You must hand in these documents when you apply for a residence permit (Immigration Regulations § 6-14) Checklist for independent contractor (self-employed person with a company abroad)

• If you hand in your application in Norway, you normally only need to show your passport and hand in the copies.
• If you hand in your application abroad, you must normally hand in both your passport and the copies. If you need your passport back before you receive an answer to your application, please contact the place where you hand in the application. 

The signature form is the attachment you received via email when you registered your application online. Please print it and bring it with you. If you are handing in your application at a Danish embassy, please bring a filled-out application form instead. (www.udi.no/forms)

This can be a house, apartment, a room in a shared flat or similar. If you are renting, you must hand in a written rental contract which is approved by the house owner, manager or housing co-operative.  

It is recomended (but not required) that the apartment number (dwelling number) is stated on the contract. This number consists of an H and four digits, for example H0101. When you are filling in the application form, we will ask you for this number.

The contract must

• document the nature of your contractual relationship
• clearly state which services you are to provide and the length of the assignment
• show that your payment is equal to the minimum for skilled workers or higher

The Norwegian client cannot be a staffing company.

You must usually document that the business abroad is your sole proprietorship. The business cannot be a limited company.

• If you have completed an education or a degree at an university college or university, or have completed a vocational training programme at upper secondary school level, you must submit a diploma and transcripts showing how long the education lasted, the level and the content.
• If you have taken education which you have not completed,  you must hand in documentation which shows how long the education lasted, the level and the content.

If you have previously handed in this documentation to the UDI, you do not have to hand it in again. 

• Work certificates: You must provide work certificates from previous employers that contain detailed information about:
• how long you worked there,
• what training you received,
• what work tasks you had and
• what qualifications you have.

Courses: If you have courses in the profession, you can attach documentation to this as a supplement to the work certificates. The documentation must contain information about the duration/number of hours and the content of the courses.

You only need to document work experience in addition to, or instead of, documentation of education if the work experience should be part of the assessment of whether or not you are a skilled worker. 

For example: Visitor's visa, residence permit in another Schengen country and /or documentation which shows when you travelled into Norway/Schengen.

If you have a residence permit in Norway, you do not have to hand in anything. 

Check here if approval or authorisation is necessary in your profession, and which recognition authority you must contact. (external website)

(https://hkdir.no/en/foreign-education/lists-and-databases/regulated-professions)

You can use this form Form for granting Power of Attorney (pdf, 677 kB) (www.udi.no/forms) or the form you received by email when you registered your application in the Application Portal.