Visa Information

Overview

If you wish to come to Norway to work, you need a residence permit. You must normally have found a job first. What residence permit you should apply for depends on your competence and the type of work you will be doing in Norway.

If you wish to study or go to school in Norway for more than three months, you must apply for a study permit. If you are granted a study permit, you will also be able to work for up to 20 hours a week while you are studying and full-time during holidays.

Although voluntary work through the Erasmus+ program is not defined as “work”, you still need a work permit in Norway before you can start the assignment. The applicant or another person has to register the application for a work permit in the Application Portal Norway, pay the fee, and book an appointment at the Visa Application Centre for submitting the application with the supporting documents. The case processing time in the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) is 4 weeks.

Once the decision has been taken by the UDI, the Embassy will send the passport with the visa or rejection letter (in case there is no power of attorney) to the Visa Application Centre. The applicant can track the application at the web page of the Visa Application Centre, and will be informed when the passport is returned to the Visa Application Centre. The Visa Application Centre also has a courier service which the applicant can order when submitting the application.

Once you have been informed the case is granted, you must book an appointment with the police in Norway in order to get a Residence Card. See information on UDI's website on how to do this. Please be aware that you cannot start your assignment in Norway before you have been to the police to get a Residence Card.

As an au pair, you can improve your language skills and learn about Norwegian society by living with a Norwegian family. In return, you will provide services such as light housework and/or child care for the host family. Turkish citizens and persons legally residing in Turkey can apply for a residence permit for study, work and other purposes at the Visa Application Centre.

Comments: Third country nationals (exempt Syrian nationals) with a minimum of 6 months of legal residence in Turkey, can hand in their applications at the VFS Visa Application Centers. They have to register their applications at the Application Portal Norway.

Please see the websites of the Norwegian Directorate for Immigration (UDI) and the Norwegian Embassy for more information about different residence permits for work, study and other purposes.

Visa Fees

Work permit - please check

Study and au pair permit - please check

For a complete list of fees, please see the website of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration. The fees are paid at the Application Portal Norway.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay 45 040 KZT (74.57 EURO) to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Please note:

Except from visa fee, there will be 48 320 KZT (80 EURO) VFS service fee charged for each application. VFS Service fee can only be paid in cash in tenge at the Visa Application Centers

Visa fees are only paid with credit card through the Application Portal Norway.

Documents Required

Please click on the links below for some of the most used checklists:

Work

Checklist for skilled worker

Checklist for seconded employee (service provider) Also to be used by imams from Diyanet.

Checklist to be used by voluntary workers in the Erasmus+ program

Study

Checklist for students and high school students

Au pair

Checklist for au pair

For all other checklists, please visit the website of the Norwegian Directorate for Immigration (UDI).

Photo Specifications

A Photograph submitted with the application for a visa should comply with the following specifications:

• Must be an up-to-date photograph (dated max 6 month old)
• Must be a color photograph printed on normal photographic paper
• Should be sized between 35 – 45 mm
• Full face taken straight forward 30 mm from point of the chin to top of hair
• Taken against a white background
• Without sunglasses
• Without hat or other head covering unless you wear this for religious reasons
• Spectacles should not have toned or reflecting glasses
• The frame of the spectacles may not cover the eyes

For further details with samples click here.

Please note that the Visa application Centre may not accept photographs that do not meet these specifications. In case photos are not meeting the requirements mentioned above Submission Officer might ask to provide updated / recent photos. If they wish, applicants could get their proper sized biometric photographs from our Visa Application Center’s photobooth facility.

Processing Time

Please click to see case processing times.

Download Forms

The application form for a residence permit in Norway needs to be filled online.

To register an application online, please log on to the Application Portal Norway.

Form for granting Power of Attorney

Overview

Family immigration is also called family reunification or forming a family. Those who apply for family immigration are usually the spouse, cohabitant or child of someone who lives in Norway. Other types of family members who may apply are parents who have children in Norway, those who are going to marry someone in Norway (fiancées/fiancés), foster children and full siblings.

Visa Fees

Family immigration permit – please check: https://www.udi.no/en/word-definitions/fees/#link-3593. Applications for children under the age of 18 are free.

