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Norway

Independent contractor residence permit (no DNV)

PR: Nono programmeUTC+2

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
$4,400 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$52,800
Initial duration
Tied to contract; total stay capped at 6 years
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

NOK 545,400/year (~NOK 45,450/month) skilled-worker pay floor from 1 May 2026; NOK 624,700 for master-level roles.

How this figure is set: A formula in law, so the amount moves when its base moves. The wording on the source is: NOK 545,400/year (≈ NOK 45,450/month) — skilled-worker pay floor for bachelor-level positions from 1 May 2026 (NOK 624,700 for master-level). Formula: contract remuneration ≥ skilled-worker pay requirement (§ 6-14(1)(c) referencing § 6-1); UDI sets the NOK figure annually.

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Utlendingsforskriften § 6-14 (Lovdata) + UDI guideline UDI 2010-129 (pay figures effective 1 May 2026).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. UDI: 'independent contractor'/posted-worker permits explicitly excluded from PR basis.

UDI's own word-definitions page 'Residence permits forming the basis for a permanent residence permit' (fetched via an Aug 2026 archive.org snapshot after udi.no returned 403 to direct fetches) explicitly lists 'residence permit to provide services as a posted worker or independent contractor' among permits that normally do NOT form a basis for permanent residence — a direct statement, not an inference. UDI draws a real distinction: a residence permit for 'self-employed persons' (a different category) DOES count, but the 'independent contractor' category matching this row's permit does not. General PR normally needs 3-5 years of continuous residence on a qualifying permit, per the same UDI framework and Utlendingsloven/-forskriften, but that's moot here since this permit type never qualifies.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Oslo sits at 59.91° N, 10.75° E.

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Time zone

  • UTC+2 Oslo (Europe/Oslo)

The country

Region
Europe · Nordic
Capital
Oslo
Currency
NOK
Schengen area
Yes

Next door

1 of the 3 countries Norway shares a land border with is covered here.

All of them are in the Schengen area, as Norway is. For a visitor that is one clock, not several: the 90 days in any 180 are spent across all of it.

What it costs to live there

$3,352 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Norway spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Oslo
$2,736 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,511
Bergen
$2,243 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,072

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • Norwegian Bokmål official
  • Norwegian official
  • Norwegian Nynorsk official

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for Norway in this dataset. What the row records about residence: UDI: 'independent contractor'/posted-worker permits explicitly excluded from PR basis.

UDI page ↗

Needs a Norwegian client contract and skilled qualifications; NOK 6,300 fee.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .