Free Nordic planning tool
Record residence years, time abroad and a planned absence, then identify which status-specific continuity rule you need to verify before travelling or applying for PR/citizenship.
Your scenario
Nothing is prefilled. Use figures from the job offer, home, institution, route or trip you are actually considering.
Question this tool answers
What residence/absence record should you bring to the authority before a long trip or PR/citizenship application?
Create a clean absence record before checking the legal rule for your exact status. The tool deliberately does not label you eligible or ineligible because national PR, EU/EEA permanent rights and citizenship use different clocks.
Your result
Enter your real residence and absence record. No example values are prefilled.
This is a record-keeping and question-preparation tool. It does not calculate legal continuous residence or replace an authority's status-specific absence rules.
Inputs that matter
What it does not prove
The tool does not calculate legal continuous residence or decide whether an absence breaks PR or citizenship eligibility.
Best next step
Use the result as a filter, then verify the decision in the detailed guide and current source.
Read the residence-continuity guide →After you calculate
01
Identify the exact legal status on your decision/card.
02
Read the country/status-specific absence rule.
03
Keep travel and permit evidence before the application year.
FAQ
Example values can make a planning tool look more precise than it is. The fields start empty so the result is based on your own offer, rent, household, route or travel assumptions. Placeholders show the expected format only and are not used in the calculation.
The tool does not calculate legal continuous residence or decide whether an absence breaks PR or citizenship eligibility. Use the result to compare scenarios, then verify the relevant current source or detailed guide before making a financial, immigration, study, housing or travel commitment.
Editorial method
Evidence and primary sources
The source list records what each page was used for, the relevant data period where available and when we checked it. A broad homepage is avoided when a more specific official table or guidance page supports the claim.
UDI states that Norwegian permanent residence can lapse after a continuous stay abroad of two years or more, or multiple stays totalling two years or more in a four-year period, subject to stated counting rules and exemptions. Permission to keep PR can be available in specified circumstances.
Used for: Permanent-residence absence and lapse rules
Data period: Current 2026 guidance
Checked
2026-08-17
EU citizens normally acquire permanent residence after five years of continuous legal residence. Continuity can be preserved by temporary absences within the stated limits and by a single longer absence for important reasons in defined circumstances.
Used for: Five-year EU permanent-residence continuity framework
Data period: Current guidance checked 2026
Checked
2026-08-17
Applications submitted from 8 January 2026 use new permanent-residence pathways, including a six-year route with work-history and language conditions and specified four-year alternatives such as a EUR 40,000 taxable-income pathway and qualifying Finnish higher-education route.
Used for: Permanent-residence pathways effective 8 January 2026
Data period: 2026
Checked
2026-08-17
Icelandic permanent residence is route- and history-dependent. Current guidance includes secure-support and Icelandic-language/integration conditions, with defined exemptions such as certain applicants over 65 with long residence.
Used for: Current PR support and language/integration framework
Data period: 2026
Checked
2026-08-17
Read next
Plan Nordic permanent residence and citizenship without losing track of travel: understand continuous residence, absence limits, permit gaps and why each status uses a different clock.
Understand when long stays outside Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland or Iceland can threaten permanent status, and what to check before a long move abroad.
Understand what permanent residence, permanent right of residence, long-term EU status and citizenship actually change in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
Continue with this related Nordic Life Guide page.