For a complete list of fees, please see the website of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration. The fees are paid at the Application Portal Norway.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay 45 040 KZT (74.57 EURO) to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Please note:

Except from visa fee, there will be 48 320 KZT (80 EURO) VFS service fee charged for each application. VFS Service fee can only be paid in cash in tenge at the Visa Application Centers

Visa fees are only paid with credit card through the Application Portal Norway.

Documents Required

Checklist for family immigration with spouse

Checklist for family immigration for those who are getting married

Checklist for family immigration for children who have parents in Norway

For all other checklists, please visit the website of the Norwegian Directorate for Immigration (UDI).

Please be aware that “Proof of the existence of family relations (Tam Tekmil Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği)” should be submitted in all family immigration cases, even if it is not listed in the checklist from UDI.

Photo Specifications

A Photograph submitted with the application for a visa should comply with the following specifications:

• Must be an up-to-date photograph (dated max 6 month old)
• Must be a color photograph printed on normal photographic paper
• Should be sized between 35 – 45 mm
• Full face taken straight forward 30 mm from point of the chin to top of hair
• Taken against a white background
• Without sunglasses
• Without hat or other head covering unless you wear this for religious reasons
• Spectacles should not have toned or reflecting glasses
• The frame of the spectacles may not cover the eyes

For further details with samples click here.

Please note that the Visa application Centre may not accept photographs that do not meet these specifications. In case photos are not meeting the requirements mentioned above Submission Officer might ask to provide updated / recent photos. If they wish, applicants could get their proper sized biometric photographs from our Visa Application Center’s photobooth facility.

Processing Time

Please click to see case processing times.

Download Forms

The application form for a residence permit in Norway needs to be filled online.

To register an application online, please log on to the Application Portal Norway.

Form for granting Power of Attorney

Overview

If you wish to come to Norway through family immigration you must, as a rule, have been granted a residence permit before entering Norway. However, in exceptional cases when there is no doubt that all the criteria are met, you may enter Norway before you have been granted a residence permit. In such cases, you need an entry visa if you are subject to the visa requirement – a visa for applying for or waiting for a decision on an application for family immigration (D-visa).

The main purpose of the entry visa scheme is that the applicant can get an entry visa to Norway and submit the application for a residence permit at the police in Norway. By that, the applicant can wait in Norway until the application for a residence permit has been processed, and the processing time will be considerable shorter since the police will handle the case themselves and not send it on for further processing in the UDI. Correspondingly, persons who have already applied for a residence permit can be granted an entry visa so that they can travel to Norway to wait for their application to be decided.

A D-visa can only be granted in certain exceptional cases. It is a condition that there is no doubt about whether the conditions for family immigration are met.

The Embassy will reject applications for a D-visa if the conditions are not met, or if the Embassy is in doubt about whether all the conditions are met.

The D-visa will only be granted if the Embassy has been provided with documents proving that the relationship is of a long-lasting and serious character, for instance documentation showing that the applicant and the reference have been living together for a longer period.

The application for a D-visa will normally not be granted if the reference has come to Norway on a family immigration permit.

In addition to spouses, also joint children who wish family immigration can apply. For more information about D-visas in family immigration cases, please see UDI Circular 2013-001 and the web site of the Norwegian Embassy.

D-visas can also be given for the spouses/joint children of skilled workers with residence permits in Norway. Please see UDI Circular 2013-004. If you have questions about D-visas for waiting for a decision in a residence permit case with another purpose than family immigration, please contact the Embassy.

Please note:

D-visa is an entry visa which gives the applicant the right to wait in Norway for the decision in a residence permit case. It is not a residence permit, and the D-visa does not give the applicant right to work or access to any welfare services or health service benefits in Norway. If you have been granted a D-visa, the Embassy recommends that you purchase a private health insurance that will cover the whole period until your application for a residence permit has been decided.

Visa Fees

The fee for applying for an entry visa for waiting for a decision in a residence case is 90 Euro. Applications for children under the age of 18 are free.

