Skilled jobseekers

In order to apply for a skilled jobseeker permit the following requirements need to be met:

• Your purpose must be to seek employment as a skilled worker or specialist in Norway.
• You must be subject to a visa requirement.
• You must be a skilled worker. The term skilled worker covers the following categories: 
    o   Specialist training corresponding to upper secondary education level. You must have completed vocational training for a specific occupation. The education must as a minimum correspond to upper secondary level, i.e. at least three years. You must have achieved the same level of expertise as you would have achieved had you been educated in Norway. Examples include vocational education for plumbers or auxiliary nurses.
    o   Craft certificate. It must have resulted in the same level of expertise as a Norwegian craft certificate.
    o   University college or university education. The requirement is a completed degree or study programme, for example a Bachelor or Master’s degree.
    o   Special qualifications. You must have gained expertise through professional experience of a certain duration, alternatively in combination with courses and similar. If there is a formal education in the field, you must have achieved a corresponding level of expertise as such education leads to. A permit is only granted on the basis of special qualifications in exceptional cases.
• You are not eligible for a residence permit as a jobseeker if you wish to seek employment as a religious leader/teacher or an ethnic cook.

The content of the permit

• The residence permit allows you to seek employment as a skilled worker or specialist in Norway, but it does not entitle you to work.
• The permit can be granted for six months.
• The permit entitles you to repeated entry into Norway for the duration of the permit.
• The permit does not form the basis for a permanent residence permit.
• The permit does not form the basis for family immigration.

 Documentation list

• Cover letter you received as confirmation on your e-mail (In your inbox this confirmation e-mail can sometimes appear with the title: ”application received”) (PDF attachment) after you registered your application and booked time for submitting documents at Application Portal
• Passport photo not older than three months
• Passport and copy of used pages. Please be aware that there should be at least two free pages marked “ВІЗИ / VISAS”.
• One copy of all 16 pages of the domestic passport for Ukrainian citizens and for Moldavian national identification card applies
• Documentation of your education containing information about the duration of the education, its content and the level of the educational institution, translated into English or Norwegian.
• CV
• Documentation of work experience containing detailed information from former employers about the duration, tasks and the nature of the activities, translated into English or Norwegian.
• Documentation that you have sufficient funds for your stay. This must correspond to salary grade one in the pay scale for Norwegian state employees. This currently corresponds to NOK 103,950 for six months, which amounts to NOK 17,725 per month.
• Information about accommodation
• You must have travel or medical insurance that covers expenses incurred at a medical care facility for necessary and acute medical treatment, and for medical repatriation services related to patient transfer.

Please remember to tick of the enclosed documents in our Document list 3 and bring the list together with the documents to the Embassy. 

How to apply