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Law of Norwegian citizenship (the citizenship law). |
| Date | LO-2005--06-10-51 |
| Ministry of | The Justis and the Department of Emergency |
| Last modified | LAW-2015 -06-19-65 from 01.10.2015 |
| Published | In 2005 booklet 7 |
| Istrontrecation | 01.09.2006 |
| Changing | LO-1950-12-08-3 |
| Announcement | 10.06.2005 |
| Card title | Civil Rights Act |
Jf. former laws 21 apr 1888 (with additional slings of 27 July 1896 # 4, 29 March 1900 # 1 and 11 June 1906 # 2, paragraph III), 8 aug 1924 # 3 (with accessory law 25 June 1936 # 2), 8 des 1950 # 3.
The law reguates the regulation and loss of Norwegian citizenship.
The law also applies to Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
The law is carried out by the King, the Department of Education, the Outdoor Board, the Outdoor Directorate, police and Norwegian Foreign Affairs stations.
The king can in regulation give regulations to the padding of the law.
The law applies to the limitations that follow by the agreements with other states and the fold of the fold by the way.
Part ArticleChildren become a Norwegian citizen at birth if the father or mother is a Norwegian citizen. The death of the father before the baby is born, it is sufficient that the father was a Norwegian citizen when he died.
Hittchildren who are found in the realm are Norwegian citizen until otherwise added reason.
Children adopted by a Norwegian citizen become a Norwegian citizen by the adoption if the child is under the age of 18 at adoption time. Adoption licence must be granted by the Norwegian Authority in co-compliance of the adoption law, or by foreign adoption that shall apply in Norway after the provisions of the adoption law chapter 4.
By the decision or the recognition of the relationship that laid the basis for the employment of citizenship after the Section 4 or 5 non-present, the child shall be deemed to never have been Norwegian. This still does not apply if the child thus becomes staunlessly, or the decision or the ruling takes place after the person is filled 18 years.
When straight reasons are present, it can after application meet the decision that a decision or recognition as mentioned in the first clause should not matter. The seeker shall then be deemed to have been Norwegian from the time of originally assumed the employment of Norwegian citizenship. By the decision, it shall be placed emphasis on the amount of time gone from assumed the position of the appropriate relationship was established, and whether the applicant and dennes parents were in good faith.
Any one has after application right to Norwegian citizenship if the applicant at the pass time
| a) | has clarified its identity, jf. fifth clause, |
| b) | has turned twelve years, |
| c) | are and will remain settled in the realm, |
| d) | fills the terms of permanent residence permit in the foreigner law Section 62, |
| e) | has until together seven years of residency in the realm over the past 10 years, with the residence permits of at least one year duration, stay in one or more applications experiments co-calculated in the sewing spring period, jf. sixth clause, |
| f) | fills the requirement of the norship training set in Section 8, |
| g) | is not illapital punishment or criminal justice or has outheld the carage, jf. Section 9, and |
| h) | fills the claim of solution from other citizenship stipulate in Section 10. |
The seeker does not have the right to Norwegian citizenship after the first clause of the envision of fundamental national interests or foreign policy considerations against.
Hold up permissions that would be provided with at least one year duration, but that were given with shorter duration, jf. The foreigner law Section 60 first clause third period, shall be co-count on calculation of upholding, jf. The citizenship Act Section 7 first clause letter e, Section 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 18. The same applies to the residence permits by the foreigner Law Section 60 first clause fourth period that forms the basis for permanent residence permit.
The exhaustive police reference should follow the application of citizenship. The police test is also supposed to show conditions that the applicant has been charged or prosecuted.
The king can in regulation provide filler regulations on the requirement of clearances and about police reference.
The king can in regulation give regulations on the calculation of upholding time by the rules of this chapter.
| 0 | Modified by laws 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753), 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). Endres at law 29 apr 2016 # 8, which changed by law 17 June 2016 # 57 (ikr. from the time the King decides). |
For applicants between 18 and 55 years, it is a requirement to have implemented 300 hours approved norms training or documenting adequate knowledge in Norwegian or samic. For applicants between 18 and 55 years that are reauthored by duty of training in Norwegian and community knowledge after the introductory law, it is a requirement that they must have fulfilled their duty after the law. The application of the application is crucial for whether the 18-year limit after the first and second period is met.