For a complete list of fees, please see the website of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration. The fees are paid at the Application Portal Norway.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay 45 040 KZT (74.57 EURO) to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Please note:

Except from visa fee, there will be 48 320 KZT (80 EURO) VFS service fee charged for each application. VFS Service fee can only be paid in cash in tenge at the Visa Application Centers

Visa fees are only paid with credit card through the Application Portal Norway.

Documents Required

The D-visa will only be granted if the Embassy has been provided with documents proving that the relationship is of a long lasting and serious character. In addition to the documentation required for an application for family immigration, you have to submit the documentation below if you apply for a D-visa for joining a spouse in Norway:

• A written statement from the reference about the relationship between the applicant and the reference, before and after the marriage took place. The reference should carefully explain how and where they met, and elaborate on the time they have spent together.
• The contact between the applicant and the reference should be documented (with a copy of the Norwegian spouse's passport showing entries to and exits from Turkey, and if applicable, a copy of the applicant's passport showing visits in Norway). ) / documentation showing that you have been living together.
• If photos are submitted (optional) they have to be in A4-size.

The additional documents are not necessary if you are joining a spouse which has a residence permit as a skilled worker in Norway.

Please note that whenyou apply for a D-visa, you have to submit all the documents required for a family immigration permit, even though you might have submitted the same documents earlier.

Photo Specifications

A Photograph submitted with the application for a visa should comply with the following specifications:

• Must be an up-to-date photograph (dated max 6 month old)
• Must be a color photograph printed on normal photographic paper
• Should be sized between 35 – 45 mm
• Full face taken straight forward 30 mm from point of the chin to top of hair
• Taken against a white background
• Without sunglasses
• Without hat or other head covering unless you wear this for religious reasons
• Spectacles should not have toned or reflecting glasses
• The frame of the spectacles may not cover the eyes

For further details with samples click here.

Please note that the Visa application Centre may not accept photographs that do not meet these specifications. In case photos are not meeting the requirements mentioned above Submission Officer might ask to provide updated / recent photos. If they wish, applicants could get their proper sized biometric photographs from our Visa Application Center’s photobooth facility.

Processing Time

The case-processing time for a D-visa application is approximately 2 months. After the application is submitted, the applicant will be summoned for an interview at the Embassy. The Embassy will not interview the applicant if the applicant already has been interviewed in a family immigration case that is being processed by the UDI.

Download Forms

To register an application online, please log on to the Application Portal Norway.

Form for granting Power of Attorney

Overview

In order to be granted a residence permit as a skilled worker, you must be a qualified skilled worker whose expertise is relevant to the job you will be doing in Norway.

The term skilled worker covers the following categories:

• Specialist training corresponding to upper secondary education level. You must have completed vocational training for a specific occupation. The education must as a minimum correspond to upper secondary education level, i.e. at least three years. If you underwent an education abroad, you must have achieved the same level of expertise as you would have achieved had you been educated in Norway. Examples include vocational education for joiners, plumbers or auxiliary nurses.
• Craft certificate. A craft certificate taken abroad must have resulted in the same level of expertise as a Norwegian craft certificate.
• University college or university education. The requirement is a completed degree or study Programme. Examples include nurses, engineers, Bachelor or Master’s degrees.

• Special qualifications.

  You can have so-called qualifications as an alternative to education or a craft certificate: The term special qualifications covers two alternatives:

  • Special qualifications are relevant in those occupations for which Norway has a training programme or a craft certificate, but where the customer has no such training or craft certificate from Norway or another country, or has only partly completed such training. You can nonetheless be deemed to have special qualifications if you, through practical experience in the trade in question or in combination with some training, have acquired competence approximately equivalent to the level conferred by such training or craft certificate. The practical experience must be of longer duration than the corresponding education or training for a craft certificate.
  • Special qualifications are relevant in those occupations for which Norway does not have a training programme or craft certificate. You must have practical experience which, in its scope and nature, is on par with what can be deemed to be involved in such an education or a craft certificate. This means several years of purposeful training normally will be required, and you must be able to document how the competence has been acquired.

• Please note that, in principle, a skilled worker permit is only granted on the basis of special qualifications in exceptional circumstances and that thorough documentation is required.

