🇳🇴 Norway · Permanent Residency
Permanent residency and golden-visa paths: eligibility, required years, investment thresholds, and official checklists.
Norwegian permanent residence is handled by UDI and lets the holder stay and work indefinitely. Eligibility depends on the residence-permit basis, continuous residence, income/support and other conditions, so applicants should use the personalised UDI guide.
- UDI says applicants with a qualifying residence permit may meet requirements after at least three years, but exact rules vary.
- Permanent residence is separate from citizenship and has different tests and consequences.
- EEA-family and other special routes can follow different rules.
Official authorities
- UDI — permanent residence
Official permanent-residence guide.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.