Travel to Norway

• Changes in the travel advice for countries and areas in Europe (press release June 18 2021)
• Entry registration form
  
  

If you are among those who can travel to Norway now, you must familiarise yourself with the rules that apply by reading this page. If you have permission to enter Norway, you can then move on to entry registration.

At The National Institute of Puclic Health's webpage you will find a map of countries/areas covered by entry quarantine upon arrival in Norway. This map is updated weekly at 00:00 Monday night.

The following groups cannot enter Norway at present:

• tourists, with a few exceptions 
• foreign nationals (including Nordic nationals) who are going to work or study in Norway, and who are not included among the exemptions below
• people who have a residence permit to work or study in Norway who do not already reside in Norway
• business travellers
• foreign nationals holding a Schengen visa but who are not included among the exemptions below
• people who own recreational property in Norway but are not residents of Norway

The following groups can enter Norway now:

• foreign nationals who reside in Norway
• foreign nationals who reside in a country/area in the EEA/Schengen area that is not covered by a duty to quarantine in accordance with section 4 subsection 1 (a) of the COVID-19 Regulations, see Appendix A to the Regulations . 
• foreign nationals who have a family immigration permit
• foreign nationals who are visiting or will be staying with close family members in Norway
• foreign nationals who are arriving for a contact visit with their children
• foreign nationals for whom there are special reasons for granting entry, such as special care responsibilities for people in Norway or other compelling compassionate grounds
• asylum seekers and resettlement refugees
• people belonging to certain professions: journalists, maritime and aeronautical personnel, freight and passenger traffic, diplomats and military personnel, Sami people engaged in reindeer husbandry, researchers and crew on a marine research cruise
• foreign nationals invited by the Norwegian authorities and employees of international organisations.
• foreign nationals in transit at an airport in Norway (both international airport transit and within the Schengen area)
• foreign nationals working in critical societal functions
• health workers from Sweden and Finland working in Norwegian health and care service
• foreign nationals with permanent residence on Svalbard or who need to travel via the Norwegian mainland on their way to or from their work or place of residence on Svalbard
• foreign nationals who reside in the EEA with close relations to a person who resides in Norway (see here)
• Certain foreign athletes and their support personnel (see here)

If you are among those who can travel to Norway, you must familiarise yourself with the requirements that apply by reading below:

Mandatory testing, entry registration, a duty to quarantine and, in certain cases, a duty to stay at a quarantine hotel still apply for people who are allowed to enter Norway, but there are exemptions for certain groups.

• Entry registration
• Duty to be tested
• Quarantine and isolation (fhi.no)
• COVID-19:Information regarding quarantine hotels

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all non-essential travel to all countries. The travel advice is valid until 10 August 2021. Exemptions have been made for countries and areas in the Nordic region and countries in the EEA/Schengen area that meet the Norwegian Institute of Public Health's criteria for sufficiently low transmission.

• You can read more about international travel here

Entry registration

People arriving in Norway from countries/areas that are subject to a duty to quarantine must register before crossing the border. This also applies to Norwegian citizens, but not to people who are fully vaccinated and people who have recovered from COVID-19 during the past 6 months. Travellers must complete their registration prior to their arrival in Norway and may only register their journey in the 72 hours before their time of arrival.

• Digital entry registration

Once you have completed the registration, you will receive a receipt which you must present to the police at border control. 

Travellers are only asked to provide necessary information. The data is stored securely and will be deleted after 20 days. Only the Norwegian authorities have access to the data.

If you have any questions or need help with registration, please call +47 33 41 28 70.

Zarejestruj telefonicznie +47 33 41 28 70
Inregistrat de telefon +47 33 41 28 70
регистрируйтесь по телефону +47 33 41 28 70
Registruokitės telefonu +47 33 41 28 70

Travel quarantine

All arriving travellers to Norway must quarantine at a suitable location or quarantine hotel. There is an exemption from travel quarantine for people who have only visited areas/countries with a low rate of infection in the EEA/Schengen area and the UK (‘green’ areas/countries, i.e. countries with fewer than 25 cases per 100 000 inhabitants during the past 2 weeks and fewer than 4% positive tests) and for people who are fully vaccinated and people who have recovered from COVID-19 during the past 6 months.

Travellers who have visited an area in the EEA/Schengen/UK during the 10 days prior to arrival in Norway with fewer than 500 cases per 100 000 inhabitants during the past 2 weeks (‘dark red’), and who have a suitable place of quarantine, are exempt from the duty to stay at a quarantine hotel.

Travellers who have visited countries outside the EEA/Schengen/UK must stay at a quarantine hotel until they have a negative result from a PCR test taken no sooner than 3 days after arrival. The same applies to people who have visited the EEA/Schengen/UK if the rate of infection in the country changes to dark red.

Protected people who have received their first dose within the past 3–15 weeks and children under the age of 18 must complete travel quarantine. They may leave quarantine if they present a negative result from a PCR test taken no sooner than 3 days after arrival.

