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The move takes a day. What comes with it takes a year, and most of that year is paperwork.

What is in it, by phase and by side

Two ways to look at the same thing. In order of time, because that is how you live through it. And by country, because two administrations are running past each other the whole way.

Phase by phase

Each phase has its own kind of work. Before departure, it is closing things down. On arrival, it is clocks and counters. The first year is money and paperwork. After that you are settled, and it finally turns into living somewhere.

49 articles · 48 tasks · 15 letters · 18 checklists · 30 glossary terms

  1. Before departure

    Articles

    • AOW and pension: what stops, what stays and what you have to decide now Your Dutch state pension builds up for each year you live or work in the Netherlands, and from your departure that usually stops. The pension you have already built up stays where it is, but the fund can only find you if your address abroad is on record. And there is one decision with a deadline on it.
    • Barnehage: the right to a place and the date that matters A barnehage is not a nursery with a Norwegian name, and applying works differently than you would expect: one main round a year, to the kommune rather than to a barnehage, with a closing date that each kommune sets itself and that usually falls before you move. You can apply without a Norwegian address.
    • Being or becoming pregnant around the move If you move around a pregnancy, you fall under the legislation of one country at a time, and you can fall between the Dutch scheme run by the UWV and the Norwegian foreldrepenger. For foreldrepenger you must have worked in six of the last ten months before your leave, and according to a NAV circular your last job must have been in Norway. The lump sum (engangsstønad, NOK 92,648 in 2026) is only there after twelve months of membership of the folketrygd immediately before the due date. If only the father is entitled, he gets ten weeks with no requirement on the mother; the rest depends on what she does.
    • Bringing in your household goods: the flyttegods declaration Your household goods can come into Norway free of customs duty and VAT if you have been outside Norway for at least a year without a break, used the goods there and bring them with you when you move. You declare them on form RD-0030, with a list of everything that is coming, and hand that in at the red zone on arrival. The car, alcohol and tobacco, food and drink, professional equipment and new goods fall outside the exemption. Whatever comes later has to be in Norway no later than one year after your move.
    • Bringing your pet to Norway A dog, cat or ferret from the Netherlands can come with you if it has a microchip, a valid rabies vaccination and a European pet passport. A dog also needs a tapeworm treatment, with a window counted in hours. Start in good time, because the order is fixed.
    • Closing down VAT when you stop and leave You do not deregister for VAT separately. You deregister your business with KVK, and the Belastingdienst tells you whether you still have to file a final VAT return. Until then you keep filing, even if you already live in Norway.
    • Deregistering with your gemeente: the date that sets everything off Deregistering is over in no time and feels like a formality. It is the opposite. For the authorities, the date you give is when your health insurance stops, when your benefits stop, when your state pension stops building and where your tax year is cut in two.
    • Deregistering your eenmanszaak with KVK Deregistering with KVK is free and can be done online with DigiD, from Norway too. Do it last, because KVK passes it on to the Belastingdienst and your business bank account depends on your registration. The date you choose counts for tax.
    • DigiD and your passport: two things that are much harder from Norway Your Dutch life carries on: tax returns, pensions, the SVB. All of it needs DigiD, and DigiD is easiest to sort out while you still live here. Renewing a passport from Norway costs a journey to Oslo and takes plenty of planning.
    • ENK or AS: choosing a business form as a newcomer In Norway the choice is usually between an enkeltpersonforetak (ENK) and an aksjeselskap (AS). The difference lies in liability, capital, tax and the paperwork every year. Your Dutch eenmanszaak or BV does not simply move with you.
    • Four ways to earn your living in Norway For your social security, the main rule looks neither at your contract nor at the country your employer is in, but at the place where you actually do the work. Whether you are employed by a Norwegian employer, work from home for your Dutch employer or are self-employed, as a rule you end up in the same place, namely Norwegian social security and Norwegian tax on what you earn in Norway. The routes differ in who pays over the tax and contributions, in the ground on which you register and in what the Netherlands keeps. Your Dutch job is not automatically your ground for residence, and living on a pension or your own means works differently.