  Your employer can apply on your behalf

  Your employer can also apply for a residence permit on your behalf if you authorize him or her in writing. You must complete the authorization section of the application form or give your employer some other form of written authorization. If your employer applies on your behalf, the application must be submitted in the police district where the enterprise is located.

  The employer cannot apply on your behalf without written authorization. However, if your employer is covered by the early employment scheme, he/she can apply for a residence permit on your behalf without written authorization.

  The early employment scheme

  The early employment scheme means that employers who meet certain criteria can recruit labor directly and let employees start working before their application has been processed. The scheme applies to skilled workers, defined by expertise, and specialists, defined by pay. It is the employer’s responsibility to ensure that the employee fulfills the conditions to be granted a permit as a skilled worker or specialist. The scheme also covers seconded employees employed by an international company and trainees employed by an international company.

  In order to take advantage of this scheme, your employer must be able to submit a tax certificate for value added tax and tax, and a self-declaration of compliance with statutory Norwegian health, safety and the environment (HSE) requirements.

  Your employer can apply for a residence permit on your behalf without authorization. If the employer submits a complete application, i.e. an application with all the necessary enclosures, and a tax certificate and self-declaration as described above, the police can issue a preliminary confirmation that you may start working before the application has been processed. The Foreign Service mission can issue you an entry visa if required, provided that the police have issued a preliminary confirmation to your employer and you are able to document your identity.

  You must meet in person at the police district where the application was submitted within seven days of entering Norway. There, you must document your identity and confirm the application submitted by your employer. The police will then issue you a confirmation that you are entitled to work for the employer in question until your application has been processed. You can start working immediately once you have obtained this confirmation.

  If you are not subject to a visa requirement to enter Norway or if you already reside legally in Norway, you can submit the application to the police yourself. If the application is complete and your employer meets the requirements, the police can issue you a confirmation that you are entitled to work for the employer in question until your application has been processed. You can start working immediately once you have obtained this confirmation.

  You may not change employers while your application is under processing.

  The police can refuse to issue a preliminary confirmation to the employer or a confirmation to you if any of the criteria are not met. You have no right to appeal.

  Customers who apply for a residence permit as a religious leader or ethnic cook are not covered by the early employment scheme.

Visa Fees

Attention!

Visa fee is payable with Visa or Master Card online while filling an application form according to the monthly exchange rate defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Service fee is payable in tenge at the time of submission at the Visa Application Centre.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay EUR 72 to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Documents Required

Please download document checklists from: http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Oversiktsider/Application-forms/Application-forms-for-work-and-residence/. Carry corresponding documents and a signed copy of this checklist to the Visa Application Centre.

Photo Specifications

• Color, 3.5x4.5 cm, clear, clean and contrasting photo.
• Printed on high quality paper, with a white background.
• Taken not earlier than 6 months before submission.
• The customer should be clearly identifiable:
• Full-face, with clearly visible eyes and face from both sides, from the top of the head to the top of the shoulders
• Face should cover 70-80% of the photo. No headwear is allowed
• Mouth should be closed, hair should not cover the face
• In case the customer is wearing glasses – the following criteria is applicable: no shaded glasses, the rims should not cover the eyes, image should not contain flash/light reflections.
• In regards to religious headgear the following guidelines should be followed : chin, forehead and two cheeks should be clearly visible, no additional shadows from the headgear are allowed

Processing Time

Depending on the chosen category, consideration may take 1 to 9 months.

Download Forms

The customer can register the visa application online on the Application Portal https://selfservice.udi.no/

Please note, if more than 2 customers apply for visa with one purpose of travel and trip dates, it is necessary to register as a group.

After completing application form online and payment of the Visa Fee, please print out the Cover Letter and sign. Please also print out the Receipt, confirming the Visa Fee payment.

Overview

You can be granted a residence permit as a trainee if you are to come to Norway to receive vocational training.

In order to be granted a residence permit as a trainee:

• You can not have completed your vocational training. If you have already completed your vocational training, you must apply for a permit as a skilled worker.
• You must complete the trainee stay in Norway before or during your education.The trainee work must be relevant to your vocational training and be of significant importance to your competence.