The king can in regulation give closer regulations on the requirement of implemented norms training, therunder about exceptions, and about the requirement of adequate knowledge in Norwegian or samic.
| 0 | Modified by laws 24 June 2011 # 19 (ikr. 25 July 2011 ifg. law on Norwegian Lol-era 19 June 1969 No. 1 53 Section 3, in addition, the change is at res. 16 des 2011 # 1276 attempted set in force 1 jan 2012), 27 apr 2012 number 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). Endres at law 29 apr 2016 # 8, which changed by law 17 June 2016 # 57 (ikr. from the time the King decides). |
The imposed penalty or criminal justice does not have the right to Norwegian citizenship until there is a certain amount of time (carentime) determined in regulation given by the King. The length of Karenren's length should depend on the illaded reaction.
The period of Karenera is assumed from the day final judgment is said. At the illa-term, the carnation is counted from the ordinance of the pass.
The one who is illatal punishment or criminal justice does not have the right to Norwegian citizenship until this one is conducted and all probation has been issued.
| 0 | Modified by laws 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
If the applicant does not automatically lose other citizenship as a result of the grant of Norwegian citizenship, the applicant must be resolved from other citizenship before the application grant. If the applicant cannot be resolved from any other citizenship before the application grant, the applicant must within one year from the grant of Norwegian citizenship document that the person has been resolved from other citizenship. If the applicant cannot be resolved from any other citizenship until a certain age has been achieved, the applicant must within one year after achieving this age document that the person has been resolved from other citizenship. The exception can be made from the requirement of solution if solution is deemed legal or practical impossible or for other reasons is being unreasonable.
If solution from other citizenship documents the within the expiration of the deadline after the first clause, it shall be in writing confirmed that the Norwegian citizenship is intact. If solution from other citizenship is not documented within the expiration of the deadline, the rules of callbacks come in Section 26 first clause to the Applicability.
Part Article SECTION 11. People arrived in the realm before the age of 18For applicants who arrived in the realm before the age of 18, the arbitrary term does not apply to Section 7 first clause letter e. The seeker still needs to have five years of stay in the realm of the realm over the past seven years, with the residence permits of at least one year duration. Enhold in one or more applications experiment co-counts in the five-year period.
| 0 | Modified by law 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324). |
For applicant who is married to a Norwegian citizen and has joint residence with the spouse, the arbitrary year does not apply to Section 7 first clause letter e. The seeker still needs to have at least three years of stay in the realm within the last ten years of upholding permits of at least one year duration. Enhold in one or more applications experiment co-counts in the three-year period. The holding time of the realm and time as married to a Norwegian national with joint residence must also be combined for at least seven years. The attitude and time of time married to Norwegian citizen can be raised at the same time.
The first clause applies to the equivalent of registered partners and for cohabitating.
| 0 | Modified by law 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324). |
For applicants who are a citizen of a different Nordic country, the terms of Section 7 are not applicable to the Section 7 first clause letter and e. The seeker must still have stayed in the realm for the past two years.
Part Article SECTION 14. Searchers as being retaken by the EES Agreement or EFTA ConventionFor applicant who has the residence right after the foreigner laws chapter 13 about the rights of foreigners who are retaken by Agreement on the European Economic Coalition (EDS) and the Convention of the Creation of the European Free Trade Association (The EFTA Convention), does not apply to the arbitrary year in Section 7 first clause letter. The seeker must still have stayed in the realm for the past three years of residence right in the co-state of the foreigner law Section 112 to 116.
| 0 | Modified by laws 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
For applicants who have previously been Norwegian national, the terms of Section 7 are not applicable to the Section 7 first clause letter and e. The seeker must still have stayed in the realm for the past two years with the residence permits of at least one year duration. The entertainment time of one or more applications periods co-counts in the two-year period.
