Here is my part two of the question and answer portion so i encourage everyone to share your personal experience too.
I have personally experienced quite an amount of encounter with udi application and i have a lot to share about it. But before you continue reading please keep in mind this information from udi regarding who can apply while inside Norway:
Most people have to apply via an embassy and wait for an answer in their home country. However, some people can submit an application in Norway or travel to Norway while waiting for their application to be processed.
This applies to you if
you are an EU/EEA national, or
you are the family member of an EU/EEA national and you have applied through the residence card scheme, or
you do not need a visa to visit Norway and you belong to one of these groups:
you apply for family immigration with your spouse, cohabitant or parent (children need the approval of both parents)
you are the mother or father of a child who is a Norwegian citizen, if the child is living with you on a permanent basis
you are qualified as a skilled worker
*reminder: although i can say i have met a few who are non degree holder and non skilled worker who were able to apply while inside Norway.
Questions:
1. Is it difficult to prepare the papers i need while on tourist visa? or Will there be enough time to prepare this since some gets 1 month, 2 months, 3 months allowable visits only?
Answer: Yes it is easy and fast as long as you know what you are doing, when and where you need to complete and
submit them
2. When should i start the process?
Answer: It is ideal that you prepare your part of the requirements prior to coming to Norway especially if you are only here for a month, because for the our norwegian counterparts they can get their documents with just a phone call or an online request and it will be there in a week sometimes in 2 days.
Make sure that you secure a schedule at portal that is within the validity of your current tourist visa so count day one as the day you entered a schengen area and that is when your validity starts and ends at the nth day of your approved date of stay.
3. Which requirements should be followed in application for fiance visa?
Answer: For the checklist and other requirements you will need to follow the one in the UDI page and not the embassy website in your country as they are different. Remember you are applying inside norway and not in your country.
*reminder: certificate of no marriage must not be older than 4 months.
*Advice(you can take it or disregard it):if within 3-4 months and there is no result yet it is ideal that you call UDI to request for a proof of legal stay and permission to get married because a fiance permit is valid for 6 months only and they may cover the waiting period so you wouldn't want any possible complication with the computation of months. Then get married, once you have that letter from udi you can bring that to skatteetaten as your proof of legal stay to get married. Then submit your scanned marriage cert to udi here Forwarding documents to UDI and then call udi to change your application from fiance to family reunification as spouse. There will be no additional fee and the waiting time will just continue from when you started with the fiance application the difference is you are now waiting for an actual residence permit.
4.How about those who got married in norway and plan to apply too while still on a tourist visa?
Answer: After you got married the wedding official will hand you a marriage certificate but that one isn't registered in skatteetaten yet. So you may want to wait for the registered one that you will receive in your mail box from skatteetaten. If you are running out of time you can use the one that the wedding official handed you then when you receive the registered one scan it and send it as an additional document to udi here Forwarding documents to UDI
5. What are the advantages of applying while in Norway?
A. You wait for your result with your partner.
B. You can start getting used to the culture and weather and the community
C. No heartbreaking goodbye at the airport. ( sounds too cheesy but for us this is really a big deal)
6. What are the disadvantage of applying while in Norway?
A.your are not allowed to set foot outaide Norway territory while the result is not out,
B.you are not allowed to work
C.you may be able to apply in norskkurse but you will pay(though there are few kommunes that are kind enough to let you take it for free even if you don't have the permit yet),
D.The return ticket that you bought while coming on a tourist visa is already money lost.
E.If in case it gets denied you will need to go home.
F. Obviously case have a high chance that UDI will decide so waiting time will be 9 months and above.
*disclaimer: there are lucky ones who got theirs approved in 3 days and some in 2 months.
Reminder: Every application is unique so one cannot compare to the other. And one cannot expect the same result as the other. If you have doubts whether the politi will accept or reject your application better ask them first because there are cases that they don't accept or they accept but ask the applicant to go home.
-every application is a risk-