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You will normally receive an answer within 15 days after handing in your application at the Visa Application Centre, the consulate or the embassy. If your application is processed by the embassy in the country you live in,
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How long do you usually have to wait for an answer? You can find information on the embassy's website about how long this takes. If an embassy in another country processes your application, it will take a few extra days because the courier must send your application to and from the embassy. In some places, it can take up to two weeks from the time the case is sent from the VFS application centre to the embassy receiving it. The waiting period applies from the day the case is registered with the embassy. This also leads to more people calling UDIs information service desk. We have many cases to process now, unfortunately affecting our waiting times. If you have not heard anything about your case, it has not been processed yet. If your case has taken longer than what is stated as the waiting time for your case type and you have not been notified of this, you can contact us. If there are things in your family member's case that make the case take a long time, it may mean that your case also takes longer. In some cases, we must first decide on your family member's application before deciding in your case. The UDI cannot answer how long you have to wait for investigations at the police or the embassy. You can find information about waiting times at the police on their website (external website) and about waiting times at the embassy on the embassy's website (external website). The length of time that the police or embassy spends conducting interviews, recording DNA or conducting other investigations varies from place to place. For example, we may have to send the case to the police or to an embassy to conduct an interview, perform a DNA test, check if a document is valid or if the information we have received from you as an applicant or from other places is correct. Yes, we have to do research in some cases, and then processing the application will take longer. Can the waiting time be longer than what the UDI states? We therefore recommend that you check on our website whether the waiting time has been adjusted for your case type before contacting us. So if, for example, you applied three months ago and the waiting time changes from six to seven months, then the new waiting time of seven months also applies to your case. When we change the waiting times, the new waiting time applies to new applications and the applications that have already been submitted and are in line. For example, this may be because we have received more applications than expected or that we must change the priority of the cases. If it says that the waiting time is six months, then the cases we make decisions in now are approximately six months old.
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The waiting time we state will tell you what the waiting time is for the applications we process now. information from the application centers (external website)Ĭan the waiting time for my application change?.information from the various embassies (external website).To find information from the police where you live, you must enter your municipality at the bottom of this page (external website) and then select the relevant police station in the list that appears.Information about where to show up based on what you are applying for (external website).The UDI cannot answer questions about waiting time and appointments with the police or application center/embassy. Waiting times at the police or the application center/embassy How long you have to wait to get an appointment varies, and due to the corona situation, there can be a long wait in some places. The period you have to wait from the time you registered the application until you show up and deliver the documents is not included in the UDI waiting time. The waiting time you find on our website is calculated from when you have submitted the documents for the application to the police in Norway or at the application center/embassy abroad. The information about waiting times in this article applies to all cases except applications for protection, which have a different way of informing about waiting times. This is the most accurate and up-to-date information we have about waiting times, and you will not receive other information about waiting times even if you contact us. In our waiting time guide, you will find regularly updated information about the waiting time for your type of application.