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Where a treaty gives you residence if your passport is from Norway

One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 5 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 67 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.

Where it changes for you
5
Where it does not
67
Blocs you are in
2

Where your nationality changes the answer

DenmarkVerified with official sourceStable2026-10-10

Three Months in the Act, and After That the Union's Rules Rather Than Denmark's

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

The first sentence of the Danish Aliens Act is the Nordic one: nationals of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden may enter and stay in Denmark without any permission at all. It carries no conditions, no registration, no time limit and no money test, and it is the oldest free-movement arrangement in this corpus still written as one line of a statute. The second is the Union's: section 2(1) gives nationals of a Union or EEA state three months from entry, section 2(2) extends the same period to their third-country family members, and section 2(3) says the Act's own restrictions apply to people covered by the Union's rules only so far as those rules allow. A registration certificate or residence card is issued on application under section 6, which is evidence of a right rather than a grant of one.

EstoniaVerified with official sourceStable2026-10-10

Five Years on Registering an Address, Automatically Renewed, and Permanent After Five

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Estonia does not give a Union citizen a residence permit and does not make them apply for one. Section 13(1) of the Euroopa Liidu kodaniku seadus says a Union citizen acquires a temporary right of residence in Estonia for five years by registering a place of residence in the population register, and section 13(2) extends it automatically by five years more so long as the address is still registered and the right has not ended. The only clock is section 7(2): the address must be registered within three months of entering Estonia. An identity card must then be applied for within a month of that registration. Five consecutive years on the temporary right gives a permanent right of residence under section 40(1). None of this touches the Välismaalaste seadus, which section 1(2) hands over to this Act entirely for citizens of Union and EEA states and of Switzerland and for their family members. A family member who is not a Union citizen is in a different position: they need a travel document and a visa to be here at all under section 10(1), and their temporary right of residence is granted by the Police and Border Guard Board for up to five years and never for longer than the Union citizen's own stay.

FinlandVerified with official sourceStable2026-10-10

Three Months on a Passport, Then a Registration Rather Than a Permit, and Nothing Left to Satisfy After Five Years

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Chapter 10 of the Aliens Act transposes the Union's free movement directive, and section 3(2) draws the group it applies to: nationals of EU member states and of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, all treated alike. A Union citizen stays three months on an identity card or passport with no other condition, must register with the Immigration Service if the stay runs past three months, and acquires a right of permanent residence after five years of lawful continuous residence that no condition attaches to. The Nordic right sits beside it in section 157 and is older and differently shaped: a citizen of Iceland, Norway, Sweden or Denmark may enter without a passport when coming directly from one of those states and stay without registering the right of residence - but must be able to establish identity and citizenship reliably, and must register the residence under the Nordic population-registration agreement for anything other than a short stay. Section 158 a(3) adds a benefit the Union rule does not give: a family member of a Nordic citizen has a right of residence even where livelihood is not secure.

IrelandVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

Entry as a Right, and Residence on One of Four Grounds

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Ireland is a member of the European Union, and the only free movement right that reaches it is the Union's own, transposed by the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015. Those Regulations are about Union citizens and their family members and nobody else: regulation 4(1) says a Union citizen with a valid identity card or passport may not be refused permission to enter except on two grounds, and regulation 6(3) gives a right to stay beyond three months to a Union citizen who works, is self-employed, has sufficient resources and sickness insurance, or is enrolled in a course. Five years of that becomes a permanent right under regulation 12. For a national of any state outside the Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, no treaty in this corpus changes anything about coming to Ireland.

SwedenVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

No Permit, No Work Permit, and After Five Years Nothing Left to Satisfy

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Sweden belongs to two arrangements that let people live here without a permit, and the Aliens Act writes both into its own text. The first is the European Economic Area: chapter 3 a defines a right of residence as the right of an EEA national and their family members to stay in Sweden for more than three months without a residence permit, and chapter 2, section 8 b lifts the permit requirement for anyone holding it. The right is conditional while it lasts - employment, self-employment, genuine job-seeking, enrolled study with means and comprehensive sickness insurance, or sufficient means with that insurance - and becomes unconditional after five years of lawful uninterrupted residence. The second is the Nordic arrangement, which the Act handles by naming four countries: a citizen of Denmark, Finland, Iceland or Norway needs no residence permit and no work permit. Of the forty-two origins this site covers, the first reaches seven and the second reaches none.

Where the general rule applies to you unchanged

Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Norway differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.

