New opening hours at the Directorate of Immigration.
As of September 15, 2010, the Directorate?s reception and telephone swithchboard will be open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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FBI Criminal Record Check for citizens and residents of the U.S.A.
As of September 1, 2010, individuals who have resided in the U.S.A. during the past five years, who intend to apply for a residence permit in Iceland, must submit a Criminal Record Check issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Updated report
The EU Commission has issued an informative note, with respect to persons holding a short-stay visa that expired on or after April 15, 2010. The passport of these persons should be stamped upon exit without considering these persons as having stayed beyond the period of allowed stay.
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Extension of Schengen visas due to airport closures
If your Schengen visas is expiring and you cannot leave Iceland because of aiport closures, you can get your visa extended at the Directorate?s office at Skógarhlíð 6, Reykjavík. You need to bring your passport and one passport size photo.
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- The Directorate´s office will be closed Friday, February 26, 2010.
- New places for applying for visas in London and Bangkok.
- Citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia no longer require visas to visit Iceland.
- Fees for processing applications for residence permits increased on January 1st, 2010.
- Opening hours over the holidays
- Certificates issued for Icelandic language tests for citizenship are also valid as certificates of knowledge of Icelandic when applying for a Permanent Residence Permit.
- Accredited Icelandic course a condition for a permanent residence permit.
- Adjustment period with respect to workers from Romania and Bulgaria extended until 2012.
- Questions with respect to specific areas of residence permits will be answered during allotted telephone hours as follows:
- Renewals of residence permits.
- Original documents
- The Act on Foreigners No. 96/2002 will be amended, effective August 1st, 2008.
- Questions with respect to specific areas of residence permits will be answered during allotted telephone hours as follows:
- New procedure in processing applications from EEA citizens.
- Opening hours during the holidays at the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration
- New residence permit card.
- All District Commissioners are now able to take photos of applicants
- Please notice that information about financial support have been changed
- Citizens of Rommania and Bulgaria
- New type of Residence Permit Cards being issued by the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration and applications being accepted by District Commissioner Offices.
- Changes in processing time for residence permit applications of EEA nationals.
- A new procedure concerning processing fee
- No changes in application procedure for citizens of Romania and Bulgaria.
- Opening hours at the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration for the Christmas holidays
- Custody documentation, criminal record certificates and medical certificates
- The Directorate of Immigration always asks for originals of custody documentation - not declarations from parents/custodians.
- The Directorate conducted the first round-table discussion of organizations, agencies and individuals on October 25.
- Round table discussion at the Directorate of Immigration
- Payments for applications for residence permits.
- Further to a news article in Morgunblaðið on September 21, 2006, “Hversu dýrt er að fæða?” (How expensive is it to give birth?)
- There have been changes to the telephone hours of the Directorate with respect to enquiries
- Residence permits for children under the age of 18
- Renewal of Residence Permits
- Processing fee for permits
- Seminars for The Directorate's staff
- Adaption provisions no longer apply.
- Increased numbers of residence permits.
