1. Individual applications
You will find the application form here.
2. Name
Fill in your first name(s) and family name in the exact manner as presented in your passport. If you have changed your name, please confirm this by attaching certified documents.
3. Citizenship
Your stated citizenship shall be coherent with your passport. If not, please attach a statement and certified documentation.
4. Social security number/identity number/D-number
Fill in your Norwegian social security number, 11 digits. If you are not in possession of a Norwegian social security number, please state your birth date as follows dd.mm.yyyy or employ your D-number.
5. Authorisation or licence
You can apply for either an authorisation or a licence
• An authorisation entails you to practice in Norway within your field of profession
• A licence gives you right to practice within a limited time while obtaining full authorisation.
6. Profession
Please fill in your profession. You must choose one of the 27 different professions listed on the SAFH website.
7. Your main education
Please fill in your education here. The country issuing your records and diplomas is your country of education.
8. Attachments
In order to verify your professional background sufficiently, including attachments ensure that all necessary information is brought to our attention.
All attachments need to be certified copies of:
• Passport/driver’s licence/credit card (with photo)
• Diploma/records for all relevant education. (Certified copies of your grades alone do not suffice)
• Authorisation/clearance/ licence from your home country.
• For applicants from outside of the Nordic countries:
• Attach a detailed overview of your educational institutions including a presentation of the tutorial programme. Theoretical classes you have followed should be listed by the number of hours, and conducted practice by the number of weeks/hours spent within each department. Remember to mention at what time the education was initiated and at what time it was finalised.
• Attach a confirmation from your previous employers of your working experience from the time after your final exams and forward. This must include at what time you started working and eventually the ending date, as well as working area and field of experience. If you have not been employed after the finalisation of your education, you must include this information.
• Attach certified copies from the health authorities of your country of education or the last EU/EEA country where you have carried out professional practice, confirming your education, with regard to the EU Directive 2005/36/EC on general education.
• Attach a «Certificate of Current Professional Status» confirming your certified authorisation in the respective country. This declaration cannot be older than 3 months.
9. Fee
The Authorisation Authority will charge you a fee once we have received your application. You cannot pay this fee in advance. We will process your application when you have paid the fee.
10. Registry of health personnel
Professionals holding an authorisation or a licence will be registered in the Norwegian registry for health personnel.
11. Signature
Please write your signature with a blue pen.
12. Translation of documents
All original documents that are not issued in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English, need to be translated into one of these languages by an authorised translator. The translation must be attached to copies of the original documents.
13. Validation of attachments
The various attachments to the application must be certified copies. Do not send original documents.
• How to certify copies?
All copies attached to your application have to be certified page by page. By certification we mean a stamp and signature form the certifier. The certifier confirms the copy and the original documents being identical. The stamp has to clearly show the name of the certifying institution.
• Who can certify?
A notary public, Norwegian embassies and consular missions, lawyers and public offices (municipalities, county authorities state offices, NAV) are entitled to make certified copies.
14. To whom do you transmit the application?
Norwegian Registration Authority for Health Personnel
P.O. Box 8053 Dep
NO-0031 OSLO
Please do not refer to any SAFH employees on the envelope and do not employ registered mail.
06.10.2011