Antigua and Barbuda

Moving to Antigua and Barbuda Under the OECS or CARICOM

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Enter and remain without any restriction or limitation as to time
OECS Protocol Member States in Schedule 1 Part C:
7, including Antigua and Barbuda
OECS member states in Schedule 1 Part B:
6, and Montserrat is not among them
Argentina

Mercosur Citizenship-Based Residency

Duration:
Up to 2 years, renewable
Entries and exits:
Multiple, unrestricted
Income test:
None
Australia

The Trans-Tasman arrangement, written entirely in Australian law and nowhere called a treaty

How long the Special Category visa lasts:
As long as the holder is a New Zealand citizen
Conditions attached to the visa:
None: clause 444.6 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994 reads Conditions: Nil
Criteria beyond the Act:
None: clause 444.2 states that the only criteria are those set out in section 32 of the Act and in regulation 5.15A, and clause 444.3 gives the secondary criteria as Nil
Austria

One Movement Regime Reaches Austria, and the Act Gives It a Chapter That Registers Rather Than Permits

What it is:
A right of residence, not a permit
Grounds:
Work, self-employment, sufficient means with insurance, or study with means and insurance
Registration:
Within four months of entry, where the stay exceeds three months
Barbados

CARICOM Movement into Barbados: the Skills Certificate, and the Protocol That Has No Statute

Period granted on entry with a qualifying certificate:
6 months
Work permit during those six months:
Not required
Who issues the certificate you present at the border:
A competent authority or a competent Minister of any Member State - including your own
Belgium

One Movement Regime Reaches Belgium, and the Act Gives It a Chapter of Its Own

A regional movement treaty that reaches the Americas:
None in the Act of 15 December 1980, whose only movement chapter is the Union one
Who the Union chapter covers:
Nationals of a member state of the European Union, and their family members
Short stay for a Union citizen:
Three months, with no condition or formality beyond the document in article 41
Belize

CARICOM Free Movement into Belize

Provisional entry on arrival:
a period of six months
Decision on an application for indefinite stay:
within thirty working days of submission
Qualifying states in Schedule II:
Thirteen, before the 2026 deletions
Bolivia

Residency Under a Regional Treaty

Blocs Bolivia belongs to:
Andean Community and Mercosur, both as a full member
Temporary stage, either route:
2 years
Permanent stage:
Indefinite, applied for in the 90 days before the temporary permit expires
Brazil

Residency Under the Mercosur Residence Agreement

Temporary residence:
Up to two years
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Conversion to permanent residence:
Applied for in the 90 days before expiry
Bulgaria

Three Months on an Identity Card, and Then a Document Rather Than a Permit

Stay with no formality:
Three months on an identity card or passport
Continuing residence:
A document issued on work, self-employment, study, or means and insurance
Permanent residence:
5 years of continuous lawful residence
Canada

No Free Movement, and a Regulation That Points Somewhere Else

Free movement:
None: no agreement we have read gives a right of residence in Canada
What section 204 gives:
A work permit without a labour market assessment, where an agreement covers the work
Which agreements section 204 names:
None - it describes them by kind
Chile

Mercosur Reciprocity Residency in Chile

Open to:
Nationals of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Associated states:
Not named by the Chilean migration service for this subcategory
Statutory hook:
Ley 21.325 art. 70 N° 13, reciprocity and treaties
Colombia

Mercosur Residency in Colombia

Costa Rica

No Central American Free Movement, and the Numbers Prove It

Regional residency route:
None
Is Costa Rica in the CA-4 free movement area?:
No
Entry group for Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize:
Second group - no visa, 30 days, extendable to 90
Croatia

Croatia Does Not Offer Registration to a Union Citizen, It Requires It - Within Eight Days of the Third Month

Stay with no formalities:
Up to 3 months
Reporting a short stay:
Not required
Reporting a longer stay:
Required, within 8 days of the third month ending
Cuba

No Treaty Route to Residence

Treaty-based residence category:
None
Effect of a visa-waiver agreement:
The visa requirement only
List of visa-waiver countries:
Not published in any instrument read
Cyprus

Union Free Movement Reaches Cyprus Through a Law Published in English, and It Stops at the Republic's Own Nationals

First three months:
No conditions or formalities beyond a valid identity card or passport
Beyond three months:
Work, self-employment, sufficient resources with full medical insurance, or study
Who counts as a Union citizen:
A national of a member state other than the Republic, and nationals of EEA contracting states
Czechia

Registration Is Offered, Not Demanded: the Certificate Comes on Request While the Police Report Comes by Duty

Registration certificate:
Issued on request, not demanded
Resources test in the registration provision:
None in section 87a of Act No. 326/1999 Sb.
Health insurance:
Not required where the purpose is work, business or other gainful activity
Dominica

