Hello.
We are living in Israel and very interested to get acquainted with people and culture of Norway. It would be very nice to get some suggestions from people of this community about possibilities of living and working among Norwegians for a period of time (a year or more). We are a family of 3 persons: my husband is a physician, I'm an ( Read more... )

In september I flew over to the US for two weeks and married my dude. He came home with me and about 2 weeks later (1st week of october) we applied for first time residency at the local police station. They gave us a long speech about how this is allowed but 'you should have applied from the US' because Oslo wants that blah blah 'the rules had ( Read more... )

The Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion (AID) has resoluted a change in the Immigration regulations which implies that, the fees for family immigration cases and applications for settlement permit increases.

From 1. June 2007 the application fees for settlement permit increases to kr 1 600 and that of first time application for family ( Read more... )

[Backstory: Bringing US fiancé/husband to Norway]

( Current status )

I heard back from the Norwegian Immigration office yesterday. Things were a little fuzzy for us when it came to the rules, but I got it explained, and it was like I thought ( Read more... )

hey everyone,
I am from South Carolina, US.  I am currently working on my undergraduate degree in Sculpture here, but want to go to Graduate school in Norway.  Oslo Academy of the Arts (khio) and Bergen Academy of the Arts (khib) are the schools that I am interested in.  Does anyone have any advice for exchange students?  I have no idea what the ( Read more... )