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The plan for Norway, from the inside
These are all 32 steps of the Norway journey, exactly as they appear in your personal plan — with the lead time and the costs next to them. Not a brochure: this is the file that feeds the platform. Pick another country below if you're heading elsewhere.
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- Steps
- 32
- Phases
- 5
- Official sources
- 64
- Only for your situation
- 8
Phase 1
5 steps
Orientation
Norway is EEA, so you may live and work there as if it were EU — but it stands outside the customs union, and that makes this the only corridor where the border itself is a sum. Whoever works out the border sum and the housing market in advance arrives without surprises.
- 1.1
Understand the system: EEA rights, and two registrations
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 1.2
Do the border sum: what may come along, and what the border costs
- Lead time
- an evening of calculating
- Costs
- none
3 official sources
- 1.3
Get a picture of what it's going to cost
- Lead time
- 1-2 hours with the calculator
- Costs
- none
- 1.4
Take the decision together
- Lead time
- no fixed time; take your time for it
- Costs
- none
- 1.6
Choose your target date
- Lead time
- five minutes, below
- Costs
- none
Phase 2
11 steps
Closing the Netherlands
Norway is EEA, so the familiar EU routes simply work — CAK, protective assessment, AOW. Two things are different here: the apostille is back (the EU public documents regulation doesn't apply), and since 2013 the treaty has source-state taxation with transitional rules that older guides mix up.
- 2.1
Arrange your healthcare: the basic insurance stops on departure
- Lead time
- start 3 months before departure; the CAK application takes ± 4 weeks
- Costs
- workers none; pensioners the CAK contribution
4 official sources
- 2.2
AOW and pension: source-state taxation since 2013
- Lead time
- an afternoon of research; in case of doubt one conversation with a tax adviser
- Costs
- possibly the tax adviser's conversation
3 official sources
- 2.3
The tax wrap-up: M return and the protective assessment
- Lead time
- the return comes after the emigration year; preparing can be done now
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.4
Stop allowances and child benefit
- Lead time
- an hour, online
- Costs
- none
3 official sources
- 2.5
Deregister with the municipality
- Lead time
- possible from 5 days before departure, up to and including departure day
- Costs
- none
1 official source
- 2.6
DigiD, bank and your vote: keep the lines with the Netherlands
- Lead time
- an afternoon
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.7
Documents: the apostille is back
- Lead time
- 2-3 weeks for extracts and apostilles
- Costs
- fees per extract plus apostille per document
2 official sources
- 2.8
Partner comes along without a job of their own
- Lead time
- an evening together, then a few things to arrange
- Costs
- none — the consequences are in the article
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.9
Living partly in the Netherlands: the eight-month rule
- Lead time
- one decision, before you commit to anything else
- Costs
- none
4 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.10
The house in the Netherlands: sell, rent out or keep
- Lead time
- one conversation with the mortgage lender and one with a tax adviser
- Costs
- advisory hours; when renting out possibly an interest surcharge from the bank
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.11
Children staying in the Netherlands: DUO, healthcare and the house
- Lead time
- an evening, and after that one report a year
- Costs
- none
1 official source
Only if this applies to you
Phase 3
3 steps
Move
The border is real, but well arranged: removal goods pass free with a declaration and an inventory list, via the red zone. The three exceptions you know from phase 1 — alcohol, the car and the pet each have their own rules.
- 3.1
Plan the move: the declaration, the list and the red zone
- Lead time
- quotes 2-4 weeks ahead; the papers an evening
- Costs
- see the cost indication
2 official sources
- 3.2
The car: carrying out the sum, with two clocks
- Lead time
- RDW export and applying for the refund, 1-2 weeks
- Costs
- see the border sum of step 1.2
3 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 3.3
The pet: the tapeworm treatment with a time window
- Lead time
- vet visit 24-120 hours before arrival — plan it exactly
- Costs
- vet check plus the treatment
3 official sources
Only if this applies to you
Phase 4
6 steps
Registration in Norway
Two registrations, two speeds: the police are done while you stand there, Skatteetaten can take up to twenty-five weeks. Everything that asks for a fødselsnummer — GP, bank, BankID — waits for the slow one of the two, so report in the first week and use the bridges.
