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Once you have registered as a job seeker, you can apply for unemployment benefits.
For help, call NAV at 55 55 33 33 if you live in Norway or +47 21 07 37 00 if you live abroad.
Once you have registered as a job seeker, you can apply for unemployment benefits.
For help, call NAV at 55 55 33 33 if you live in Norway or +47 21 07 37 00 if you live abroad.
If you have become wholly unemployed and live in Norway, you should apply for unemployment benefits (dagpenger) in Norway.
You are defined as frontier worker if you have returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) at least once a week.
If you have become wholly unemployed from your work in Norway, you must apply for unemployment benefits (dagpenger) in the other EEA country where you resided during your last employment.
You are not defined as frontier worker if you have worked in Norway and returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) less often than once a week.
If you have become wholly unemployed from your work in Norway, you can choose to apply for unemployment benefits in Norway, or choose to return to your country of residence and apply for unemployment benefits in that country.
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If you have become temporarily laid off (permittert) or partially unemployed and live in Norway, you should apply for unemployment benefits (dagpenger) in Norway.
You are defined as a frontier worker if you have returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) at least once a week.
If you have become temporarily laid off (permittert) or partially unemployed from your work in Norway, you can receive unemployment benefits from Norway and stay in your country of residence.
You have worked in Norway and returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) less than once a week.
If you have become temporarily laid off (permittert) or partially unemployed from your work in Norway, you can receive unemployment benefits from Norway.
The main rule is that you must stay in Norway to qualify for unemployment benefits from Norway.
Exception from the requirement to stay in Norway applies if you are a non-frontier worker.
Please note that you will receive unemployment benefits at the earliest from the day you registered as a job seeker and applied for unemployment benefit.
You must stay in close contact with your employer when you have been temporarily laid off (permittert) and notify NAV of any changes in your situation.
It is possible to apply for unemployment benefits even if you do not have electronic ID.
You can order Buypass from abroad With Buypass it is possible to sign in to our digital services.
NAV will make an assessment of what your country of residence is based on where you are employed, where you have housing, where you spend your free time and the like.
You may be entitled to retain unemployment benefits from Norway for up to 3 months when traveling to another EEA country to apply for a job. You must submit a separate application to NAV before traveling.
Read more about work in another EEA country (Norwegian information).
Maybe the norwegian information can be of some help.
Arbeidsledig (Unemployed)
Permittert (Laid-off)
For deg som har søkt dagpenger (You have applied for unemployment benefits)
Student (Student)
Employment status form - how do you use it?
Trenger hjelp til å komme i jobb (Need help to get back to work)