    • Importing your car and exchanging your driving licence Two things that get confused constantly, on different clocks. You declare the car when you arrive; after that it can run on Dutch plates for thirty days at most, and as someone moving here you still pay VAT and import tax — often enough to make selling in the Netherlands the cheaper answer. Your licence stays valid, but it can no longer be renewed in the Netherlands, so exchange it before it expires.
    • Moving to Norway as a married couple: which country decides who owns what Living in Norway does not by itself bring a married couple under Norwegian felleseie, the regime in which property is divided equally as the starting point on divorce or death. Norway has no statute for it; according to a committee report from 2025, the law that keeps applying is that of the country where you first lived together after you married. The Netherlands looks at your wedding date, and for marriages between 1 September 1992 and 29 January 2019 with no huwelijkse voorwaarden (a Dutch marriage contract) and no choice of law, the applicable law can switch after ten years in Norway. This article sets the two systems side by side and says what to ask a notaris and a Norwegian advokat.
    • Moving with a child without the other parent If you share parental authority with the other parent, you decide together on a move to Norway; the Dutch government's travel form covers the journey only. If the other parent says no, you can ask the court to decide, and according to the Dutch judiciary that takes at least six weeks and sometimes more than a year. If only one parent is going to live in Norway, UDI asks for the other parent's consent, confirmed by a notarius publicus, or a ruling that you have sole parental authority. Skatteetaten records parental authority as unknown for parents who are not married to each other, and for one parent who arrives alone with the child without proof.
    • On paper your health cover joins up; in practice there is a gap Your Dutch basic policy ends by itself as soon as you no longer live or work in the Netherlands. According to NAV, your membership of the Norwegian folketrygd usually starts on the day you arrive or your first working day. On paper that joins up. In practice it can take weeks before you have a number and a fastlege, and failing to bridge that is the most expensive mistake in this whole move.
    • Pension in eigen beheer when you emigrate Since 1 July 2017 you can no longer build up a pension in your own BV. What you built up before is still in the BV, as a pension or as an old-age obligation. When you emigrate you get a protective assessment on it, and the BV cannot simply be closed.
    • Renting in Norway: what your contract needs to say As a rule you can end a fixed-term Norwegian lease early, unless the landlord has told you in writing that you cannot. An end date less than three years away only stands if the landlord is going to use the home themselves or has another well-founded reason, and you were given that reason in writing by the time you signed; for an attic or basement flat in a detached house, or a home in a two-family house, one year is allowed if the landlord lives in the same house. The deposit is at most six months' rent and sits in an account in your name, never in the landlord's. This article is also for anyone who wants to buy and is renting first.
    • Retiring to Norway: AOW, the CAK and who taxes what Your AOW, the Dutch state pension, comes with you to Norway, but the deductions change and from now on the SVB hears about changes only from you. For healthcare you stay under the Netherlands, through the CAK. That cover is compulsory, you pay a contribution for it, and the S1 form you are given goes to Helfo. Under the tax treaty the Netherlands may go on taxing AOW, pensions and annuities; Norway taxes them too and gives credit for the Dutch tax.
    • Samboer in Norway: what the law does not give you Living together without marrying is entirely normal in Norway, but no statutory arrangement for what you own comes with it. Each of you keeps what is yours, and with no child in common a samboer inherits only under a will. According to the Rijksoverheid, the Dutch central government, your Dutch samenlevingscontract (cohabitation agreement) gives you no rights abroad; what Norway does with it is something to have checked by an advokat and a notaris. And when unmarried parents arrive from abroad with their children, Skatteetaten as a rule records parental responsibility as unknown, until they have it changed themselves.
    • Taking your Dutch job with you to Norway If you live in Norway and work only there, the main rule is that you come under Norwegian social security, even with a Dutch employer. The 25 per cent test and the framework agreement on telework are only for people who still work in the Netherlands as well. Your employer takes on duties of its own in Norway, such as an organisation number, a monthly payroll return, withholding against your skattekort and arbeidsgiveravgift (14.1 per cent in 2026 for an employer with no registered address in Norway). Your salary is taxed in Norway; the Netherlands may also tax what you earn on the days you work in the Netherlands, and Norway gives credit for that tax.
