of the parents' home country in order to obtain a passport puts the parents at risk, it is possible to apply for a Norwegian immigrant passport (blue) for the child instead.

If the mother's residence permit does not form the basis for a permanent residence permit, then the child's permit will not form the basis for permanent residence either.

If you do not want us to extend your residence permit, you must notify us. You can contact us by phone.

You have applied for protection, and UDI has assessed whether you can be granted collective protection here in Norway. Since you stayed in another country before coming to Norway, you can not be granted collective protection here. It is a requirement in order to be granted collective protection in Norway that you resided in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, when the war broke out.

The regulations in Norway state that if you have stayed in a safe country just before you came to Norway, you will not have your application processed here, and you must travel back to the country you stayed in and possibly seek protection there. There is no requirement that you have or have had a valid residence permit in the country in which you stayed.

You can appeal the decision and ask to stay in Norway while the appeal is processed. You must appeal within three weeks of receiving your decision. If you wish to make an appeal, you must send the appeal to UDI by post. You can either fill in the form attached to the decision, or write an appeal yourself. The appeal must be written in Norwegian or English.

The appeal is sent to:

Utlendingsdirektoratet
PO Box 2098 Vika
0125 Oslo.

If UDI does not change the decision, we will forward the appeal to the Immigration Appeals Board (Utlendingsnemnda, UNE). If UDI or UNE changes the decision and grant the appeal, you may have the right to have your legal expenses covered, for example, if you have used a lawyer.

You have the right to see the documents in your case.

You will not be assigned a lawyer. It is not a requirement that you have a lawyer to make an appeal, but you can get a lawyer yourself if you wish. You will not be reimbursed for the lawyer's fees.

If you want assistance to make an appeal, but you do not have the money for a lawyer, there are organisations you can contact to ask if you can get assistance for free. Examples of organisations you can contact are:

• NOAS (external website) 
• Jussbuss (external website)
• SEIF (external website)
• Rettssenteret (external website)

If you are not allowed to stay in Norway while your appeal is processed, you must leave the country within the deadline you have been given. If you are going to return to a country which the Norwegian authorities consider it is obvious that it is safe for you to return to, you will probably not be allowed to stay in Norway while the appeal is processed.

If you do not leave Norway, the police can forcibly send you out of Norway. You can be expelled from Norway and other Schengen countries. Once you have been expelled, you cannot travel to Norway or another Schengen country. You cannot travel back to Norway until you have paid the cost for your deportation out of Norway.

If you are over the age of 18, you get fewer rights to healthcare. You can find more information about this at Helsenorge.no (external website).

You can still stay at the asylum reception centre until you leave Norway, but you will receive less money if you do not leave within the deadline.

If you have handed in your travel documents to the Norwegian authorities and have questions about the handing over of your documents, you can contact the police by calling 22 34 24 00.

UDI cannot answer questions about your travel documents.

If you do not have valid travel documents, you must obtain them yourself.

It is the police who check that you travel, and who are responsible for the practicalities concerning your departure from Norway. If you have questions related to the departure, you can contact the police by calling 22 34 24 00.

UDI cannot answer questions about financing or the practicalities concerning your departure.

If you need an extended deadline for leaving the country, you can apply for an extension of the deadline with the police. The police will assess whether the deadline for leaving the country can be extended. If you have questions related to the departure or the deadline for leaving the country, you can contact the police by calling 22 34 24 00.

Not everyone who have been granted collective protection will get an extension of their residence permit. Your residence permit will not be extended if you belong to one of the following groups of people:

• You have been granted a different type of residence permit in Norway.
• We have reason to believe that you have moved from Norway.
• We discover that you did not actually meet the requirements for collective protection.
• You have been outside Norway for longer than 6 months during the last year under collective protection.
• From 1 March 2024, you will not be granted an extension of your permit if, in addition to being a citizen of Ukraine, you are also a citizen of a country Norway considers safe. The exception to this rule is if you are a family member of someone who has been granted collective protection, and who does not have the citizenship of a safe country.
• You will also not be granted an extension of your permit if you are not a Ukrainian citizen, and you have been granted collection protection because you are a family member of a Ukrainian citizen who is also a citizen of a country Norway considers safe.

