A Spouse Has a Right to the Permit, and Then Three Separate Gates Stand in Front of It: 24 Years Old, 3.2 G of Income, and for Some Sponsors Four Years of Work or Study
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Croatia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
195 exceptions recorded across 74 countries · none match Croatia to Norway · Residency through marriage
Section 40 of the Immigration Act gives the spouse of a qualifying sponsor a right to a residence permit - the sponsor being a Norwegian or Nordic citizen resident or about to settle here, a foreign national with permanent residence, or one whose permit can lead to permanent residence. A cohabiting partner of two years has the same right under section 41, as does a partner with a child in common. Three further conditions sit on top. Both parties must be 18, and where the relationship was formed after the sponsor arrived in Norway, both must be 24. The sponsor must show future income of at least 3.2 times the National Insurance basic amount - 136,549 kroner from 1 May 2026, so 436,956.80 kroner for a year. And a sponsor whose own status comes from asylum, resettlement, collective protection, humanitarian grounds or family immigration must additionally have worked or studied in Norway for four years. The permit can be refused outright where the main purpose of the marriage appears to have been to establish a basis for residence.
At a glance
- Status of a qualifying spouse
- A right to the permit
Utlendingsloven § 40 first paragraph: har rett til oppholdstillatelse.
- Cohabitation that qualifies
- At least two years, fixed and established
Utlendingsloven § 41 first paragraph. A couple with a child in common qualifies without the two years, under the second paragraph.
- Minimum age
- 18, or 24 for family establishment
Utlendingsloven § 40 second paragraph and § 41 a. The 24-year rule does not apply where the marriage or cohabitation predates the sponsor's entry to Norway, or was formed in Norway while both held a permit or Norwegian or Nordic citizenship.
- Income the sponsor must show
- At least 3.2 times the National Insurance basic amount
Utlendingsforskriften § 10-8 first paragraph, for the period the application covers.
- What that is in kroner
- 436,956.80 kroner a yearCALC (calculated by us, not published)as of 2026-05-01
3.2 multiplied by the basic amount of 136,549 kroner set by forskrift 22. mai 2026 nr. 869 § 1. The arithmetic is ours; neither instrument prints the product.
- Extra condition on some sponsors
- Four years of work or education in Norway
Utlendingsloven § 40 a, for a sponsor holding asylum, resettlement, collective protection, a humanitarian permit, a family permit, or permanent residence built on any of those.
- Marriage of convenience
- A ground for refusal where it appears most likely that the main purpose was residence
Utlendingsloven § 40 fourth paragraph.
- Living together
- A condition, unless particular circumstances indicate otherwise
Utlendingsloven § 40 third paragraph.
Figures marked CALC are our arithmetic, not a figure in any instrument. Where the law states a threshold as a multiple of something else, the amount shown is that multiple applied - and it moves when the underlying figure does.
Requirements
- Marriage, or two years of established cohabitation, or a child in common
- A sponsor who is a Norwegian or Nordic citizen, has permanent residence, or holds a permit that can lead to it
- Both parties aged 18, or 24 where the relationship began after the sponsor came to Norway
- An intention to live together
- Future income for the sponsor of at least 3.2 times the National Insurance basic amount
- Four years of work or study in Norway, where the sponsor's own status is protection, humanitarian or family-based
In detail
The number is not in the immigration rules
Section 10-8 of the Immigration Regulation states a multiple, not an amount: 3.2 times the basic amount in the National Insurance scheme. The amount itself lives in a different instrument from a different ministry, reset by royal decree every May - 136,549 kroner from 1 May 2026. The krone figure a reader needs is therefore the product of two instruments and belongs to neither, and it moves on a date the immigration rules say nothing about.