For children under the age of twelve who have previously been a Norwegian citizen and who are children of Norwegian national, the terms of Section 7 are not applicable to the Section 7 first clause letter b, d and e. Children who are over two years at the application of the application must still have stayed in the realm for the past two years with the residence permits of at least one year duration. The entertainment time of one or more applications periods co-counts in the two-year period.
| 0 | Modified by laws 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
For applicants who are stateless do not apply to the terms of Section 7 first clause letter b, e and h. As stateless, it does not count as by its own action or avoidance has chosen to be stateless, or as in a simple way can become a citizen of a different country. Stateless seeking as on the application of the application has turned 18, still has to be detained in the realm for the past three years with the residence permits of at least one year duration. The attitude of time in one or more applications experiments co-counts in the three-year period.
| 0 | Modified by laws 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). Endres by law 17 June 2016 # 58 (ikr. from the time the King decides). |
Children under the age of 18 of the who are enlisting or have acquired Norwegian citizenship by the provisions of the chapter here, have filed for application entitled to Norwegian citizenship if they fill the terms in Section 7 first clause letter a, c, g and h, and it did not ratio as mentioned in Section 7 other joints. The same goes for children of parents who have acquired Norwegian citizenship in co-hold of Section 20 or 21. The search's age at the application of the application is crucial to whether the applicant can enlist Norwegian citizenship after the paragrafen here.
Children who are over two years at the application of the application must still have stayed in the realm for the past two years with the residence permits of at least one year duration. Enhold in one or more applications experiment co-counts in the two-year period. The requirement of residence permit nonetheless does not apply to children who are a citizen of a different Nordic country.
Children who are married or registered partner are not retaken by the paragrafen here.
| 0 | Modified by laws 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
The King of State Council can in regulation give rules about exceptions from the erversterms of this chapter in this chapter for the shonest groups of applicants.
Part Article SECTION 19. DispatchIf particularly strong reasons are present, it can in the individual case of favour for the applicant are made exceptions from the terms of the terms of the citizenship stipulated in this chapter.
Part ArticleDanish, Finnish, Icelandic and Swedish nationals have by message the right to become a Norwegian citizen if they have turned 18 years, has been settled in the realm for the past seven years and in this time has not been sentenced to freedom of punishment or particular as a result of punishable conditions. The Melder must make amends that the person at the latest acquisition has been resolved from other citizenship.
Police certificate showing whether the flour has been illased freedom penalty or criminal justice in the past seven years should follow message of citizenship. The king can in regulation give regulations on police reference.
| 0 | Modified by law 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753). |
The one who has lost the Norwegian citizenship and then only has been a citizen of other Nordic countries, has by message the Norwegian citizenship back if the meldage has settled in the realm and resettlement that the person at the latest acquired is loosely from other citizenship.
Part Article SECTION 22. The Erstice for ChildrenChildren under the age of 18 of the person who are enlisting citizenship after the provisions of Section 20 or 21 automatically receive Norwegian citizenship at the parents ' residence, if the child is settled in Norway and the latest on acquired are resolved from other citizenship.
Children who are married or registered partner are not retaken by the first clause.
Section 6 applies to the equivalent.
The enlisting of other citizenship after application or expressly consent, loses its Norwegian citizenship.
Children under the age of 18 that automatically reenlist another citizenship because one of the parents who has part in parenthood is enlisting another citizenship, loses its Norwegian citizenship. The loss still does not enter if the second of the parents is a Norwegian citizen, or if the child is married or registered partner.
The person who acquired Norwegian citizenship at birth, but has not been settled for two years in Norway or to together seven years in Norway and other Nordic countries, loses its Norwegian citizenship when they fill 22 years.
The person who would otherwise lose its Norwegian citizenship after the first clause, may after application get the right to keep it if the applicant has adequate ties to Norway. Sikad if it needs to be remade within the person turns 22 years
An application can be taken during treatment even if it is profiled for late, if the applicant is not essential to reproach for this, or it would be unreasonable that the citizenship of state tares due to the neglect.
Does anyone lose their Norwegian citizenship after this paragraph, also loses their child citizenship. Nevertheless, it does not apply if one of the parents is still Norwegian, or the child itself fills the terms in the first clause to retain the citizenship.
Loss of citizenship after this paragraph does not enter if they are thus stateless.