Moving to Dominica Under the OECS, CARICOM or Full Free Movement

CARICOM skills certificate in Schedule II form:
Entry for an indefinite period
CARICOM skills certificate in the home state's equivalent form:
6 months
Qualifying CARICOM states in Schedule I:
13, including Dominica itself
Dominican Republic

No Free Movement: the Caribbean Country Outside the Caribbean Scheme

CARICOM membership:
Not a member
Treaty-based residence route:
None found
Nationality-based residence category:
None
Ecuador

Treaty Routes: Ecuador Runs Three of Them

Routes the ministry runs:
Mercosur Residence Agreement, Andean Migration Statute, and the Ecuador-Venezuela migration statute
Statutory basis:
Residente por convenio, a category of temporary residence in its own right
Means of support:
Governed by the treaty, not by the ministry's general rules
El Salvador

Central Americans: Free Movement on an Identity Card, and a Shorter Road to Everything Else

Countries in the group:
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Document needed to cross:
Identity card, not a passport
Air travel inside the group:
Also on an identity card, since 1 November 1997
France

One Book of the Code for Union Citizens, and It Starts by Saying They Need No Permit

Residence permit:
Not required; issued on request
Who the regime covers besides Union citizens:
Nationals of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and nationals of Switzerland
Stay of up to three months:
No condition or formality beyond those for entry
Georgia

No Treaty Gives Anyone a Right to Live in Georgia; the Nearest Thing Is a Visa Waiver and a Defence Exemption

A residence permit granted by a regional treaty or union:
None among the thirteen types in article 15 of the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons
Nearest treaty-based provision:
A visa waiver for holders of a visa or residence permit of a country named by Government ordinance
NATO and Partnership for Peace:
Visa-free entry, departure and transit on official duties, not a residence right
Germany

One Regime Reaches Germany From Outside, and It Does Not Reach This Corpus

A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America:
None
The Union regime:
Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
What is decided at Union level:
The visa, the customs relief on a move, and the right to a basic account
Greece

Union Citizens Register with the Police, and Sufficient Resources Are Measured Against the Greek Minimum Pension

Which instrument governs a Union citizen in Greece:
Presidential Decree 106/2007, not the Immigration Code
Where you register:
The aliens police of your place of residence, in person
When you must register:
Before the three months from arrival are out
Grenada

Moving to Grenada Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: period granted:
Indefinite
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
OECS Protocol: economic citizens excluded:
Yes, unless the Minister approves the programme
Guatemala

The Central American Route Into Guatemala

Temporary residence needed first:
1 year
Everyone else:
5 years
The test is:
Place of birth, not nationality
Guyana

CARICOM Rights in Guyana: Two Acts, Both Commenced, Both Wired Into the Immigration Act

Where the line falls:
By who issued the certificate, with a statutory route across
Guyana's own certificate:
Indefinite duration of entry
Another member state's certificate:
Six months
Haiti

CARICOM and Haiti: Three Member States Name It in Their Schedules, Four Do Not, and Haiti Names Nobody

Member states whose skills certificate schedule names Haiti:
Barbados, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago
Member states whose schedule does not name Haiti:
Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia
What Haitian law gives a Community national:
Nothing we found
Honduras

CA-4 Moves You Around the Region; It Does Not Let You Settle

Member states:
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Founding instrument:
Convenio de Creación de la Visa Única Centroamericana, signed 30 June 2005, in force 31 August 2005
Who the manual regulates:
People who are not nationals of the four states
Hungary

Hungary Counts the Union Citizen's Registration Deadline in Days From Entry Rather Than From the End of the Third Month: the Ninety-Third Day

Stay with no conditions:
90 days in any 180
Registration deadline:
The 93rd day counted from entry
Registration certificate:
Issued immediately
Iceland

Free Movement Reaches Iceland Through a Treaty Printed in Its Own Statute Book, and One Sentence in Chapter XI Says Nordic Time Does Not Count Against You

Stay with no conditions:
Three months from arrival, on a passport or an identity card
Jobseeker:
Six months from arrival, and the same for family members
Time in another Nordic country:
Not deducted from the period of stay
Italy

One Regime Reaches Italy From Outside, and It Does Not Reach This Corpus

A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America:
None
The Union regime:
Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
What Italy offers instead:
Descent, now limited by article 3-bis of Legge 91/1992
Jamaica

Moving to Jamaica from the Caribbean Community

Entry under section 3:
Indefinite period
Entry under section 4:
Not exceeding six months
What distinguishes them in the Act:
Nothing - the conditions are identical
Japan

No Free Movement, and Three Treaties That Move Nurses

Free movement area:
Japan is in none
Treaty-based routes that exist:
Nurses and care workers from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam
What the Indonesian and Philippine routes rest on:
The economic partnership agreements
Latvia

