So now I will share to you my experiences of course on how did I get my Norwegian citizen all those important requirements, how to get those requirements and of course the things that some of you doesn't know. Hello everyone, hello Alessam and welcome to my YouTube channel. I am Donita, European IT Chair in Norway. And if you are new here, I am making vlogs about my experiences and life here in Norway. So if you are not new here, welcome back again to my YouTube channel and don't forget to subscribe. And in this video I will share to you a good news that I've already received my Norwegian passport. So it means that I am already an Norwegian citizen. And did you know that having an Norwegian passport is having a visa free, a straight forward access to 173 countries or territories. So it is hassle free to have Norwegian passport and like my passport report, Philippine passport. But of course having an Norwegian citizen is also having the opportunity to vote in their national elections. And also the validity of passport in Norway is around 10 years. And this is the new passport, this is my passport and this is the older passport. It is red dark red or maroon and this is light or red orange the new one. So now I will share to you my experiences of course on how did I get my Norwegian citizen all those important requirements, how to get those requirements. And of course the things that some of you doesn't know on how to change your schedule and everything. Especially now the QDI or ODE or Othlandings directorate, Harry Norge, Shifter or change their rules. So I will share to you my experiences how did I apply last year. First is I get my permanent residency after that I apply for citizenship. If you want to know what are the important requirements on getting a permanent residency, I have another blog about that. I will just put the link there and just watch it. And also there are two things that you can do to have your citizenship. First is you can apply for permanent residency and third that apply for citizenship or you can directly apply as a citizen here in Norway. So I will put the link on the UDE on how to apply for the citizenship. But the requirements differs and of course I will just tell you the important requirements that all of you must have. So before telling those requirements I will just give you a short recap or story on my waiting time on how long did it takes to have my permanent residency. So I received my permanent residency last October 2020 and after that I applied for citizenship last December 21. So I just received the answer from UDI this month, this July. And then after having the answer from the UDE I received a letter in my DIG post. I will share to you the short message on that letter and there is attachment to there. So you will print that attachment and present it in your local district, district in your community or municipality. And then you must apply for a schedule in your police district. You cannot just go there or do walk in. We call it walk in. You just walk in and then you will have the schedule. You need to get your own schedule ahead of time especially now during pandemic so they don't entertains walk in. So you must have your schedule. And then now I will explain to you all those important and necessary requirements if you want to have your citizenship. First is fluency and Norwegian. So now if you want to apply citizen in Norway they already change it from A to B N. So you must pass the B N monthly exam and applicants must complete the 250 to 300 R's in a Norwegian language course. But if you pass the language exam in B N you don't need all those R's. And if you want to know the tips on how to pass the Norwegian language exam I have a video tutorial about that. Just watch it and then also another exam that you must pass is social study exam or some fun school scab. I also have another video tutorial on how to pass the sample school scab exam so just watch it. So now let's move on to the next requirements. Your capability to live in Norway. You must at least earn 319,997 crores in one year. Or you are studying or you studied for almost a year to be qualified as a citizen in Norway and get a support from Lone Casse. So Lone Casse gives scholarship or financial support to those students here in Norway. And the third requirement is you must live in Norway for 6 years for the past 10 years and you must present all your passport from the past 10 years. And you must include all the dates where you go out or travel out of Norway. So you must take note of that. And of course you must have your police clearance or policy attest for staff workers scab. So I will just put the link below and I will show you where you can get your policy attest here. Very easy. Especially now especially in Norway everything is online. And you must also hand in your signature form in UDE, in their website you can download that form and then you must sign it. And of course you must bring your birth certificate and that's it. Make sure that you come on time on your schedule. Now there are other Filipinos that are asking me how to change the schedule. I've been in our local police district here in Trondelag and I've asked them because I'm wondering how to change my schedule. And then the police told me that they are refreshing or updating the schedule every Friday after 12 in the afternoon. So if you want to have a new schedule I will advise to you to change it every Friday at 12 in the afternoon for you to have a schedule. Because I've done that and I've always seen that there's a schedule that is next week. So I can have a schedule on that week if I prefer to have that. So that is one advice, good advice for you if you want to change your schedule. And of course the processing time it differs a lot from the local police district that you applied from your situation. For example me I've been with almost half a year to have my Norwegian citizenship but of course patience is a must. Just wait and every month even though it takes a long period of time to get my Norwegian citizenship every month I receive a letter from UDE that's still there are processing my application. So patience is a very true my friend. And that's all if you have further questions or if you already get your Norwegian passport please comment down below, house your experience and let me know. And if you have any suggestions for my next video feel free to comment down below and thank you for watching. Once again I am Dönita your peniteacher in Norway. Don't forget to like share and subscribe for more updates. Bye!