{"id":175,"date":"2022-12-28T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:19:52","slug":"about-unhcr-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/about-unhcr-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNHCR in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR works to protect the rights and support better futures for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees and people at risk of statelessness around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Norway, UNHCR supports the national authorities in carrying out its duties in line with international and European standards. UNHCR does <strong>not<\/strong> register asylum-seekers in Norway. The asylum procedure in Norway is under the responsibility of the Norwegian Police, the Directorate of Immigration and the Immigration Appeals Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR does <strong>not<\/strong> have a physical office in Norway, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/neu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UNHCR\u2019s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries<\/a>, which is based in Stockholm (Sweden), is responsible for Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not found the information that you were looking for in this \u2018HELP\u2019 website, please feel free to contact us via phone or email:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0? <strong>+46 10 10 12 800<\/strong>\u00a0(Monday\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Friday, 10.00-12.00 Stockholm time)<br><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Email:<\/strong> ?\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:swestprotection@unhcr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swestprotection@unhcr.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\"><strong>If you don&#8217;t speak either English or Swedish<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only answer calls in English or Swedish, you can send us an e-mail in your <strong>preferred language<\/strong> explaining your situation, and we will reply. Our reply will, in most cases, be in English, but we encourage you to use Google Translate if you have difficulties understanding it or send us another e-mail asking us to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons. UNHCR works to protect the rights and support better futures for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees and people at risk of statelessness around the world. In Norway, UNHCR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/norway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}