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Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Foreign citizens immigrating to Norway annually, 1967-2019 As of 1 January 2024, Norway's immigrant population consisted of 931,081 people, making up 16.8% of the country's total population, with an additional 221,459 people, or 4.0% of the population born in Norway to two foreign-born ...
The National Police Immigration Service [1] (NPIS) (Norwegian: Politiets utlendingsenhet) is the unit in the Norwegian Police Service for handling immigration cases.. The NPIS's main tasks are to register asylum seekers who come to Norway and to establish their identity, forcibly return people without lawful residence and to run the police immigration detention centre.
Norwegian nationality law details the conditions by which an individual is a national of Norway. The primary law governing these requirements is the Norwegian Nationality Act, which came into force on 1 September 2006. Norway is a member state of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the Schengen Area.
A Norwegian passport (Norwegian: norsk pass, Northern Sami: norgga pássa) is the passport issued to nationals of Norway for the purpose of international travel. Beside serving as proof of Norwegian citizenship, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Norwegian consular officials abroad (or public officials in the mission of another Nordic country in case a Norwegian consular ...
Moreover, by virtue of Norway's membership of the European Economic Area (EEA), Norwegian citizens also enjoy freedom of movement within all EEA member states. The Citizens' Rights Directive [ 3 ] defines the right of free movement for citizens of the EEA, [ 4 ] and all EFTA and EU citizens are not only visa-exempt but are legally entitled to ...
Commonly D-numbers are issued to European Economic Area citizens who are working in Norway or in other ways have obligations to pay tax or receive welfare benefits, without being resident; refugees while awaiting processing of the resident applications; people who open bank accounts in Norwegian banks; people who have to be registered in ...
Immigration from countries from the Horn of Africa to Norway grew slightly from the end of the 1980s, but grew markedly from 2000 onwards. The growth is usually attributed mainly to a rise in the number of refugees from Somalia (43,273), Eritrea (27,855) and Ethiopia (11,505). [2] Around 30% of all Africans in Norway are of Somali descent, [3 ...
Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 378 076 51 274 6.9 0.9 Europe except EU/EFTA and UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 499 150 162 535 9.1 3.0 Nordic countries except Norway 69 251 7 320 1.3 0.1