{"id":140,"date":"2022-12-23T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:15:53","slug":"how-to-apply-for-asylum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/how-to-apply-for-asylum-in-norway\/how-to-apply-for-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"How to apply for asylum in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>You must contact the Norwegian police to apply for asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>If you are at the border<\/strong>, tell the border police that you want to apply for asylum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If you do not know where to go<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politiet.no\/kontakt-politiet\/finn-ditt-narmeste-politi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here to find the nearest police station<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 15 July 2024, anyone applying for protection in Norway must go to R\u00e5de National Arrival Center to register their application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R\u00e5de National Arrival Center is approximately 116 km south of Olso Airport (Gardermoen).<br><strong>Address: <\/strong>Mosseveien 58, 1640 R\u00e5de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to make your own travel arrangements to the National Arrival Centre, which means that you will have to pay for and organise your transportation to the centre. Children travelling alone (unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers) and others in particularly vulnerable situations will be able to get help to travel to the National Arrival Centre. Exceptions can also be made for anyone whose life or health is at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Norwegian Directorate for Immigration (UDI)<\/strong> is responsible for processing all new applications for asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the asylum process in Norway, click on the below links, which are managed by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), the National Police Immigration Service (NPIS) and the Immigration Appeals Board (UNE):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asylinfo.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asylinfo.no<\/a> (if you are above 18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asylbarn.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asylbarn.no<\/a> (if you are below 18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udi.no\/en\/want-to-apply\/protection-asylum\/protection-asylum-in-norway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Applying for protection (asylum) in Norway<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/how-to-apply-for-asylum-in-norway\/what-happens-when-you-apply-for-asylum\/\" style=\"background-color:#0072bc\"><strong>What happens when you apply for asylum<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/how-to-apply-for-asylum-in-norway\/under-18\/\" style=\"background-color:#0072bc\"><strong>How to apply for asylum if you are under 18 and unaccompanied<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must contact the Norwegian police to apply for asylum. As of 15 July 2024, anyone applying for protection in Norway must go to R\u00e5de National Arrival Center to register their application. R\u00e5de National Arrival Center is approximately 116 km south of Olso Airport (Gardermoen).Address: Mosseveien 58, 1640 R\u00e5de You have to make your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":138,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/1289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}