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Norway is a member state of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the Schengen Area. All Norwegian nationals have automatic and permanent permission to live and work in any European Union (EU) or EFTA country. Any person born to at least one Norwegian parent receives citizenship at birth, regardless of the place of birth.
John Norem (11 November 1888 – 12 May 1976) was a Norwegian barrister and politician. He was a member of the Storting from 1925 to 1933, and County Governor of Rogaland from 1933 to 1958 (except during the German occupation ).
Descendants of Kola Norwegians are eligible for Norwegian citizenship after one year of living in Norway with a residence permit. [5] By 2004, approximately 200 Kola Norwegians had settled in Norway. [6] In 2007, the small village of Port-Vladimir , the last stronghold of the Kola Norwegians lost its official recognition due to depopulation. [7]
In 1910, after five years of service as Norway's honorary consul in Chicago, he decided to move back to Norway and renounce his U.S. citizenship to enter the Norwegian diplomatic service, though he was left stateless until he had fulfilled the two-year residency period to gain Norwegian citizenship. [115] [116] [117] 1910: 1910: Too early ...
John Albert Thompson (born Jon Torsteinsson Rue; April 30, 1827 – May 15, 1876), nicknamed Snowshoe Thompson, an early resident of the Sierra Nevada of Nevada and California, was a Norwegian-American considered to be the father of California skiing.
Norwegian Americans are primarily descendants of 19th or early 20th century working class and rural Norwegians, and the traditions which these immigrants brought with them represented a specific segment of the Norwegian population and cultural period. As these traditions continued to evolve in an American context, they are today divergent from ...
This is a list of notable Norwegian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup.
Mutt and Jeff were two Norwegian spies who worked for the United Kingdom and MI5 and were members of the Double Cross System. In April 1941 two Norwegians, John "Helge" Moe (Mutt) and Tor Glad (Jeff) fetched up on a remote Aberdeenshire beach in Scotland, having travelled by seaplane and rubber dinghy. They immediately turned themselves in to ...