Three gates, and only one of them is about the couple
The 24-year rule in section 41 a is about when the relationship was formed: it bites on family establishment, not on a couple who were already together before the sponsor came to Norway. The four-year rule in section 40 a is about who the sponsor is, and it reaches only sponsors whose own status rests on protection, humanitarian grounds or family immigration - a sponsor on a skilled-worker permit is outside it. The income rule in section 10-8 applies to all of them.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Croatia
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«En søker som er ektefelle til en referanseperson, jf. § 39, har rett til oppholdstillatelse når referansepersonen er:»Our translation - not official
An applicant who is the spouse of a sponsor, see section 39, has a right to a residence permit when the sponsor is:
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«Det er et vilkår for oppholdstillatelse etter første ledd at begge parter er over 18 år, med mindre partene er omfattet av 24-årskravet, jf. § 41 a.»Our translation - not official
It is a condition of a residence permit under the first paragraph that both parties are over 18, unless the parties are covered by the 24-year requirement, see section 41 a.
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«Med mindre særskilte omstendigheter tilsier noe annet, er det et vilkår at ektefellene skal bo sammen.»Our translation - not official
Unless particular circumstances indicate otherwise, it is a condition that the spouses are to live together.
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«Oppholdstillatelse kan nektes dersom det fremstår som mest sannsynlig at det hovedsakelige formålet med inngåelsen av ekteskapet har vært å etablere et grunnlag for opphold»Our translation - not official
A residence permit may be refused if it appears most likely that the main purpose of entering into the marriage was to establish a basis for residence in the realm for the applicant.
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«En søker som har levd i et fast og etablert samboerforhold i minst to år med en referanseperson som nevnt i § 40 første ledd, har rett til oppholdstillatelse når partene akter å fortsette samlivet.»Our translation - not official
An applicant who has lived in a fixed and established cohabiting relationship for at least two years with a sponsor as mentioned in section 40 first paragraph has a right to a residence permit when the parties intend to continue the cohabitation.
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«Det er et vilkår for oppholdstillatelse etter §§ 40 (ektefeller) og 41 (samboere) at begge parter har fylt 24 år, med mindre | | | | --- | --- | | a. | ekteskapet var inngått eller samlivet var etablert før tidspunktet for referansepersonens innreise i Norge, eller | | | | | --- | --- | | b. | partene har inngått ekteskap eller levd i et etablert samliv i Norge mens begge har hatt oppholdstillatelse eller norsk eller nordisk statsborgerskap.»Our translation - not official
It is a condition of a residence permit under sections 40 (spouses) and 41 (cohabitants) that both parties have reached the age of 24, unless a. the marriage was entered into or the cohabitation established before the time of the sponsor's entry into Norway, or b. the parties entered into marriage or lived in an established cohabitation in Norway while both held a residence permit or Norwegian or Nordic citizenship.
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Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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«Det er et vilkår for oppholdstillatelse etter § 40 at referansepersonen har arbeidet eller tatt utdanning i Norge i fire år, når referansepersonen har»Our translation - not official
It is a condition of a residence permit under section 40 that the sponsor has worked or taken education in Norway for four years, where the sponsor has
The stem of a six-letter list: asylum, resettlement, collective protection, a humanitarian permit, a family permit, and permanent residence built on any of them.
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«Det er et vilkår for oppholdstillatelse i medhold av lovens kapittel 6 (familieinnvandring) at referansepersonen kan sannsynliggjøre å være sikret midler tilsvarende minst 3,2 ganger grunnbeløpet i folketrygden for den tid søknaden gjelder, gjennom»Our translation - not official
It is a condition of a residence permit under chapter 6 of the Act (family immigration) that the sponsor can show it probable that means equivalent to at least 3.2 times the basic amount in the National Insurance scheme are secured for the period the application covers, through
The only multiple of the basic amount in the family-immigration rules, and the figure that moves every May.
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«Grunnbeløpet i folketrygden fastsettes til 136 549 kroner.»Our translation - not official
The basic amount in the National Insurance scheme is set at 136,549 kroner.
The second input to the income figure. It is reset by royal decree each May.
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Practical notes
The 436,956.80 kroner figure is our multiplication of 3.2 by the basic amount. No instrument prints the product, and the basic amount changes each 1 May, so the figure is good only for the period the current decree covers.