    • The ground on which you may stay, and how you prove it As a Dutch national you do not need a permit in Norway, but after three months each of you has to come under one of six grounds for residence: work, a business of your own, a posting, study, your own means or being a family member. A partner without a job registers as a family member, an unmarried partner usually only after two years of living together or with a child in common; if you carry on working for a Dutch employer, ask UDI before you leave which ground fits, because UDI's guideline asks for an employer actually operating in Norway. On your own means UDI asks for private insurance and, for one person, usually at least NOK 255,191 a year; the rate that figure is tied to has been NOK 263,191 since 1 May 2026. The registreringsbevis (registration certificate) does not prove your right of residence: your own documents do, and UDI asks for them again after five years.
    • The order that decides everything Two deadlines count from the day you arrive in Norway: within three months you register with the police, and within three months and eight days you report your move to Skatteetaten in person, together with everyone who is moving with you. After that your fødselsnummer arrives; the bank and BankID require a Norwegian identity number. Three things must not wait for your fødselsnummer: your skattekort, the application for barnetrygd and school for your children.
    • The tax treaty between the Netherlands and Norway in outline The Netherlands and Norway have a treaty that decides which country may tax which income. It stops you paying twice; you make that work through your tax returns in both countries. Here is which country may tax each kind of income.
    • Wills and inheritance between two countries If you live in Norway when you die, Norwegian inheritance law applies as the main rule, even if your will was made in the Netherlands. That law reserves two thirds of the estate for the children, up to 15 times the grunnbeløp (G) per child; alongside children the spouse inherits a quarter, and at least 4 G. You can choose Dutch law, but Norway sets three conditions: you are not a Norwegian citizen when you die, the choice is made expressly in a will, and your partner knew about it. Norway charges no inheritance tax; the Netherlands still counts a Dutch national as resident for ten years after leaving.
    • Your BV when you move to Norway yourself A BV does not move with you, but where it is resident for tax depends partly on where it is managed. As a director-major shareholder you also get a protective assessment on your shares when you leave. These are the facts; you make the choice with an adviser.
    • Your eenmanszaak: close it or carry on from Norway If you move to Norway, you usually deregister your eenmanszaak in the Netherlands. If you no longer work in the Netherlands, you close it and settle up with the Belastingdienst. If you take the business with you, you settle up too, but you can get a deferral against security.
    • Your house in the Netherlands: three options and what each one means Sell, keep it empty or let it: with each of the three, the Netherlands and Norway are both looking at your house. In the Netherlands a house that stands empty and is for sale remains your own home for tax for three years at most; whether that also holds after you have emigrated is something to ask the Belastingdienst. In Norway the sale is tax-free as long as you lived there yourself for twelve of the last 24 months. Letting is possible by three routes, each with its own tenancy law, and only once your bank has given permission.
    • Your money in the first eighteen months: what stops, what starts and when Dutch money does not stop on the day you leave: toeslagen, the Dutch allowances, count by the calendar month and kinderbijslag, the Dutch child benefit, by the quarter. Norwegian money starts only once you have applied, and barnetrygd, the Norwegian child benefit, is as a rule backdated by no more than three months. Most newcomers come under kildeskatt på lønn first and then get no skattemelding (the Norwegian tax return) and no settlement; under the ordinary rules you get both. This article puts the months in order, for both countries.
    • Your Norwegian employment contract Your employer must give you a written contract no later than seven days after your first working day. The law sets a floor, namely a working week of no more than 40 hours, four weeks and a day of holiday, 10.2 per cent feriepenger and no general minimum wage. What many Norwegian employees have (37.5 hours, five weeks, 12 per cent) comes from a tariffavtale or from the contract itself. A trial period applies only if it is in your contract, and outside the trial period your notice period as a rule only starts to run on the first day of the following month.