• You must have turned 15 and have your parents’ consent if you are between the ages of 15 and 18.

  It must also be probable that you will return to your home country when your residence permit expires, and circumstances in your home country must also indicate that you will be able to return.

Visa Fees

Attention!

Visa fee is payable with Visa or Master Card online while filling an application form according to the monthly exchange rate defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Service fee is payable in tenge at the time of submission at the Visa Application Centre.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay EUR 72 to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Documents Required

Please download document checklists from: http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Oversiktsider/Application-forms/Application-forms-for-work-and-residence/. Carry corresponding documents and a signed copy of this checklist to the Visa Application Centre.

Photo Specifications

• Color, 3.5x4.5 cm, clear, clean and contrasting photo.
• Printed on high quality paper, with a white background.
• Taken not earlier than 6 months before submission.
• The customer should be clearly identifiable:
• Full-face, with clearly visible eyes and face from both sides, from the top of the head to the top of the shoulders
• Face should cover 70-80% of the photo. No headwear is allowed
• Mouth should be closed, hair should not cover the face
• In case the customer is wearing glasses – the following criteria is applicable: no shaded glasses, the rims should not cover the eyes, image should not contain flash/light reflections.
• In regards to religious headgear the following guidelines should be followed : chin, forehead and two cheeks should be clearly visible, no additional shadows from the headgear are allowed

Processing Time

Depending on the chosen category, consideration may take 1 to 9 months.

Download Forms

The customer can register the visa application online on the Application Portal https://selfservice.udi.no/

Please note, if more than 2 customers apply for visa with one purpose of travel and trip dates, it is necessary to register as a group.

After completing application form online and payment of the Visa Fee, please print out the Cover Letter and sign. Please also print out the Receipt, confirming the Visa Fee payment.

Overview

Seasonal work is unskilled work that can only be carried out during limited parts of the year due to climate variations, fluctuations in the availability of raw materials or other circumstances. Forestry, agriculture, the fish processing industry, plant nurseries and the restaurant and tourism industries are typical seasonal industries. Odd jobs such as carpentry, painting and other maintenance and restoration work are not considered seasonal work.

If you are to replace an employee in connection with holidays, this must be clearly stated in your application. There is no requirement as to when during the year holidays can be taken.

Who can be granted a residence permit as seasonal worker?

There are no formal qualification requirements for a seasonal work permit, but you must have reached the age of 18 and have a concrete offer of employment. The offer of employment must contain a job description and state the number of working hours per week, your hourly wage and the duration of the offer of employment.

If you have held a permit as a seasonal worker for six months, you can only be granted a new permit as a seasonal worker after you have stayed outside Norway for six months.

If you have been granted several permits as a seasonal worker, with a duration of less than six months, the total period of stay in Norway cannot exceed six months during a twelve-month period.

The position’s requirements

As a rule, the work concerned must be continuous full-time employment, but it can be divided between several employment offers from the same or different employers.

The pay and working conditions must comply with the current collective agreement or pay scale for the industry. If no such collective wage agreement or pay scale exists, the pay and working conditions must not be poorer than is normal for the occupation and place concerned. You must be guaranteed a minimum hourly wage.

The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) must consent to a permit being granted (this do not apply for seasonal workers within agricultural and forestry). You get this assessment from NAV at county level. NAV assesses, among other things, whether the position can be filled by domestic labour or labour from the EEA area. In applications for permits for seasonal work in the agriculture and forestry industries we no longer need this consent from NAV.

Visa Fees

Attention!

Visa fee is payable with Visa or Master Card online while filling an application form according to the monthly exchange rate defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Service fee is payable in tenge at the time of submission at the Visa Application Centre.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay EUR 72 to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Documents Required

Cover letter you received as confirmation on your e-mail (in your inbox this confirmation may appear with the title "application received") (PDF attachment) after you registered your application for submitting documents at Application Portal.

Passport photo not older than three months

Passport and copy of used pages. Please be aware that there should be at least two free pages marked “ВІЗИ / VISAS”.

One copy of all pages of the domestic passport for Russian citizens.

