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To reduce the risk of importing the virus, the government has introduced further entry restrictions for foreigners traveling to Norway.
In principle, only foreigners registered in the country will be able to enter the country. This also applies to EEA nationals.
Mandatory tests, registration of arrival, quarantine and quarantine hotel will continue to apply to the few who are allowed to enter Norway (to whom entry restrictions do not apply). Read the applicable regulations by reading the text below. Then you can go to registration of arrival.
The following groups are no longer allowed to enter the country:
- Foreigners residing in the EEA and EEA nationals residing in third countries (unless an exception applies to them, which also applies to third-country nationals)
- Family members who are not immediate family, both EEA and non-EEA. This means: grandparents, adult children, parents of adult children and partners are no longer allowed to visit.
- Foreigners from outside the EEA who are granted a residence permit in connection with work or study, including seasonal and student work.
- Foreigners who are to work in film or television production or research, who are exempt from the residence permit requirement.
. Exceptions are still made for some groups.
Including the following groups are allowed entry:
- Foreigners settled in Norway
- If special circumstances require a foreigner to have the right to enter, e.g. special care obligations towards people in Norway or other important social considerations.
- Foreigners who come to Norway for agreed contacts with children
- Close family members of people who are resident in Norway, i.e. their spouses / registered partners / cohabitants / minor children or foster children, parents or foster parents of minor or foster children
- Journalists or other staff commissioned by a foreign media institution
- Foreigners who have a stopover at an airport in Norway (both international transit and within the Schengen area)
- Seafarers and flight personnel
- Foreigners carrying out the transport of goods and people
- Foreigners whose work is of vital importance to society
- Healthcare workers from Sweden and Finland who work in the Norwegian health and healthcare system
- Children and pupils who commute from Sweden or Finland to kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and people who are to provide the necessary transport between home and kindergarten or school
- With effect from February 20, 2021, exceptions may be made to the entry restrictions for business travelers who have been approved for entry in accordance with an application system developed by the NFD. It is a fairly narrow application system, thanks to which the business can hire only the necessary personnel of critical importance to the business.
- From Monday 1 March inclusive, daily commuters from Sweden and Finland were able to return to work in Norway again under the strict testing and inspection regime. Read more.
- Daily commuters must cross the border at the open border crossing point during its opening hours.
View map with a list of open border crossing points with and without testing stations (Helsedirektoratet - Health Authority)
As a starting point for what are considered critical social roles, reference can be made to the following list:
List of Critical Social Roles (updated February 17, 2021)
- Leadership and crisis management
- Armed forces
- Law and order
- Health and healthcare, including pharmacies and cleaning
- Emergency services
- Cybersecurity in the civil sector
- Nature and the environment
- Security of energy supply
- Water and sewage
- Financial services
- Energy supply
- Electronic communication
- Transport
- Satellite services
- For the record, it is stressed that all Norwegian citizens can still enter Norway.
- These changes are a consequence of the current epidemiological situation with outbreaks of the mutated version of the virus. These are to be temporary restrictions to gain control over the epidemiological situation.
. Arrival registration
To ensure better infection control, all travelers from the "red countries" must register before crossing the border. This also applies to Norwegian citizens. Travelers must register before arrival in Norway, and the journey can be registered no earlier than 72 hours before the time of arrival.
You need to register online. After completing the registration, you will receive a confirmation to be presented to the police at the border control.
Travelers are asked to register only the information necessary for these purposes. The data is securely stored and deleted after 20 days. Only the authorities have access to this data.
If you have questions or need help with registration, you can call +47 33 41 28 70.
Register by phone +47 33 41 28 70
Quarantine
All travelers must undergo a ten-day quarantine. It is possible to reduce the quarantine to 7 days in case a traveler has two negative COVID-19 test results upon arrival.
Quarantine hotel
As a rule, the entry quarantine is to take place in a quarantine hotel in the place where you are arriving in Norway. Employees and contractors who come to Norway and who can prove that the employer or client provides a suitable place of residence are exempt from the obligation to stay in a quarantine hotel. Employer or principal must obtain residence approval prior to entry into the country. See more information in the next section.
- Press release from March 12.03.2021, XNUMX: More people for hotel quarantine and extension of entry restrictions
- Information about the hotel quarantine
- Revised Quarantine Circular w hotelu
A quarantine facility for employees must be approved in advance
Workers who are allowed to enter Norway have to comply even more with very strict quarantine laws. The main rule is that this group is to be quarantined in a hotel.
Exceptions are employees and contractors who come to Norway, for whom the employer or client provides a suitable place of residence, which has been approved by the Norwegian State Labor Inspectorate (Arbeidstilsynet) prior to arrival. Documentation of such approval must be submitted upon entry into the country.
Application form at arbeidstilsynet.no
. Obligation to test
Compulsory tests were introduced at the border. If you have been in a country or area with compulsory quarantine in the last 14 days, you must undergo a coronavirus test upon arrival in Norway. This also applies to Norwegian citizens.
All persons who have been in the UK, South Africa, Ireland, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Brazil at the border crossing point will be subjected to PCR testing (not a rapid test).
Foreigners who fail to register before arrival or fail to test themselves at the border may be refused entry into Norway.
Foreign travelers must additionally prove a negative SARS-CoV-2 test result. The test is to be done within 24 hours prior to arrival in Norway. For those arriving in Norway, the test can be done up to 24 hours before the scheduled departure time of the first leg of the flight. This can be a direct flight to Norway or a flight with stopovers at other airports.
Open List border crossings
Certain groups are exempt from these rules, such as staff in critical social roles and children under the age of 12.
Hotline for Arrival, Testing and Quarantine:
- In Norway: 815 55 015
- From abroad: +47 21 93 78 40
