You must hand in these documents when you apply for a residence permit (Immigration Regulations § 6-13) Checklist for seconded employee (employee of foreign company going on assignment in Norway)

• 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.
• If your client in Norway is going to apply for a residence permit on your behalf, with a written authorisation from you, it is sufficient that your client hands in a copy of your passport.

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. If you do not yet know where you are going to rent, you can instead write an explanation on a separate sheet regarding where you are planning to live and how you will organise this. 

It is recommended (but not required) that the apartment number (dwelling number) is stated on the contract if you are renting an apartement. This number consists of an H and four digits, for example H0101. You will be asked to provide this number when filling out your application.

Assignment offer form, pdf, 745 kB (pdf, 639 kB) (www.udi.no/forms)

The contract must

• document the nature of the contractual relationship
• clearly state which services you are to provide and the lenght of the assignment
• if you are employed by an international company you can, instead of a contract, hand in a statement from the company which shows that you will work at the company’s branch in Norway for a specified period of time

The Norwegian client cannot be a staffing 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.

If your client in Norway is going to apply for a residence permit on your behalf, with a written authorisation from you, it is sufficient that your client hands in a copy of the documentation of your education. You may be asked to show the original documentation at a later point in time.

and/or documentation of your professional experience

• 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.

You do not need as detailed information about this if you are going to work in the IT industry.

• Courses: If you have courses in the profession, you can attach this documentation 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. 

If your client in Norway is going to apply for a residence permit on your behalf, with a written authorisation from you, it is sufficient that your client hands in a copy of the documentation of your work experience. You may be asked to show the original documentation at a later point in time.

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)

Please write the information on a separate sheet of paper or in the UDI's assignment offer form (pdf, 877 kB)

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.

Read more about who and how to get this here. If you want an early employment start, you must request this when you hand in your application to the police.