    Tasks

    • Apply for a barnehage place for your child
    • Arrange bringing your pet into Norway
    • Arrange the other parent's consent
    • Ask for your medical records, and sort out your medicines for the transition
    • Book your ID-kontroll appointment
    • Check how long your passport is still valid
    • Choose your business structure in Norway
    • Collect these before you go
    • Collect your certificates and the apostille before you leave
    • Deregister from your Dutch municipality
    • Download your children's vaccination record, and sort out their DigiD first
    • End your Dutch health insurance as of your departure
    • Have it determined where you are insured, and have your employer register in Norway
    • Have your will checked against two legal systems
    • Register with the CAK and send your S1 to Helfo
    • Tell the SVB and your pension funds that you are moving
    • Tell the SVB you have moved
    • Wind up your Dutch business

    Letters

    • Asking the SVB when your child benefit stops
    • Cancelling your contents, liability and car insurance when you leave
    • Emailing the kommune about a barnehage place
    • Ending your Dutch health insurance on your departure date
    • Filing your departure with the Dutch municipality
    • Telling the Belastingdienst that your eenmanszaak is closing
    • Writing to the Belastingdienst about your departure date and country of residence
    • Writing to your Dutch employer about what changes when you work from Norway

    Checklists

    • All the deadlines in one place
    • At customs with the removal van
    • Before you sign a tenancy agreement
    • Deregistering at the gemeente
    • DUO before you leave, for your student debt or student finance
    • Telling the SVB you are leaving
    • Telling your Dutch health insurer you are leaving
    • The Belastingdienst around your move
    • Your Dutch insurance when you leave

  2. Arrival

    Articles

    • Altinn: your role, authorisations and access for your regnskapsfører What you can do for your business in Altinn follows from your role in the Enhetsregisteret. Since 2026 you give others access with tilgangspakker instead of the old Altinn roles. A regnskapsfører registered in the Enhetsregisteret already has the basic access; you give the rest yourself.
    • Bookkeeping duty and the regnskapsfører: what you do yourself and what you hand over Almost every business in Norway must keep accounts, and an AS also files annual accounts every year. You may do it yourself. If you hand it over, it can only go to a firm approved by Finanstilsynet, and even then the responsibility stays with you.
    • Electricity in Norway: nettleie, Norgespris and strømstønad A Norwegian electricity bill has three parts: nettleie to the grid company for your address, power from a supplier you choose yourself, and taxes. Against high prices there are two schemes that cannot be combined: strømstønad, which you get automatically, and Norgespris, a fixed price of 40 øre per kWh excluding mva up to and including 31 December 2026, which you order yourself. That choice belongs to the meter and not to you. So for every home, ask the landlord or the seller whether the meter is already tied in.
    • Helsestasjon: the child health clinic and what they want to see from you The helsestasjon follows every child free of charge from birth until school starts, with fourteen fixed contacts up to the age of four, and after that the school health service takes over; the law requires parents to cooperate with the check-ups. If you bring a child with you, do not count on it starting by itself: Oslo kommune leaves it to the family to make itself known, so check with your own kommune. What they want to see is a written vaccination record, because a dose you cannot prove may be given again. In the public dental service, treatment for children is free up to and including the year they turn eighteen; braces are not.
    • ID-kontroll and the D-nummer: why this comes first Almost everything in Norway — a bank account, a tax card — starts with a number you only get after someone at Skatteetaten has held your passport or, if you are an EU/EEA citizen, your identity card. That visit is called ID-kontroll, and it is the first thing you arrange.
    • Off sick in Norway: egenmelding, sykmelding and who pays what When you are ill in Norway you get your full pay up to a ceiling of NOK 819,294 a year (from 1 May 2026): sixteen days from your employer, then from NAV, for 52 weeks at most. As a newcomer you do not have that straight away. For the first four weeks your employer does not have to pay, for the first two months you have no right to sick pay without a certificate from a doctor, and that certificate cannot be backdated. So see a doctor on your first day of illness, even if you do not have a fastlege yet.
    • On your own with children in Norway: what you get and what stops If you are bringing up children on your own in Norway, you can get utvidet barnetrygd on top of ordinary barnetrygd: NOK 2,572 a month from 1 February 2026, backdated by three months at most. The relationship has to be over for that; a partner who stays behind in the Netherlands does not make you a single parent as far as NAV is concerned. Child maintenance is something you agree between you or ask NAV to set; Skatteetaten does the collecting, and you only get the advance from NAV if collection runs through Skatteetaten. In the Netherlands kinderbijslag usually stops, and the kindgebonden budget that hangs on it is then yours to stop, by phone; if the Netherlands tops up your barnetrygd, the SVB pays it out instead.
    • Registering as an EU citizen: one form, one appointment As a Dutch national you do not need a residence permit in Norway. If you are staying longer than three months, you do need to register. That is one form online with UDI and one appointment with the police.
    • Registering in Brønnøysund: two registers, one form Every business starts in the Enhetsregisteret, where it gets its organisasjonsnummer. An AS must also be in the Foretaksregisteret; an ENK hardly ever. You do both with one form in Altinn. The VAT register comes afterwards, at Skatteetaten.
    • Sick pay when you are self-employed: what NAV pays and how to top it up With an ENK you get less than an employee when you are ill, 80 per cent from the seventeenth day. If you are employed by your own AS, the rules for employees apply. You can insure yourself for more with NAV, with a four-week waiting period from your application. So decide in your first weeks.
    • The skattekort and your first skattemelding Two things that follow on from each other. Without a tax card your employer withholds far too much every month, and you feel it immediately. The tax return arrives pre-filled, and the temptation is to leave it alone — which is exactly where the Dutch instinct gets expensive here.
    • What you can do without a fødselsnummer In your first weeks in Norway you have no number yet, after that sometimes a D-nummer, and only later a fødselsnummer. A fastlege waits for your fødselsnummer; an electricity contract waits for a fødselsnummer or a D-nummer. Your child's school and a SIM card do not wait, and for barnetrygd NAV has an application you send by post, with no login. For a bank account you need a Norwegian identity number, according to Skatteetaten; whether a bank will take you on with a D-nummer and give you BankID is something no official source says, so you ask the bank.
    • Your first payslip and the year without feriepenger Feriepenger is not a holiday allowance on top of your pay. It replaces the pay you lose while you are on holiday and you build it up in the calendar year before, so in the year you start your holiday is, as a rule, unpaid. On your payslip the same percentage usually comes off every month that year (kildeskatt på lønn, 25 per cent in 2026), June and December included. If your employer closes in the summer, they can impose those weeks on you as holiday.

