You must hand in these documents when you apply for a residence permit (Immigration Regulations § 6-1 (2)) Checklist for religious leader/teacher

• 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.

UDI Offer of employment form (pdf, 1,0 MB) (www.udi.no/forms)  

• 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 you do not have a master's degree in your religion or in pedagogics, you must hand in an explanation of the religion/ denomination’s own, non-secular, system of education for its leaders and/or teachers, if this exists.

Your employer in Norway must explain as clearly as possible what education and/or experience someone must have in order to be a leader and/or teacher in this religion/ denomination’s. Please attach documentation which shows that you have this education/experience

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. 

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.