“Offer of Employment” from Norwegian employer (signed by yourself and your employer)

Documentation that you are guaranteed accommodation for the period that the application covers

Advance approval from NAV. Norwegian employer has to contact NAV (the Employment Services) in Norway in order to obtain advance approval (forhåndstilsagn). This requirement to not apply to seasonal workers within agricultural and forestry.

Please remember to tick of the enclosed documents in Document list and bring the list together with the documents to Visa Application Center.

In connection with changes in the rules of filing, when submitting documents to the Residence Permit, you will need to pass a passport for inspection, the passport will be returned to the customer after 1-2 days, upon presentation of an application for filing documents.

In connection with changes in the rules of filing, when submitting documents to the Residence Permit, you will need to pass an international passport for inspection. Regarding the return of the passport, you must contact the Embassy.

Photo Specifications

• Color, 3.5x4.5 cm, clear, clean and contrasting photo.
• Printed on high quality paper, with a white background.
• Taken not earlier than 6 months before submission.
• The customer should be clearly identifiable:
• Full-face, with clearly visible eyes and face from both sides, from the top of the head to the top of the shoulders
• Face should cover 70-80% of the photo. No headwear is allowed
• Mouth should be closed, hair should not cover the face
• In case the customer is wearing glasses – the following criteria is applicable: no shaded glasses, the rims should not cover the eyes, image should not contain flash/light reflections.
• In regards to religious headgear the following guidelines should be followed : chin, forehead and two cheeks should be clearly visible, no additional shadows from the headgear are allowed

Processing Time

Depending on the chosen category, consideration may take 1 to 9 months.

Download Forms

The customer can register the visa application online on the Application Portal https://selfservice.udi.no/

Please note, if more than 2 customers apply for visa with one purpose of travel and trip dates, it is necessary to register as a group.

After completing application form online and payment of the Visa Fee, please print out the Cover Letter and sign. Please also print out the Receipt, confirming the Visa Fee payment.

Overview

You can be granted a residence permit as a working guest in agriculture if you wish to learn about Norwegian agriculture and Norwegian culture. You must be supplied by an approved organization.

In order to be eligible for a residence permit as a working guest, your stay must be organized by one of the two following approved organizations:

• Biologisk-Dynamisk Forening

• Atlantis - the working guest scheme

  It must be probable that you will return to your home country at the end of your stay, and circumstances in your home country must also indicate that you will be able to return.

  Employment relationship requirements

• You must take part in the day-to-day work on a farm, alternatively at a nursery, as part of the family on the farm.
• The work must help you to learn about Norwegian agriculture and culture. Unvaried harvest work does not meet this requirement. Nor may you carry out major maintenance work, construction of new buildings or similar. If your employers engage in ‘combination farming’, for example farming combined with running a campsite, you may only carry out normal farm work.
• As a rule, the work in question involves full-time employment for one employer. If you have two employers, you must work full-time for each of them and the periods of work for each employer must be continuous. You cannot work more than 35 hours per week. You are entitled to at least one and a half continuous day off per week.
• The minimum pay is NOK 600 per month after tax, and you must be guaranteed board, lodging and return travel.

• Your employer cannot employ more than three working guests at the same time.

  The content of the permit

• You can only be granted a residence permit as a working guest once.
• The permit is granted for a maximum of three months.
• You can have up to two employers.
• You cannot change employers during your stay.
• The permit is linked with one employer at a time, alternatively two employers. You cannot change employer(s), as this will be considered an application for renewal. If you have two employers, each of the employment relationships must concern full-time work. The period of work for each employer must be continuous, and you must enclose employment contracts documenting this from both your employers. You cannot go back and forth between two employers, for example by working one week for each of them. The employment contract must also state during which period of time you will be working for each of them.
• The permit does not form the basis for a permanent residence permit or family immigration.

Visa Fees

Attention!