    Tasks

    • Apply for barnetrygd at NAV
    • Apply for utvidet barnetrygd
    • Apply for your skattekort
    • Arrange your electricity contract once you have a number
    • Check your contact details and choose a digital mailbox
    • Choose a fastlege
    • Decide on sick-pay insurance with NAV
    • Give your regnskapsfører access in Altinn
    • Have your car registered in Norway
    • Open a Norwegian bank account
    • Plan your first summer: feriepenger does not come until next year
    • Register with the police as an EU/EEA citizen
    • Register your business in Brønnøysund
    • Register your child at school
    • Voluntary AOW insurance: decide within a year of leaving

    Letters

    • Applying for a skattekort on paper (RF-1209)
    • Asking a Norwegian bank for an account and BankID
    • Asking NAV to confirm your membership of the folketrygd
    • Asking your landlord about the deposit and notice period
    • Telling your regnskapsfører what access you gave in Altinn
    • Your first message to your new fastlege

    Checklists

    • First contact with your kommune
    • Getting into Altinn and giving access
    • Going to the ID-kontroll at Skatteetaten
    • NAV after you arrive, for your membership and barnetrygd
    • Registering with the police
    • Registering your business in Brønnøysund and setting up Altinn
    • Your first appointment at the bank
    • Your first week in your new home

  3. First year

    Articles

    • Formuesskatt: Norway taxes your wealth, including what is in the Netherlands If you are resident in Norway for tax, you pay formuesskatt, the Norwegian wealth tax, on your net wealth worldwide, including the house and the savings in the Netherlands. In 2026 you pay nothing on the first NOK 1,900,000 per person, or NOK 3,800,000 for spouses who are assessed jointly. A house in the Netherlands counts for no more than 30 per cent of its market value, and the mortgage comes off. Since a protocol of 2013 the tax treaty no longer covers wealth, and the Netherlands goes on taxing the house in box 3 as well.
    • OTP: the compulsory pension for your employees Most employers in Norway must set up a pension scheme for their employees, the obligatorisk tjenestepensjon (OTP). A single full-time employee with no shares can be enough. When the duty arises, who must be included, what it costs at minimum and where to arrange it.
    • Registering for mva and your first mva-melding In Norway you only charge mva once your turnover passes a threshold, and then you register yourself, with Skatteetaten. After that you file six returns a year rather than four, on dates you will not know from the Netherlands.
    • Tax return and advance tax when you run a business As a business owner you pay your tax in advance, in instalments you adjust yourself, and your business's tax return is due a month later than an employee's. In your first year Skatteetaten does not know your profit yet. You tell them.
    • The year you leave is a different tax year The year you emigrate is cut in two: part of it as a resident, part as a non-resident taxpayer. That produces a return unlike any other year's. You may get money back. Sometimes you owe a great deal.
    • Your first employee: the a-melding and your duties as an employer Take someone on and you become an employer, however small your ENK or AS. That brings a monthly a-melding, employer's national insurance contributions, a written contract within seven days, compulsory occupational injury insurance and holiday pay. Here is the overview.