The Immigration Act Does Not Reach A Union Citizen At All - A 2011 Cabinet Regulation Does, And It Still Cites A Regulation Repealed In 2018

First three months:
A valid travel document and nothing else
Work permit:
Not required
Beyond three months:
Registration with the Office and a registration certificate
Liechtenstein

The One EEA State That Rations Free Movement, by Treaty and by Lottery

The instrument that limits free movement:
Sectoral adaptations to Annexes VIII (right of establishment) and V (free movement of workers) of the EEA Agreement
Yearly increase in permits for EEA nationals in work:
A net increase of at least 1.75% of the stock at 1 January 1998
Additional yearly quota for EEA nationals not in work:
A further 0.5% of the same base
Lithuania

Free Movement, With Lithuania's Own Clock: Three Months in Any Half-Year, Not Three Months

When a certificate is needed:
A stay longer than 3 months in any half-year
Grounds of residence:
Worker or self-employed, sufficient resources with insurance, study, or family member
Permanent residence:
5 years, or immediately with Lithuanian descent or the right to restore citizenship
Luxembourg

The Union Chapter Is a Statute Inside the Statute, and It Also Covers the EEA, Switzerland and Some British Citizens

Who the chapter covers:
Union citizens, nationals of the other EEA states and of Switzerland, and British citizens within the scope of the withdrawal agreement
Stay without conditions:
Three months
Beyond three months:
Work or self-employment, sufficient resources with sickness insurance, or enrolment in study with sufficient resources and sickness insurance
Malta

Union Free Movement, With a Registration Malta Made Compulsory and a Duty to Report Yourself to the Police

Residence with no conditions and no formalities:
3 months
Extended for a jobseeker:
6 months
Registration certificate:
Required once three months have passed - not optional
Mexico

Regional and Treaty Routes to Residence

A bloc-wide residence agreement:
None
Mobility instruments:
Recognised, and they lead to a temporary residence or student visa only
Quota:
Each instrument carries its own, and the consulate must check it is not exhausted
Montenegro

A Whole Chapter of EU Free Movement Is on the Statute Book and None of It Applies Until the Day Montenegro Joins

When the EU free-movement chapter applies:
From the day Montenegro accedes to the European Union
What the chapter would give an EU national:
Entry without a visa or residence permit, and permanent residence after five years
Regional residence right in force today:
None in the Zakon o strancima; the only residual ground is article 38(1)(13), for other cases in accordance with the law and an international agreement
Netherlands

The Statute Defines a Class of People It Then Stops Governing

Who is outside the ordinary regime:
Nationals of EU and EEA states, Swiss nationals, and the third-country family members of the first and third groups
Where the right comes from:
The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the EEA Agreement, and the 1999 agreement with Switzerland
What the Dutch Act does with it:
Records it as lawful residence and attaches no condition of its own
New Zealand

The Trans-Tasman Arrangement Is Not in the Immigration Act at All - the Word 'Australia' Never Appears in It

Mentions of Australia in the Immigration Act 2009:
None - the string 'Austral' does not appear in the Act
What an Australian is granted on arrival:
A resident visa, applied for at the border under regulation 8
Travel conditions on that visa:
None - instruction R5.66 excepts a resident visa granted at an immigration control area
Nicaragua

CA-4 and Central American Residence in Nicaragua

What the Single Central American Visa governs:
Third-country nationals, not the four countries' own nationals
What it confers:
Movement. Expressly not residence
Direct permanent residence for Central Americans:
Available, subject to reciprocity
Panama

Panama Has No Bloc Residence Route

Bloc residence route:
None
Nationality-based routes that do exist:
2
Mercosur Residence Agreement:
Not applied by Panama
Paraguay

Mercosur Residency in Paraguay

Countries covered:
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador
Term of the Mercosur temporary residency:
Two years, not renewable
Window to convert to permanent:
The 90 days before the temporary card expires
Peru

Residency Under International Agreements

Temporary stage:
2 years, not extendable
Application window for the indefinite stage:
The 90 days before the temporary residence expires
Income test at the temporary stage:
None
Poland

One Movement Regime Reaches Poland, and It Has an Act of Its Own

Who this Act covers:
EU, EEA EFTA and Swiss nationals, and UK nationals within the Withdrawal Agreement, with their family members
Stay with no conditions:
Up to 3 months
Jobseeker:
A further 6 months, and longer while actively looking with a genuine chance of work
Portugal

Two Regimes Reach Portugal From Outside, and Only One of Them Reaches This Corpus