Section 10-9 of the regulation adds a requirement about the sponsor's past income and section 10-11 lists exemptions from the maintenance requirement. Both were in the reading and are not written up here.
Chapter 6 of the Act runs to section 53 and includes routes for children, for a parent with access to a Norwegian child, and for a single parent with a child over 18 in Norway. Only the spouse and cohabitant provisions are covered by this record.
- consolidatesUtlendingsloven, consolidated text at Lovdata
Lovdata, stiftelsen Lovdata
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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- consolidatesForskrift om grunnbeløp i folketrygden fra 1. mai 2026
Lovdata, stiftelsen Lovdata
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Norway's legal information service, and the body that physically produces Norsk Lovtidend, the official gazette. Lovdata is not a ministry: it is a private foundation, established on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and its own English page says so. Forskrift 21. juni 1994 nr. 644, made under section 4 of the Norsk Lovtidend Act, authorises the Ministry to contract with stiftelsen Lovdata for the use of Lovdata's statute and regulation databases, and gives the State a right to take those databases over if the foundation is wound up - so the databases are the foundation's, held under an arrangement with the State. The 1992 circular on publication in Norsk Lovtidend instructs ministries to send material for publication to Norsk Lovtidend, c/o Lovdata. Four kinds of address matter and they are different documents. /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> and /dokument/SF/forskrift/<date>-<nr> are Lovdata's consolidated texts of Acts and central regulations; appending /* to either serves the whole instrument, and without it the address returns only a table of contents and an editorial blurb. /dokument/<...>/KAPITTEL_n serves one chapter. /LTI/lov/<date>-<nr> is the instrument as published in Norsk Lovtidend, which is the official text. /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are unofficial English translations. The free-text search at /sok?q= is readable by the extraction service and is the practical way to find an instrument whose number is unknown; /referanse/hjemmel?dokID=NL/lov/<date>-<nr> lists every regulation made under a given Act. The treaty register at /traktat/<date>-<nr>, which Lovdata administers for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries Norwegian texts of treaties with metadata naming the authentic language.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The consolidated texts are not the official text.** Norsk Lovtidend is what lov 19. juni 1969 nr. 53 § 1 requires to be published for public account, and section 3 of that Act ties an Act's commencement to the date of the issue of Norsk Lovtidend that announced it. A consolidation under /dokument/NL/ or /dokument/SF/ is the foundation's editorial product: reliable, universally used, and not the enacted words. Where it matters, the as-promulgated text is at the /LTI/ address and should be read instead. **No consolidation carries a sweep date.** The metadata block prints Sist endret with the last amending Act folded in, and a Rettet line recording editorial corrections, and neither is a statement that the text was checked as at a day - so no consolidatedAsOf can honestly be taken from a Lovdata page. **The amendment notes are Lovdata's, not the legislature's**: the small numbered blocks under each section are the foundation's apparatus and must not be quoted as enacted text, though they are the only readable record of what a repealed section used to say. **The consolidation prints provisions not yet in force beside those in force**, marked only by a note saying Endres ved forskrift ... i kraft <date>; section 10-1 of the Driving Licence Regulation carries one for 1 January 2027. **The English translations at /dokument/NLE/ and /dokument/SFE/ are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one**: Lovdata's own page states that the translations are not official, that they are provided for information purposes only, and that in the event of any inconsistency the Norwegian version shall prevail; the translations are produced by ministries rather than by Lovdata. **The bare /dokument/NL/lov/<date>-<nr> address is not the law**: it serves a table of contents and a Kort om loven blurb written by Lovdata, and a reading taken from it contains no section text at all - the Immigration Act at that address is 38,290 characters of navigation, against 431,640 at the same address with /* appended. **It cannot be cited for anything an agency does.** The skilled-worker quota, what counts as pay for a work permit, what counts as sufficient means, the Svalbard tax rates and the student tuition levels are all left by the instruments to a directorate, a ministry or the Storting, and none of those decisions is published here.
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