Norway

Steps for counselling and organising return in Norway

	AVRR Counsellor	Client	IOM	Migration office / state department	Police
Actors in return field in Norway	IOM, NOAS (The Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers), Caritas, Pireus and Nomkus (Norway’s Centre of Multiculture)	Returnee	IOM Norway	Ministry of Justice and Public Security Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI)	National Police Immigration Service (PU)
First time counselling / perspective counselling	X
Assisting with organizing travel documents			X	X	X*
Preparing the return of vulnerable clients			X
Registering clients for professional training in EU country	NA		NA
Offering professional training in EU country	NA		NA
Applying for return budget		X (returnee needs to apply online to the UDI for return support)			The client applies for the ticket and financial support online to the UDI
Granting return budget				X
Applying for plane ticket			X
Booking the plane / bus ticket			X
Applying for reintegration budget				X	Together with application for plane ticket
Preparing a business plan ( in case of business start-up)			X
Granting reintegration budget				X
Final counselling			X
Organizing medical escort			X
Disbursing return budget in EU country / giving cash assistance just before the departure			X
Escort to airport			X		X
Connecting returnee with reintegration partner			X	X
Staying in touch with returnee			X

Further information: https://www.udi.no/en/return/who-does-what-in-the-return-process/

IOM will book and pay for the plane ticket for the return journey and provide pocket money for the journey. The pocket money is USD 80 for adults above 18 years of age, and USD 110 for children below the age of 18.
The returnee may be entitled to financial re-integration support. The financial support is intended to be an initial support to re-establish life back home. It is the government of Norway that decides which support you may qualify for and finances the support. IOM distributes and administers the support.

Migrants with rejection or who are in the middle of the asylum seeking process:

Reintegration grant rates

Description	Amount if you have applied before the deadline for leaving the country or are not registered in Norway	Amount if you have applied after the deadline for leaving the country
Reintegration grant for adults (over the age of 18)	NOK 15,000 per person (approx. 1 471€)	NOK 5,000 per person (approx. 490€)
Reintegration grant for each child travelling with family or a guardian	NOK 15,000 per person (approx. 1 471€)	NOK 5,000 per person (approx. 490€)
Extra reintegration grant for each child travelling with family or a guardian	NOK 10,000 per person (approx. 981€)	No grant

Vulnerable clients: A financial grant up to NOK 22 000 in services for example for housing, education, starting a business, work training, medication, food and clothes.
Dublin cases: a financial grant of NOK 5,000

Reintegration services up to NOK 30,000 for specific country of return :

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Assisted voluntary return	213 (51 escorted by the police)	127 (18 were escorted by the police)	127 (33 were escorted by the police)	89 (21 were escorted by the police)	156

Source: UDI, annual report 2023

Information giving: IOM, NOAS, Caritas, Pireus and Nomkus (each organisation has between 1 and 5 full time positions allocated to the return field)
AVRR counselling and return organisation: IOM Norway + Norwegian police

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Norway

Visiting address: Skippergata 33, 2nd floor, 0154 Oslo
Postal address: Pb 8927 Youngstorget, 0028 Oslo

Email: iomoslovarp@iom.int or call
Telephone: (+47) 23 10 53 20 or (+47) 406 23 277

Last update: July 2024