A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America:
Only the CPLP Agreement, and only for Brazil
The Union regime:
Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
What the CPLP permit requires:
A residence visa, and an application made inside Portugal
Romania

Three Months for Anyone, Six If You Are Looking for Work, and a Resources Test Pegged to the Guaranteed Minimum Income Rather Than a Wage

Residence on entry:
3 months, with no further condition
If you are looking for work:
6 months, with no further condition
The resources benchmark:
As a rule, at least the guaranteed minimum income in Romania
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Moving to Saint Kitts and Nevis Under CARICOM or the OECS

OECS Protocol: right conferred:
Permit to enter and remain for indefinite duration
OECS Protocol Member States:
7, including Saint Kitts and Nevis
OECS Protocol: work permit:
Not required
Saint Lucia

Eastern Caribbean and Caribbean Community rights in Saint Lucia

Economic Union Treaty and Protocol in force:
18 August 2014
Work permit exemption for Protocol citizens:
Same day
Skills certificate in the Saint Lucian form:
Indefinite entry
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Moving to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Under CARICOM, the OECS or Full Free Movement

Full free movement: in force since:
1 October 2025
Full free movement: what Parliament passed:
Two Acts and two orders, all on 29 September 2025
Full free movement: entry status granted:
Indefinite stay, stamped in the passport
Serbia

No Treaty Gives Residence - but Serbian Law Hands the EU, the EEA and Switzerland the Labour Market

Who gets free access to the labour market:
Nationals of the European Union, the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation, and their listed family members
Does that right include a work permit:
No work permit is needed at all
Does it include residence:
No. The Zakon o zapošljavanju stranaca grants access to the labour market; residence remains governed by article 40 of the Zakon o strancima
Slovakia

Registration Is a Duty, Not an Offer, and the Resources Test Is Capped at the Subsistence Minimum

First three months:
No conditions and no formalities
Report of entry:
10 working days
Registration:
A duty, not an option
Slovenia

Free Movement Is a Registration, Not a Permit - and the Act Keeps a Whole Separate Chapter for British Citizens Under the Withdrawal Agreement

Entry document:
A valid identity card or passport
Stay without registering:
90 days from the day of entry
Means where there is no other ground:
Not below the level for social assistance
Spain

No Regional Movement Treaty Reaches Latin America - What Crosses Is Pension Contributions

A regional movement treaty with Spain:
None
What the Ibero-American convention moves:
Social security contribution periods, not residence
In force since:
1 May 2011
Suriname

CARICOM Rights in Suriname: the Line Is Drawn at the Labour Market, Not at the Border

Where the line falls:
At labour-market access, with the issuer deciding only whether the Minister issues a certificate or authenticates yours
Duration of entry conferred by the Act:
None; the Act confers no entry right at all
Stay granted at the border in practice:
Six months
Switzerland

Free Movement Reaches Switzerland by Treaty, Not by Membership

The instrument:
Agreement of 21 June 1999 between the Swiss Confederation and the European Community and its member states on the free movement of persons (SR 0.142.112.681)
Permit for an employee on a contract of at least one year:
At least five years, renewed automatically for at least five more
Permit for an employee on a contract between three months and a year:
The length of the contract
The Bahamas

CARICOM and The Bahamas: a Member State With No Free Movement Law At All

Caribbean Community membership:
Yes, by accession in 1983
CSME participation:
No
Skills certificate regime:
Not implemented in Bahamian law
Trinidad and Tobago

CARICOM Movement into Trinidad and Tobago: Who Issued the Certificate Decides

Certificate issued by another Member State:
Six months
Certificate issued by Trinidad and Tobago:
Indefinite duration
Where the line is drawn:
By which government issued the certificate
United Kingdom

One Arrangement Survived and One Was Wound Up: the Common Travel Area and the Settlement Scheme

Membership of the European Union, the EEA or Schengen:
None. Entry is governed by the Immigration Act 1971 and the Immigration Rules made under section 3(2) of it
The Common Travel Area:
The United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland, by section 1(3) of the Immigration Act 1971
Leave needed by an Irish citizen:
None, under section 3ZA(1) of the Immigration Act 1971, unless deported, excluded as conducive to the public good, or excluded under section 8B
United States

No Regional Movement Regime - and One Status That Is Granted to a Country Rather Than a Person

A regional free movement regime:
None
What reaches a whole nationality instead:
Temporary protected status, designated state by state
The three grounds:
Armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions
Uruguay

Mercosur Residency in Uruguay

Venezuela

Regional Agreements and Residence in Venezuela

Mercosur:
Full member, suspended in all rights and obligations
Andean Community:
Not a member
Residence route for Mercosur nationals under Venezuelan law:
None found