- 4.1
Find your home: small rental supply, strict depositum
- Lead time
- count on weeks; the supply is small
- Costs
- depositum by law up to 6 months' rent
2 official sources
- 4.2
The EEA registration with the police
- Lead time
- schedule an appointment; you get the proof straight away
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 4.3
The folkeregistrering: eight days to report, weeks for an answer
- Lead time
- report within 8 days; decision 2 to 25 weeks
- Costs
- none
3 official sources
- 4.4
The tax card: choose deliberately between PAYE and ordinary
- Lead time
- arrange at the same ID check; avoid the 50%
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 4.5
ID-kort, bank and BankID: the chain with bridges
- Lead time
- 2-4 weeks once the fødselsnummer is there
- Costs
- ID-kort 840 kroner
2 official sources
- 4.6
GP and healthcare: the fastlege and the S1
- Lead time
- choosing is possible straight after the folkeregistrering
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
Phase 5
7 steps
Arrival
The systems here are generous and cut differently: no a-kasse to choose (the unemployment insurance sits in the folketrygd), healthcare with co-payments up to a hard ceiling, and childcare that just got considerably cheaper. The car has the shortest clock: thirty days.
- 5.1
Registering the car as Norwegian: thirty days
- Lead time
- declaration, inspection and plates, 2-3 weeks
- Costs
- engangsavgift and VAT from the border sum, plus vrakpant
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 5.2
Work: no a-kasse — but know your rights and your collective agreement
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 5.3
Healthcare costs: co-payments up to the ceiling
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- see the text
2 official sources
- 5.4
Children: apply for barnetrygd, register for childcare
- Lead time
- apply as soon as the registration is complete
- Costs
- childcare at most 1,200 kroner a month
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 5.5
Tax: evaluate your PAYE choice, and know the return
- Lead time
- an evening a year
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 5.6
Learn Norwegian: it isn't free here — budget for it
- Lead time
- choosing a course can be done straight away; learning takes years
- Costs
- course fees, at your own expense
1 official source
- 5.7
Your driving licence: nothing is required, exchanging is allowed
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- exchanging about 260-370 kroner including photo
1 official source
8 of these steps aren't always there. They appear only when your answers call them up — a pet, a car, children staying behind. That's the difference between a plan and a checklist in which you have to work out yourself what applies.
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This is what one step of your plan looks like
Not a brochure but the real thing: this is one of the steps of the Norway journey, exactly as it appears in your personal step-by-step plan — with the deadlines, the counters and the sources.
Step 1.2 of your plan
Do the border sum: what may come along, and what the border costs
- Lead time
- an evening of calculating
- Costs
- none
Norway stands outside the EU customs union, and that makes your move different from a move to any EU country on this site. The main rule is favourable: your household contents pass tax-free as removal goods, provided you lived in the Netherlands for at least a year and owned and used the things — with a declaration and an inventory list, via the red zone.
Three things fall outside it, and they form the sum. Alcohol is never removal goods: above the traveller's quota you pay per litre, up to a maximum of 27 litres via the simplified route — a wine collection does move, but never free. The car carries the engangsavgift (weight plus CO₂) plus 25% VAT, softened by the age deduction and the Dutch BPM refund — work it through with the official calculator before you decide. And new things aren't removal goods; keep receipts of what you bought just before departure.
This is step 1.2 of 32. The other 31 are ready for you — each with the same sources, the same counters and a planning that watches your dates.
And what you don't see here
This page shows the content. What a page can't show is the work the platform does for you afterwards:
- The clocks that start running the moment you begin, and a nudge at the moment something is asked of you — not earlier.
- Your documents in one place, with their expiry dates watched, so nothing lapses while you wait for something else.
- The ticking off, together with your partner on the same journey.
- The steps that drop out or appear based on your answers, so your plan holds only what really applies to you.
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