I am looking to gain citizenship to norway please help!

[istrikeanywhere 0]

Hello everyone My girlfriend lives in Oslo, Norway and ive been traveling here on the 3 month visa we are allowed without registering for the past year. after spending way too much money to be together. i want to become a norwegian citizen. we are wanting to get married in the united states if that is easier. if anyone has any info of what documents she will need for us to get married in the usa that would be great. after marriage i am applying for the family citizenship visa. can i live in norway while waiting for the application for the visa to be approved? any help is greatly appreciated!

thanks for any help you can provide

[yohino 22]

I'm pretty sure Norway does not allow dual citizenship so you would have to give up your american citizeship in order to acquire it. Would you be willing to do that?

http://www.udi.no/templates/Tema.aspx?id=7397

[yohino 22]

You should be able to find some answers here.

http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Central-topics/Citizenship-/

[istrikeanywhere 0]

You should be able to find some answers here.

http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Central-topics/Citizenship-/

yes im willing to do give up american citizenship to live in norway. ive read the udi stuff a million times and no help ill check out your link and let you know if i find anything useful thanks so much for your reply!

[yohino 22]

yes im willing to do give up american citizenship to live in norway. ive read the udi stuff a million times and no help ill check out your link and let you know if i find anything useful thanks so much for your reply!

I'm not sure why you have trouble finding things there.. Here's what you need to do to immigrate.

http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Central-topics/Family-immigration/How-do-I-apply-for-family-immigration/

You might want to try and find a forum that deals with these things though, VJ is for people trying to immigrate to the US.

[pervez 4]

I'm pretty sure Norway does not allow dual citizenship so you would have to give up your american citizeship in order to acquire it. Would you be willing to do that?

http://www.udi.no/templates/Tema.aspx?id=7397

Iceland used to have similar rules, but in reality they weren´t enforce-able.

But in any case. The OP doesn´t get citizenship at once when he marries the girlfriend so that question is moot. I suspect that he has at least 3 years of residing in Norway to do, as is the case in DK and IS prior to getting to that decision.

[yohino 22]

Iceland used to have similar rules, but in reality they weren´t enforce-able.

But in any case. The OP doesn´t get citizenship at once when he marries the girlfriend so that question is moot. I suspect that he has at least 3 years of residing in Norway to do, as is the case in DK and IS prior to getting to that decision.

Which is why I gave him the link as to what he needs to do to immigrate. Hopefully he'll read it and figure it out on his own!

[istrikeanywhere 0]

well im looking to just live in norway legally. by any means possible and it seems marriage is the easiest way. then i can file for a permit for residence or work then proceed with the family immigration visa. i cant seem to find any info stating if i can stay in norway while waiting for approval of visa though i realize this forum is for non-citizens of the usa forum for entry to the states. but sadly i can not find any forum for u.s. citizens applying for visas in europe. ive looked everywhere. also i wanted to know what documents my girlfriend will need for marriage in the states im guessing some of you married in the states and maybe you can help me with that. either way thanks for all the replies

Edited October 21, 2010 by istrikeanywhere

[Otto 83]

** Topic is not AOS (Adjustment of Status) related - best possible fit would be in General Immigration Discussion although, as has been pointed out, Visa Journey and our resources are primarily focused on folks immigrating to the US vs emigrating elsewhere.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

To determine what documents you need to get married in the US you need to check with your local State and your local county. What is required is not standardized across the US but changes from State to State. Since you don't say what state you live in the best advice I can give you is to google "Foreigner getting married in (name of State)". It should give you links to the relevant information.

[Anh map 2,098]

Google is your friend.

Took me a couple of minutes to find this about their equivalent of a K1 through the Norwegian Embassy site >> http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Central-topics/Family-immigration/Who-can-apply-for-family-immigration/#Fiance Which along with Yohino's link ought to give the info needed to go there and live.

Best of luck

[Krepander 0]

well im looking to just live in norway legally. by any means possible and it seems marriage is the easiest way. then i can file for a permit for residence or work then proceed with the family immigration visa. i cant seem to find any info stating if i can stay in norway while waiting for approval of visa though i realize this forum is for non-citizens of the usa forum for entry to the states. but sadly i can not find any forum for u.s. citizens applying for visas in europe. ive looked everywhere. also i wanted to know what documents my girlfriend will need for marriage in the states im guessing some of you married in the states and maybe you can help me with that. either way thanks for all the replies

- It will take you about 7 years I think to get citizenship, and you have to give up your US citizenship. www.UDI.no is your friend.

- Your gf will most likely only need her passport to get married in the States (what I needed in WA), but check with your state licensing website.

- Yes you can go to Norway on the '90 days visa free' thing and apply to the local police (not UDI!).I have no clue what you say to the immigration people if they ask what you are here for since my hubby came from within Schengen and there was no passport check. It is allowed to do this, really!

- Please know that it might be a year of waiting at this point, depending on which city you are to live in. The police are completely and utterly understaffed and overwhelmed with applications in the immigration dept:(

- Also know that you have to apply every year for a total of 3 years (4 times), and since it might take you 3-9 months to get your one year visa approved (which then will be good for 1 year minus the time it took to process it) most of those 3 years is waiting for paperwork. You can stay in norway at this point of course, but you have issues with finding jobs due to not having up to date paperwork. And you can't leave the country at all during this time.

- They revamped the rules last January, they really suck now so please read all the fine print concerning support-money!!!

I've gone through this process if you have any more questions. Good luck:)

[istrikeanywhere 0]

"since my hubby came from within Schengen and there was no passport check. It is allowed to do this, really!"

what do you mean by this? So after marriage is it easier to just go to the local police to apply? my girlfriend lives in oslo. it also seems she has to make more than 200,000kr for 2009 for me to get an approved visa. did you have this situation as well?

thanks

[Krepander 0]

what do you mean by this? So after marriage is it easier to just go to the local police to apply? my girlfriend lives in oslo. it also seems she has to make more than 200,000kr for 2009 for me to get an approved visa. did you have this situation as well?

thanks

Sorry if my sentence was unclear. Many people aren't allowed to apply from within Norway through the local police office, but people who can travel to Norway visa free for 90 days can do this. People who need visas to even visit Norway has to apply through the Norwegian embassy in their country and it goes through UDI, not the police. So it looks like we are cheating the system, but it is not illegal to do this. I don't know what the border patrol in Norway will say if you tell him this though. We were never asked since they just checked his passport in copenhagen when he was in transit. But maybe that's just me worrying over nothing.

Yesterday I saw an article in the paper about the police authorities having sent a request to the dept of justice to transfer the police's job of going through the paperwork to UDI. I would keep updated on the UDI website, Norway has a habit of passing new immigration laws quick.

Yes she needs to make more than NOK 220k in 2009, 2010 and possibly 2011. Those are the new rules that suck so much. She also can't have received most social security support. Student loan income is only ok if she has already been in college for at least one full year study. When we started the process in 2007 the sum was NOK 180k and there was no rule about having earned the same last year. There was also a rule back then if the person in Norway was a Norwegian citizen and you were both older than 23 you didn't need to provide money at all! We planned college around this (I turned 23 and we moved for college in 2009) and right after that the new rules went into effect. I don't think we even needed to provide money for the renewal but they asked for it anyways. It was approved but I don't know why, all we had was a print screen of my online bank saying I had NOK 190k in it. They WILL be much more hard core about the money thing this year. We applied in 2009 the day after the new rules for 2010 was published, and a few weeks after that they decided that they were going to apply to us too, so the situation was all weird.