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Svalbard: Visa not required [1] Unlimited [2] Customarily, anyone of any nationality may live and work freely in Svalbard. [3] Travelers arriving and departing by air require some type of state-issued travel document. [1] [4] Travelers transiting through the Schengen area, including mainland Norway, must have a Schengen visa.
She has now captured her home’s serenity, sparkling in shades of blue, in a new photobook titled “Life on Svalbard.” “When you live here, you really get immersed in it; the quiet and ...
[5] Svalbard has a high cost of living, but only a limited welfare system. Welfare and health care is available only for Norwegians and for workers employed by a Norwegian company. [7] The Norwegian Nationality Act applies to Svalbard, see Section 1. However, the Act does not provide any special rules for foreign nationals residing on Svalbard.
The Svalbard reindeer (R. tarandus platyrhynchus) is a distinct subspecies; although it was previously almost extinct, it can be legally hunted (as can Arctic fox). [161] It has also been documented that polar bears, desperate for food, hunt and successfully kill Svalbard reindeer. [ 175 ]
Residents of Spitsbergen do not need visas for Schengen but are prohibited from reaching Svalbard from mainland Norway without them. People without a means of income can be rejected as residents by the governor. [39] Citizens of any treaty signatory country may visit the island without a visa. [40] Russia retains a consulate in Barentsburg. [41]
For those like Blomdahl, who live outside the village, that means they must carry a firearm whenever they go outside. Svalbard may not have a bookstore or a hospital, but it does have what ...
Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.
Everybody may live and work in Svalbard indefinitely regardless of country of citizenship. Svalbard Treaty grants treaty nationals equal right of abode as Norwegian nationals. Non-treaty nationals may live and work indefinitely visa-free as well. "Regulations concerning rejection and expulsion from Svalbard" is in force on non-discriminatory basis.