    Tasks

    • Become an employer for your first employee
    • Check your forskuddsskatt
    • Check your skattemelding
    • Check your skattemelding (self-employed)
    • Exchange your driving licence for a Norwegian one
    • File your business's skattemelding
    • File your Dutch return for the year you left
    • File your mva returns on time
    • Find a Norwegian course and get started
    • Register your business for mva

    Letters

    • Explaining your sole proprietorship's advance tax to Skatteetaten

    Checklists

    • Going to a trafikkstasjon at Statens vegvesen

  4. Settled

    Articles

    • Buying a house in Norway The budrunde is the part a Dutch buyer is least prepared for: bids are binding, it is often over in a morning, and a cooling-off period does not exist. Alongside it, three things to know in advance: the condition report, boplikt and konsesjon, and the transfer duty.

    Tasks

    • Check the pension you are building in Norway
    • Get your bearings before buying a house
    • Keep an eye on when your driving licence expires
    • Keep an eye on when your residence document expires
    • Renew your passport from Norway

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Which steps you get to see depends on your intake: with or without children, employed or self-employed, renting or buying.

Country by country

Emigrating is not one administration but two, and they do not talk to each other. What you leave lying in the Netherlands comes back a year later, usually as a letter you never receive in Norway.

The Dutch side

This stays yours, even once you no longer live there. Part of it can only be arranged while you are still on the register.
  • The BRP: declaring your departure, and the proof of deregistration you will need four more times
  • Belastingdienst: the M-form, your toeslagen and your mortgage interest deduction
  • Your health insurance: the end date, and the gap until your Norwegian cover starts
  • SVB: child benefit and the AOW state pension you are building up
  • DUO: a student debt travels with you, but the calculation changes
  • Your Dutch bank: what a bank makes of a foreign address
  • Your eenmanszaak or BV: keep it running, wind it up, or move it (in Moving + Business)
  • Your passport, your DigiD and your right to vote
  • A house you hold on to: letting it, the mortgage, and the tax return that comes with it

Official sources

The Norwegian side

This only starts once you are here, and most of it runs in an order you do not get to choose. Without the first, the second will not work.
  • Folkeregister: flyttemelding, ID-kontroll and your fødselsnummer
  • Skattekort and skattemelding, and the question of which country taxes what
  • UDI and the police: registering as an EU or EØS citizen
  • NAV: barnetrygd, folketrygd, sick leave, pregnancy and parental leave
  • Your kommune: barnehage, school, fastlege and the local rates
  • Statens vegvesen: your driving licence and your car
  • Altinn and electronic ID: your digital post and your digital signature
  • Renting or buying: husleiekontrakt, deposit, borettslag and sameie
  • Working: arbeidsavtale, feriepenger, OTP and notice periods
  • Running a business: Brønnøysundregistrene, company form, MVA and bokføring (in Moving + Business)

Official sources

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Flyttemelding: registering your address in Norway within eight days

You are here. The boxes are in the hallway and nobody has slept. This is the first thing with a clock on it, and it takes twenty minutes.

What it is

The flyttemelding is the notification to the folkeregister, the national population register, that you live at a new address. Skatteetaten keeps that register. The address in it decides which kommune you belong to, and so who arranges your barnehage, which school is yours and where your post goes. Almost every agency you deal with after this looks in the register first and at you second.

The eight days

You report a move within eight days. The clock starts on the day you actually began living at the new address. Not the day your lease starts, not the day the container was unloaded. Everyone who moves with you gets reported, children included.

From abroad, or within Norway

These are two different notifications. Moving within Norway, you file it electronically with Skatteetaten using your electronic ID. Coming from abroad, you report that you are moving to Norway, and that comes with an ID check you attend in person. Not every skattekontor carries out that check, so find out beforehand which office near you does, and whether you need an appointment. To be registered as a resident, you have to intend to stay in Norway for at least six months.

Where people get stuck

  • You do not have a permanent home yet. You report the address where you really live now. If you move to your permanent address two months later, you report again and the eight-day clock starts over.
  • Registering as an EU or EØS citizen with UDI or the police is a different thing from this notification. They stand apart, with their own conditions and their own papers.
  • An address that is wrong works its way into everything that follows: your skattekort, your post from NAV, and the school attached to your address. It can be corrected, but that costs more time than getting it right the first time.

What to bring

  • A valid passport or ID card for everyone moving with you
  • The rental or purchase contract, with the address written out in full
  • The date you actually started living at this address
  • Birth certificates for the children, and your marriage certificate if you have one
  • Your electronic ID, if you already hold a Norwegian one

Official sources

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