The king can in regulation give closer rules about the terms of keeping Norwegian citizenship after the paragrafen here.
Part Article SECTION 25. Tap after applicationNorwegian national who is settled abroad and has other citizenship, has after application the right to be resolved from its Norwegian citizenship. If the applicant is settled in Norway and has other citizenship, the person can only be solved from the Norwegian citizenship if it will be unreasonable to refuse this.
Regardless of residence, the applicant cannot be resolved from its Norwegian citizenship if this entails that they become stateless. The person can still be resolved from Norwegian citizenship if the applicant is settled abroad, and it is necessary for consideration of the erstice of another citizenship. It shall then be a due date for when other citizenship must be acquired. If other citizenship is not acquired within the expiry of the state, the person is deemed not resolved from its Norwegian citizenship.
Part Article SECTION 26 RecallNorwegian citizenship shall be recalled if the claim to the solution from other citizenship is not met. This still does not apply if the exception is made from the solution requirement after Section 10 first clause fourth period. If solution from other citizenship is documented after the expiration of the deadline in Section 10 first joints, callbacks can be exempted with less-honest reasons speaks against it. If it does not meet the call for callbacks, it shall be in writing confirmed that the Norwegian citizenship is intact.
An ordinance of citizenship can be recalled where reprovisioning is following the management of the Management Act Section 35 or common management legal rules. The recall of citizenship built on incorrect or incomplete information can still only be taken if the applicant against better judgement has given the incorrect information or has been foreclose to the importance of the ordinance.
The application of Norwegian citizenship is provided to the police or Norwegian Foreign Affairs station preparing the case. The Outdoor Directorate determines the application. Message of Norwegian citizenship is given to the police preparing the case. The Outdoor Directorate is hitting the ordinance whether the message is to be accepted or not.
The decision of the callbacks of citizenship is met by the Udrending Directorate.
Attached as mentioned in the first and second clause can be scratched to the Outdoor Board of Education. The King of State Council is clampdown in cases where the ministry has applied his instructional authority after Section 28 other clauses. The Outdoor Act Section 77, 78 and 79 first joints apply to the equivalent of the treatment of cases by the law here.
The Ministry may be able to decide that the ordinance met by the Outdoor Directorate of favour for that matter shall be tried by the UtlendingBoard. The decision shall meet at the latest four months after the wood ceiling was hit, be in writing and bagrant. The Prevalence Act IV to the VI on case preparation, ordinance and complaint does not apply to such decision.
Coming the Outdoor Board in a case after the fourth clause that the Outdoor Board of Directorate is invalid, shall the repealing and submit the case back to the Board of Directorate for whole or partial new treatment. Section 26 other clause different period applies to the equivalent. Valid ordinance cannot be repeapled or modified, but the Board may make a statement on the case of the case of principle. The Outdoor Board's decision cannot be incurred.
When the Outdoor Board of Education has hit the ordinance of the law here to favour for that matter, the ministry of lawsuits can be tried for the validity of the ordinance. Search targets must be erected within four months after the wood ceiling was hit. Search targets are raised against the ordinance of the bill has been hit with favour. The Megling in the settlement council did not occur.
In case mentioned in the fourth clause, that case applies straight to free legal advice without the need trial. In case mentioned in the sixth clause, the person has the right to free case of conduct without the need trial.
The king can give rules on which cases are to be processed in the Grand Board, and whether the authority to determine whether a case brought in for treatment in the Grand Board shall be assumed for treatment. The king can in regulation give closer rules on case preparation and about the Outdoor Commission's competence in cases after the fourth clause. The king can also give rules on the Board of Board's further treatment of cases by the law here.
| 0 | Modified by laws 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753), 19 June 2009 # 41 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 30 oct 2009 # 1324), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
The Ministry cannot instruct on the decision of individual cases. The Ministry also cannot instruct the Utlendingsda on the Law of Law-interpreting or Beauty Practice. The Ministry can instruct on prioritizing matters.
In order to uphold the regard of fundamental national interests or foreign policy, the ministry can instruct independently of the limitations in the first clause.
| 0 | Modified by laws 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
In connection with message or application for Norwegian citizenship, that matter applies, duty to advance any information that may have meaning to the ordinance.
