The standard route asks for 8 years of residence — and residence is the first of 6 requirements. Below is each one as UDI states it, dated, with the shorter routes and the absence rules that can push the count back.
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Which route you are on depends on your current citizenship, your family and how long you have lived in Norway — and each route carries its own set of the requirements above.
More than two months abroad in a calendar year means the entire time abroad that year is deducted from your residence count.
Belong Nordic takes your residence date and every trip you have taken and gives you the distance that is actually yours — what you control, what you do not, and what each absence costs.
No invented finish dates: where the law is discretionary or a process is paused, it says so.
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Statsborgerprøven is the Norwegian citizenship knowledge test. It is sat in Norwegian, and passing it — or the social studies test, samfunnskunnskapsprøven — is one of the conditions for Norwegian citizenship.
Norway practice test and sample questions
Rules as of 1 September 2026, snapshot 2026.2, from UDI — read the official source. Belong Nordic is not a government service and gives no legal advice.
