Revocation of residence permit on the basis of convenience marriage
Supreme Court judgment 22 December 2021, HR-2021-2572-A, (case no. 21-096293SIV-HRET), civil case, appeal against judgment.
A (Counsel Nadin Askeland Humlen) v. The State represented by the Immigration Appeals Board (The Office of the Attorney General represented by Pål Erik Wennerås)
Justices: Øie, Normann, Ringnes, Bergh, Sæther
The Immigration Appeals Board had revoked a residence permit granted to a Nigerian citizen in 2006 on the basis of marriage to a Norwegian woman. The marriage was now considered a circumvention marriage. The Supreme Court found like the previous instances that the revocation decision was valid. It had to be assumed that the content of the non-statutory rules on circumvention marriage up to the entry into force of the Immigration Act 2008 was in accordance with what now follows from section 40 subsection 4 of the Immigration Act. References were made to case law and the practice of the Immigration Appeals Board.