Visa fee is payable with Visa or Master Card online while filling an application form according to the monthly exchange rate defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Service fee is payable in tenge at the time of submission at the Visa Application Centre.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay EUR 72 to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Documents Required

• Cover letter you received as confirmation on your e-mail (In your inbox this confirmation e-mail can sometimes appear with the title: ”application received”) (PDF attachment) after you registered your application and booked time for submitting documents at Application Portal
• Passport photo not older than three months
• Passport and copy of used pages. Please be aware that there should be at least two free pages marked “ВІЗИ / VISAS”.
• One copy of all pages of the domestic passport for Russian citizens.
• Standardized employment contract. The contract submitted must be the original, be stamped and signed by one of the two approved organizations, and signed by yourself and your employer.
• A written guarantee from the same organization, ensuring board, lodging and travel home, plus a minimum wage. A description of the length of the work, and the type of work you will be given at the farm/market garden.

Please remember to tick of the enclosed documents in Document list and bring the list together with the documents to Visa Application Center.

In connection with changes in the rules of filing, when submitting documents to the Residence Permit, you will need to pass an international passport for inspection. Regarding the return of the passport, you must contact the Embassy.

Photo Specifications

• Color, 3.5x4.5 cm, clear, clean and contrasting photo.
• Printed on high quality paper, with a white background.
• Taken not earlier than 6 months before submission.
• The customer should be clearly identifiable:
• Full-face, with clearly visible eyes and face from both sides, from the top of the head to the top of the shoulders
• Face should cover 70-80% of the photo. No headwear is allowed
• Mouth should be closed, hair should not cover the face
• In case the customer is wearing glasses – the following criteria is applicable: no shaded glasses, the rims should not cover the eyes, image should not contain flash/light reflections.
• In regards to religious headgear the following guidelines should be followed : chin, forehead and two cheeks should be clearly visible, no additional shadows from the headgear are allowed

Processing Time

Depending on the chosen category, consideration may take 1 to 9 months.

Download Forms

The customer can register the visa application online on the Application Portal https://selfservice.udi.no/

Please note, if more than 2 customers apply for visa with one purpose of travel and trip dates, it is necessary to register as a group.

After completing application form online and payment of the Visa Fee, please print out the Cover Letter and sign. Please also print out the Receipt, confirming the Visa Fee payment.

Overview

The purpose of the Au Pair scheme is cultural exchange. As au pairs, young people can improve their language skills and knowledge of Norway and Norwegian society by living with a Norwegian family. In return, the au pair performs services such as light housework and child care for the host family.

In order to be granted a residence permit as Au-Pair it must be probable that you will return to your home country at the end of your stay, and circumstances in your home country must also indicate that you will be able to return. In additional you must be over 18 and not be turned 30.

Visa Fees

Attention!

Visa fee is payable with Visa or Master Card online while filling an application form according to the monthly exchange rate defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Service fee is payable in tenge at the time of submission at the Visa Application Centre.

The applicant may request to have the passport returned from the embassy while the application is being processed. If the applicant later resubmits the passport for issuance of visa, VFS may request the applicant to pay EUR 72 to cover the Resubmission Courier.

Documents Required

Please download document checklists from: http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Oversiktsider/Application-forms/Application-forms-for-work-and-residence/. Carry corresponding documents and a signed copy of this checklist to the Visa Application Centre.

Photo Specifications

• Color, 3.5x4.5 cm, clear, clean and contrasting photo.
• Printed on high quality paper, with a white background.
• Taken not earlier than 6 months before submission.
• The customer should be clearly identifiable:
• Full-face, with clearly visible eyes and face from both sides, from the top of the head to the top of the shoulders
• Face should cover 70-80% of the photo. No headwear is allowed
• Mouth should be closed, hair should not cover the face
• In case the customer is wearing glasses – the following criteria is applicable: no shaded glasses, the rims should not cover the eyes, image should not contain flash/light reflections.
• In regards to religious headgear the following guidelines should be followed : chin, forehead and two cheeks should be clearly visible, no additional shadows from the headgear are allowed

Processing Time

Depending on the chosen category, consideration may take 1 to 9 months.

Download Forms

The customer can register the visa application online on the Application Portal https://selfservice.udi.no/

Please note, if more than 2 customers apply for visa with one purpose of travel and trip dates, it is necessary to register as a group.

After completing application form online and payment of the Visa Fee, please print out the Cover Letter and sign. Please also print out the Receipt, confirming the Visa Fee payment.