Presentation of a Norwegian COVID-19 certificate by logging on to helsenorge.no is considered a secure and verifiable way of documenting a person's protected status. Entry of COVID-19 vaccination abroad in the Norwegian Immunisation Registry SYSVAK has been permitted since 16 June. 

Once Norway has connected to the EU’s gateway on 24 June, travellers from Norway to countries in the EU/EEA will be able to use their COVID-19 certificate.

On 5 July, when Norway changes the threshold values, a ‘green’ country will be one with fewer than 50 cases per 100 000 inhabitants and fewer than 1% positive tests.

• Map of red and green areas/countries (Norwegian Institute of Public Health)
• Entry quarantine and rules upon arrival in Norway – Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• Information regarding quarantine hotels

Quarantine hotel

In order to limit imported cases of COVID-19, there are rules that establish a duty to stay at a quarantine hotel. From 19 June, travellers from the EEA/Schengen/UK no longer need to stay at one, while travellers from other countries may leave the quarantine hotel if they present a negative result from a test taken no sooner than 3 days after arrival. Children do not need to stay at a quarantine hotel.

People who must stay at a quarantine hotel must do so at the place of arrival in Norway. The stay at the quarantine hotel cannot exceed the length of the travel quarantine.

• Visit the website of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to see which areas/countries in the EEA/Schengen area require a stay at a quarantine hotel and which ones require quarantining at home.

Protected people do not have to stay at a quarantine hotel

Travellers do not have to stay at a quarantine hotel if they can provide documentation at the border that they are vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 during the past 6 months. Children do not have to stay at a quarantine hotel if they are travelling with protected people. Presentation of a Norwegian COVID-19 certificate by logging on to helsenorge.no is considered a secure and verifiable way of documenting a person's protected status. Entry of COVID-19 vaccination abroad in the Norwegian Immunisation Registry SYSVAK has been permitted since 16 June. Printouts and screenshots are not accepted.

Exemption scheme

A very narrow exemption scheme has been introduced which allows people who are able to document compelling compassionate grounds to apply for an exemption from the requirement to stay at a quarantine hotel upon arrival in Norway. Very few people are granted an exemption under this scheme. The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration processes these applications and can answer questions regarding the scheme. Application page. 

• More people may quarantine in their own home (press release 4 June 2021)
• Visit the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s web pages for information about the COVID-19 situation in Europe.
• COVID-19:Information regarding quarantine hotels

Workers who are permitted to enter Norway must comply with very strict quarantine rules. As a rule, this group must stay at a quarantine hotel. See further information in the section above. 

Workers and quarantine rules

Workers who are permitted to enter Norway must comply with very strict quarantine rules. As a rule, this group must stay at a quarantine hotel.

Exemptions apply where employers have made accommodation available at a location that has received prior approval by the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. Documentation of the approval must be presented upon arrival.

• The application form is available at arbeidstilsynet.no
• More information for employers and employees at arbeidstilsynet.no

Duty to be tested

If you have visited a country or area within the last 14 days that triggers a duty to quarantine, you must be tested for COVID-19 upon arrival in Norway. This also applies to Norwegian citizens and, from 19 April, children under the age of 12. 

People who refuse to be tested without reasonable grounds have the option to leave the country voluntarily or be fined.

In addition, travellers must present a negative result from a SARS-CoV-2 test upon arrival. It must have been taken less than 24 hours before arrival in Norway. This also applies to Norwegian citizens and foreign nationals who reside in Norway. For people arriving by plane, the test may have been taken during the last 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the first part of their flight. People who are fully vaccinated and people who have recovered from COVID-19 during the past 6 months do not need to produce a negative test taken before arrival or take a test at the border.

The requirement of proof of a negative test result does not apply if it has been impossible or disproportionately difficult to obtain such a proof.

People who are in transit from the mainland to Svalbard no longer need to present a negative result from a SARS-CoV-2 test before departure if they can provide documentation of their protected status and can present a COVID-19 certificate. 

• More information concerning the duty to be tested (helsenorge.no)
• Changes to infection control measures for travel operations in Svalbard and for cruises along the Norwegian coast

List of open border crossings

• Map showing open border crossings with and without test centres (Norwegian Directorate of Health)

Border control of pleasure boats arriving in Norway from abroad

This summer, pleasure boats that arrive in Norway from abroad will be subject to ordinary border control with the same testing and quarantine rules that apply to travellers arriving by car or plane.

Temporary restrictions are being introduced to the harbours that can be used this summer when arriving from abroad in a pleasure boat.

The following harbours are specified as legal border crossing points for travellers arriving in a pleasure boat:

• Hammerfest
• Tromsø
• Bodø
• Trondheim
• Ålesund
• Bergen
• Stavanger
• Kristiansand
• Sandefjord
• Port of Oslo
• Halden/Sponvika

The changes will enter into effect on Sunday 21 June at 12 pm, and apply until 30 September 2021.

• Border control of pleasure boats arriving in Norway from abroad (press release 18 June 2021)

Information helpline for entry, testing and quarantine:

• From Norway: 815 55 015
• From abroad: +47 21 89 80 42