By family member we mean

• spouse or cohabitant
• children under 18 years of age
• other close family members, for instance childen over 18 years of age, grandparents or siblings.

How will I be notified that I will not receive an extension of my collective protection residence permit?

We do not send you the decision that you will not get an extension of the collective protection permit if you have reported moving from Norway or if we assume that you have moved from Norway.

If you are staying in Norway and you have registered your address in the National Population Register (Folkeregisteret), we will send you the decision. It is important that you keep your address up to date and that you have your name on your postbox.

The decision states the reason why you have not been granted an extension. The most common reasons are:

• You have reported moving from Norway.
• You have notified UDI that you are moving, or we have other reasons to assume that you have moved.
• You have another valid residence permit at the time we are to extend your permit.
• You have informed UDI that you have stayed abroad for more than 6 months consecutively or in total during the period of your residence permit.

If there are other reasons why the permit is not extended, this will be stated in the decision.

You have the right to appeal the decision within three weeks

• The deadline for appealing the decision that your residence permit is not extended is three weeks from the time you received the decision.
• The decision is final if you do not appeal within the deadline.
• You must send a written appeal in Norwegian or English with your DUF number/birth number to UDI. You must sign the appeal.
• You retain your rights until the appeal has been finally determined.
• You have the right to ask to see your case documents.
• The appeal is sent by letter to:
   
  Norwegian Directorate of Immigration
  PO Box 2098 Vika
  0125 Oslo

Have you not managed to obtain all the documentation you wish to enclose with your appeal within the three-week deadline? You must still submit your appeal within the deadline, but you can write in your appeal that you wish to send us more documentation. You will then be given a new deadline of two weeks to submit the documentation.

Any new information in the appeal is assessed by UDI. If there is no new information of importance to our decision, we will forward your case to the Immigration Appeals Board (UNE) for an independent assessment.

• You can appeal the decision, see above.
• You can apply for collective protection again will receive it as long as you still fulfill the conditions for such a residence permit.
• You will not be entitled to a place in a reception centre or in the introduction program if you apply for collective protection for the second time. You have the right to travel to the municipality you used to live in. If you get a new collective protection residence permit, that municipality is responsible for you.
• You can apply for another type of residence permit in Norway.
• If you have a valid residence permit in another Schengen country, you have the right to travel there.
• If you do not apply for a new permit in Norway, you must leave Norway and possibly the Schengen area within the above deadline.

Yes, you may travel out of Norway while you have collective protection. However, you can no longer travel back and forth between Ukraine and Norway if you have been granted collective protection, at least not without consequences for your residence permit. Please note that you must stay in Norway for at least half the time you have a permit.

When travelling abroad, please bring:

• a valid passport/immigrant’s passport/refugee travel document, and
• a valid residence card

If you do not have a valid passport/travel documents or a valid residence card, you should not travel out of Norway. You may run into difficulties at the airport, when you try to enter another country, or when you try to travel back to Norway.

The residence card is documentation of your residence permit in Norway. In Norway, the police are responsible for border control. UDI cannot answer questions about how border control is practiced in Norway or in other countries. UDI cannot issue confirmations that can be used for travel, and that airlines or other countries' authorities will accept with certainty. All travel without a residence card will therefore be at your own risk.

You should not book trips abroad until you have both a valid passport and a valid residence permit. Unfortunately, we cannot prioritise your case even if you have planned and paid for a trip.

Ukrainians with collective protection in Norway can apply for repatriation if they wish so.

Here you can read more about what you need to know if you have been granted collective protection and want to leave Norway.