What is a resettlement refugee?

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) can help you who are a refugee. One of the solutions they offer is that you may be offered protection in another country than the one you are in now. This is known as being a resettlement refugee (quota refugee).

How to become a resettlement refugee

• You have to contact the local field office of the UNHCR (external website).
• The UNHCR will first consider whether or not you are a refugee. They will also consider if you can return to your home country, or continue to stay in the country you are in now.
• If none of these solutions are possible, the UNHCR will consider sending your application for becoming a resettlement refugee to Norway or another country.
• The UNHCR also have other solutions to offer you who are a refugee (external website).

Who can become a resettlement refugee in Norway?

• If you are to come to Norway as a resettlement refugee, the UNHCR have to send your application to Norway. It is required that you are recognised as a refugee by the UNHCR.
• UDI considers the application from the UNHCR, and decides whether or not you can come to Norway.
• You cannot send an application to become a resettlement refugee in Norway directly to UDI. UDI does not ask the UNHCR to send us the application of a specific person.