In connection with the treatment of a case by law here, that case can be applied to provide information that may have meaning to the ordinance, provide necessary documentation and meeting personal.
If the organ that processes a case by law here, regards it as necessary for enlightenment of the matter, the organ may, without the obstruction of secrecy, impose the following organs to extradite information in accordance with regulation following the fourth clause :
| a) | police, |
| b) | the league authorities, |
| c) | the employment and welfare management, |
| d) | State loan case for education and |
| e) | The counties. |
The king shall in regulation give closer rules on which organs may impose the issue of information by other clauses, in which case types it can be obtained and what information can be obtained.
| 0 | Modified by laws 30 June 2006 # 36 (ikr. 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753), 7 des 2012 No. 1 71 (ikr. 10 des 2012 ifg res. 7 des 2012 # 119), 27 apr 2012 No. 1 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364) that changed by law 7 des 2012 number 71 as reanitioned as law 11 jan 2013 No. 1 1. Endres at law 27 May 2016 # 14 (ikr. 1 jan 2017 ifg. res. 27 May 2016 # 531). |
The treatment of an application can be placed in the case of whether or not to meet the ordinance of the foreigner and the ordinance will have meaning for the application of citizenship.
The treatment can also be placed in the case of the applicant if the applicant is under investigation for a criminal offence that could gain meaning for the application, jf. SECTION 9.
The application of the erstice or loss of citizenship for children can only be alienate by the parents of communities or of the person who has parental responsibility alone. If one of the parents is staying in unknown location, application can still be alienates by the other. Are the parents deprived of parenthood or are her parents dead, performing the guardian of the child.
For children who have completed twelve years, it takes consent in the application. It does not require consent if the child due to illness or developmental lasting is unable to give consent.
Children who have not filled twelve years should be given the opportunity to give expression of their opinion. The child's opinion is to be added to the weight in accordance with the child's age and maturity.
The provisions of this parrafen apply to the equivalent of the provisions of Norwegian citizenship after Section 21.
The fee can be required for the processing of applications and messages of citizenship. The king can in regulation give regulations on the size of the fee, incretions and exceptions from the duty of paying fees.
Part Article SECTION 33. PunishmentThe act of intentional or aggravated negligent or evidently misleading information in a case by law here is punishable by fines or imprisonment until six months or both.
| 0 | Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015). |
The law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1 From the same time, the Law of the 8th December 1950 # 3 about Norwegian impeachment.
| 1 | From 1 sep 2006 ifg. res. 30 June 2006 # 753. |
The parliament consent in the ratification of the European Convention on citizenship 6. November 1997.
Part Article SECTION 36. Overtime rulesSisters and messages are to be treated after the law here if they are promoted after the law of law. The application and messages that are prevalence before the law of law enforcement shall be treated by the law here if it will be to favour for the applicant or the meldage.
Section 27 third joints and Section 28 also apply to cases that have been promoted before, but which are settled after the law here stepped into effect.
Messages that have been entered into the county-man overpass the Outdoor Directorate of the decision. Comstock that has been brought in to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is transmitted the Outdoor Board of the decision.
Children under the age of 18 who were adopted by a Norwegian national before the law here stepped into effect, but who did not become a Norwegian citizen by the adoption or later by message or application, has by message the right to become a Norwegian citizen, provided adoption licence was granted by the Norwegian Authority in co-compliance of the adoption law or the provision of foreign adoption that applies in Norway after the provisions of the adoption law chapter 4.
Children under the age of 18 born before the law here stepped into force that is not a Norwegian citizen, has by message the right to become a Norwegian citizen if the father was a Norwegian citizen when the child was born. The deceased father before the child was born, it is sufficient that the father was a Norwegian citizen when he died.
Section 31 of the law here also applies to the erstice of Norwegian citizenship after the first and other clause.
Section 17 of the law here also applies to children under 18 years of those who have acquired Norwegian citizenship after law 8. December 1950 # 3 about Norwegian impeachment.
| 0 | Modified by law 27 apr 2012 number 22 (ikr. 1 jan 2013 ifg. res. 27 apr 2012 No. 1 364). |
