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Don't give up! Norway immigration difficulty has gone up exponentially the last few years, if you are already frustrated applying in norway will wreck both your spirits for sure.

Best of luck:)

yes, I just wanted my first child to be born there, so that the child could have dual, and then after a year or less move back, but I dont know if that will be difficult? im not a member of folketrygden anymore, but I will get back in it after I move, you know, so i can get the Norwegian benefits..

If you have your child born in Norway you will apply for CRBA and a US passport for the kid at the US embassy in Oslo. If you have the kid in the US then you will apply for a passport and register with Folkeregistret/apply for personnummer at a Norwegian embassy in the US. The process is roughly the same I think. My cousins in Seattle are born in the US and are dual citizens. An american friend of mine had her baby in Norway and he is also dual. It shouldn't matter where the kid is born since you two are married.

The UDI webpage is confusing about the topic and I haven't quite figured out exactly how it works, but I know it does work in practice.

why not wait until you get citizenship (if you're married it only takes 3 years since the CGC)?

There is no dual citizenship for Norway:( Only for her kids if the father is USC. There's more info at www.udi.no.

OP: You should look into if you are still a member of Folketrygden. If you live abroad and don't pay taxes to Norway for more than 12 months you lose membership unless you apply to still be a member and pay a fee. This means that you don't get free health care if you live in the US and only visit Norway for short periods. Although they have recently decided that even illegal refugees should not have to pay for labour and delivery in hospitals, so it will probably work out fine.

BoA (in Texas at least) enrolled my wife (before we were married on a K-1) on a joint account with me just on her passport, European as well, but not French. I know other banks are much more picky. We used of course my US address.

BoA in Washington state let us do this as well. We married in the US on VWP but he moved to Norway after. We just wanted a joint account in the US since we travel there occasionally. I just gave them my passport, and we listed my husband's parents' address (in WA) as well as our Norwegian address, and they forward all statements and mail to Norway. The only restriction since I wasn't a resident was that I don't have my picture on the debit card.

Hi.

We are a Norway-USA couple too, but we live in Norway. Since you mentioned you could move there I thought I should warn you about how it works here right now. (This doesn't apply if you have dual citizenship of course, or if you are going as a student.) He needs to earn about NOK 225k per year to sponsor you (no co-sponsor allowed, in 2007 this number was only NOK 80k), he needs to document he made this much from 2010. You can come to Norway and apply from here (and wait here) since you are American, but depending on where he lives (you file to the nearest police office) it takes about 3-10 months where you cannot work or have the free health service. Unless you have lived together officially for 2+ years you can only apply to come as a fiance (and marry within 6 months) or as a wife. It used to be easier, but they are fighting forced under aged marriages here right now and the rules are not fun for 21 year old students right now:( We chose Norway in 2007 because it was easier, but today we would have chosen the US.

I agree with others, spending some time to wrap up studies/find a job before filing is not a bad thing. You have to do it at some point anyways, and it's better to have stuff worked out so you can focus on each other when you finally are together:) Good luck:)

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.

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:)

I am a Norwegian citizen married to an US citizen residing in Norway. We are going on vacation to the US this summer, I will be on the VWP. This is our first time entering the US together. Since we are a family and only fill out one of the blue customs form, what happens at the passport check/immigration desk?

- I go with him in the US Citizen line at the point of entry (Seattle airport in this case). Can they handle/check my ESTA thing?

- Does he go with me in the immigrants/visitors line?

- Or do we fill out two blue customs forms and go in separate lines?

If we go together, should be bring a copy of our marriage license to prove we are married (we do not share the same last name)?

I asked the CBP customer support about it but they couldn't answer me O_o. Is SeaTac airport special for having separate lines? I just want to know in advance to avoid waiting in line for a half hour only to be told to get in the other line.

Hei to all Fellow Scandahuvians!

I'm a Finnish girl who's marrying her American (well Finnish-American by blood;) fiancee next month. We're filing for a K-3 visa. This site and especially you guyses posts have already proved very useful and we hope to share our fun times with visa process here and get and offer advice and support. If anyone's situated in the Puget Sound area, let me know, as that's where my future hubby lives.

Happy New Year To All

(hope I posted this the right way it's a little confusing)

Hei hei.

I am Norwegian, hubby is American. He is from Seattle and I lived there for a year when I met him. Now we live in Norway but in a few years we will move back (most likely). The Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Good luck with your visa application!

Hei. I did this last fall (US-Norway) but I only told the border people I was there on vacation (they didn't ask more so I didn't tell to stay out of trouble. My visit was totally legal, we moved to Norway 2 weeks later.)

I would ask your employer to write you a letter where he/she states that you have worked there for x years, have informed him/her of what you are doing in the US (getting married and coming back to Canada), that the employer has given you vacation time and expects you back to work on (date here).

I'd also bring a copy of your apartment contract (if applicable) or other housing contract to prove that you have ties to Canada and are not planning to stay in the US.

These things are what other people have told me to bring.