A tour

Somewhere between now and moving day there is an evening where you want to know what has to happen this week.

What you see when you log in

No course, no videos, no community. One workspace that says what you do and when, with the paperwork sitting next to it. Here is what is in it.

1. The personal timeline

You start with an intake of about ten minutes. Your moving date, who is coming with you, which kommune you are landing in if you already know that, and whether you are taking a job or starting out on your own. That is all we ask. Every answer can be changed later.

What you see after that is not a general checklist but a run of steps with dates on them. In a move, order matters more than completeness. Part of the list cannot happen until you are in Norway, because there is an ID check where you have to stand at the counter yourself. Another part has an eight-day clock that starts on the day you move in. And a few things on the Dutch side have to be finished before you go, because afterwards they get a great deal harder.

If your move slips by six months, you change one date and the rest moves with it. That is the reason we do not sell a PDF.

Melde flytting: the eight-day deadline Skatteetaten

2. Bilingual forms and templates

Every form you run into along the way is in here, with the Norwegian text on one side and plain English on the other. Field by field: what it says, what they mean by it, and what happens if you fill it in wrong. Where people trip up, we say why.

Next to those there are letters and emails ready to copy and adjust. An email to the kommune asking how their barnehage application actually runs. A message to a landlord asking what the lease says about the deposit and the notice period. A letter to the Belastingdienst about the date you left. Each one in Norwegian or Dutch, with the English beside it, so you can read what you are sending before you press send.

In a move, order matters more than completeness. The personal timeline

3. A checklist per office

One sheet per counter. What to bring, what they ask, and what you walk out with. So you do not have to make the trip twice.

Most of the frustration does not come from anything being difficult. It comes from standing at the right counter with the wrong piece of paper. For every office below there is a sheet you open on your phone while you are in the queue. They are short. You can tick them off. And each sheet carries the official source, so you can check for yourself whether we have it right.

What an agency asks of you can differ per office and per situation. The source is always the agency itself.

In Norway

Skatteetaten

The folkeregister (national population register), the ID check, and after that your skattekort (tax deduction card). Almost everything that comes later hangs off this.

What to bring
Passport, your rental or purchase contract, your employment contract, and birth certificates for the children.
What they ask
Where you live, how long you intend to stay, and where your income comes from.
What you walk out with
Confirmation that your move has been registered. Your fødselsnummer (national identity number) or D-nummer follows later, by post.

Folkeregisteret Skatteetaten

UDI

Registration for EU and EØS citizens staying longer than three months. Separate from the folkeregister, and with conditions of its own.

What to bring
Passport or ID card, plus proof of what you are here on: an employment contract, enrolment as a student, or your own means.
What they ask
On what grounds you are here and who is coming with you.
What you walk out with
A registreringsbevis, your registration certificate. You will be showing it at other counters for the rest of the year.

Registering as an EU or EØS citizen UDI

Politiet and ID-kontroll

The moments where you stand at the counter yourself and somebody picks up your passport. This is why part of your timeline cannot happen until you have landed.

What to bring
Passport, your appointment confirmation and every paper that belongs to the application. Your children’s as well.
What they ask
Whether you are who you say you are, and whether your papers belong together.
What you walk out with
A completed check, which is what lets the rest of your application move on.

Politiet Politiet

Your kommune

Barnehage (day care and pre-school), school, water, waste and the local rates. Every kommune arranges this itself, so the dates differ from place to place.

What to bring
Your Norwegian address, your fødselsnummer once you have one, and your children’s details.
What they ask
When you want the children to start, and whether you are joining the hovedopptak.
What you walk out with
An application with a date on it, and the answer to which school belongs to your address.

Barnehage and school Utdanningsdirektoratet

Statens vegvesen

Your driving licence and your car. Two separate tracks, each with its own deadlines and its own costs.

What to bring
Dutch driving licence, passport, fødselsnummer, and for a car the registration papers.
What they ask
Since when you have lived in Norway and exactly what you want to bring in.
What you walk out with
An application under way, and a realistic estimate of what your car is going to cost you.

Førerkort Statens vegvesen

NAV

Barnetrygd (child benefit), your membership of the folketrygd (the national insurance scheme), and everything around illness, pregnancy and unemployment.

What to bring
Fødselsnummer, employment contract, your children’s details and the date you left the Netherlands.
What they ask
Since when you have lived here, and what is still running on the Dutch side.
What you walk out with
An application in progress, and clarity about the date from which you are covered for what.

