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finding work as a new arrival to Sweden
I'm a UC Berkeley student who will be spending my last summer and semester at Berkeley on an exchange program in Lund. This will be my fourth time in Sweden, though my first three trips were brief. I have a handful of friends there, am studying the language, and truly love the country. I also have dual US/Irish citizenship, enabling me to legally ( Read more... ) -
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hello, i'm not northbound yet, but as an anti-capitalist american, i am seriously considering immigration in the coming years. sweden has particularly caught my attention, because from what i have read thus far, its politics and economics are exactly what i want in a country, though i must admit that i have not done any reading about any other ( Read more... ) -
Intro post for an exchange student!
Hi there everyone! I just joined this community today, and it says to make an intro post...so...here I am!
My name is Julia, I'm 16 years old, and I live in Canada. I'm not exactly immigrating, but I am going for a year long student exchange into Denmark. Originally, I was supposed to be in Germany....but the rotary club ran out of spots, so they ( Read more... ) -
Hello!
Hello.
We are living in Israel and very interested to get acquainted with people and culture of Norway. It would be very nice to get some suggestions from people of this community about possibilities of living and working among Norwegians for a period of time (a year or more). We are a family of 3 persons: my husband is a physician, I'm an ( Read more... ) -
Zomg it worked!
In september I flew over to the US for two weeks and married my dude. He came home with me and about 2 weeks later (1st week of october) we applied for first time residency at the local police station. They gave us a long speech about how this is allowed but 'you should have applied from the US' because Oslo wants that blah blah 'the rules had ( Read more... ) -
visiting the US with criminal record?
I live in the US and have a friend in Norway who would like to come visit for a few weeks. He's afraid to apply for the US Visa because he was charged with possession of pot a few years ago. I've tried googling, but I still don't quite understand how this stuff works. Do you think he have trouble getting into the US for visitation ( Read more... ) -
Norwegian immigration fee increase
The Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion (AID) has resoluted a change in the Immigration regulations which implies that, the fees for family immigration cases and applications for settlement permit increases.
From 1. June 2007 the application fees for settlement permit increases to kr 1 600 and that of first time application for family ( Read more... ) -
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