Immigraion To Norway

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Invitation and guarantee declaration

In order to be granted a visa, an applicant must have an invitation from a reference person in Norway. If you do not have sufficient funds to cover your travel costs and your stay in Norway, you must also have a financial guarantee declaration.

What should an invitation contain?

An invitation must contain information about the purpose of your visit. It should therefore contain complete and relevant information about the person extending the invitation, the invited person and their relationship to each other (including information about any family relationship), along with the purpose of the stay to be covered by the visa.

The invitation should also state whether the person extending the invitation is also standing as a financial guarantor for the applicant.

Guarantee declaration

In order to be granted a visa, you must have sufficient funds to cover your travel costs and your stay in Norway. The funds for your travel costs and your stay may be guaranteed by a reference person living in Norway.

A reference person who is to stand as financial guarantor for a visa applicant must fill out a guarantee form for visits. By completing and signing this guarantee declaration, the reference person guarantees to be financially responsible for expenses incurred in connection with the visa applicant’s stay in Norway. The reference person also guarantees any expenses incurred by the state if the visa applicant fails to return to his/her country of origin before the expiry of the visa, and so has to be deported at the expense of the state. Such a guarantee declaration is in itself not sufficient for a visa to be granted, but is intended to help those who do not have sufficient funds of their own to cover their travel costs and stay during the period of the visa.

The guarantee declaration must be stamped by the police. The police must be shown the necessary documentation that the reference person has sufficient means to provide for the applicant during the period in question. The reference person must send the stamped guarantee declaration to the applicant, so that it can be included with the visa application. The reference person must not send the guarantee declaration directly to the foreign service mission or the UDI.