NAV NAV

Altinn

The digital letterbox of the Norwegian state. Post from Skatteetaten, NAV and Brønnøysund arrives here, not on your doormat.

What to bring
An electronic ID. Without one you cannot get in, and for a lot of families that is the first thing that blocks them.
What they ask
Nothing. It is a letterbox, not a counter. But deadlines do start running the moment something drops into it.
What you walk out with
Your own post, and the ability to authorise your partner or your accountant.

Altinn Digitaliseringsdirektoratet

In the Netherlands

Your gemeente

Declaring your departure from the Dutch population register. You need it if you will spend more than eight of the next twelve months outside the Netherlands.

What to bring
Valid proof of identity, your departure date and the address you are moving to.
What they ask
Exactly when you leave and who is going with you.
What you walk out with
Proof of deregistration. Keep it safe, four other offices will want to see it.

Basisregistratie personen Rijksoverheid

Belastingdienst

Your tax return for the year you leave, your toeslagen (Dutch benefit payments) and your mortgage. Your deregistration date drives all three.

What to bring
DigiD, your deregistration date, your Norwegian address and your annual income statements.
What they ask
When you left and what you are keeping on in the Netherlands.
What you walk out with
Benefits stopped, and a tax return that matches the day you actually went.

Belastingdienst Belastingdienst

DUO

Student debt and student finance. A debt simply travels with you, but the way your monthly payment is worked out changes.

What to bring
DigiD, your new address and the Norwegian income you expect.
What they ask
Where you live and what you earn.
What you walk out with
A repayment that fits an income in kroner instead of euros.

DUO DUO

SVB

Child benefit and the AOW, the Dutch state pension you build up year by year. Both hang on living or working in the Netherlands.

What to bring
Your departure date, your Norwegian address and your children’s details.
What they ask
Where you are going to live and where you are going to work.
What you walk out with
An end date for your child benefit, and in writing what happens to the pension you have built up.

SVB SVB

Your health insurer

Your Dutch policy ends once you are no longer required to be insured there. That does not happen on its own, and the date is exact.

What to bring
Your proof of deregistration and the date your Norwegian cover starts.
What they ask
From when you no longer live or work in the Netherlands.
What you walk out with
An end date, and the answer to the only question that counts: is there a gap between the two.

Health insurance Rijksoverheid

4. The glossary

Norwegian bureaucracy has a vocabulary of its own, and the words you need are rarely in a dictionary. Folkeregister, fødselsnummer, D-nummer, skattekort, registreringsbevis, hovedopptak, borettslag, sameie, forkjøpsrett, tinglysing, feriepenger, a-melding. Every word is explained on the spot where you meet it, not in a separate list you never open.

For each word you get what it literally means, what it means for you in practice, and where you are going to run into it. Often that gap is the whole point: feriepenger is not the holiday pay you are used to, and a borettslag is not a Dutch VvE with a Norwegian name on it.

5. Reminders

You get a nudge when something is up, and it hangs on your dates. Not on the day you happened to create an account. Move in May and it is about May. Push it back to November and the reminders move with you.

You switch them on and off yourself, per topic. There is no email sequence that starts running the moment you pay, and there is no offer hidden in them. The only reason we email you is that something in your timeline has a date attached to it.

6. The change log

Rules change, rates change, and forms move to a different page. A guide that keeps quiet about that is more dangerous after a year than no guide at all.

So every part carries a date: when we last held it against the official source. You see the same thing on the free articles in the knowledge base, so you can check whether we do what we say before you buy anything.

The log says what we changed, on what date, and which source prompted it. If a change touches a step that is still open in your timeline, you see it there too. And if you spot something yourself that no longer holds, we would like to hear about it. For us that is the cheapest form of quality control, and for you it is the fastest.

7. Logging in without a password

You type in your email address and you get a link. The link logs you in. There is no password, so there is nothing to forget, nothing to reuse and nothing to lose during a move in which you will lose enough as it is.

Both adults in the household get their own access at their own address. You do not have to share anything, and you both see the same timeline. In practice one of you takes the Norwegian side and the other takes the Dutch side, and that only works if you are not taking turns on one account. Your access does not expire.

Logging in happens on the platform itself, not on this site.

8. Apps for iOS and Android

They do not exist yet. Right now the platform is a website that works properly on a phone: you can put it on your home screen and open it while you are standing in the queue at the counter.

We are building real apps for iOS and Android, mainly because offline access and notifications are simply better on a phone. We are not naming a date, because a date we miss is worse than no date at all. Once they are there, they are part of the access you already have. You do not pay for them again.

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