Here you can see the process for registering your child in the National Population Register and how you can give him or her a name.

Birth certificates contain information about a person's name, date of birth, personal ID number, gender, place of birth and possibly the names of the person's parents. As regards newborn babies, the Tax Administration will automatically send the birth certificate to the parents after the child's name has been registered.

Here you can order information from the National Population Register, like certificates, extracts and printouts. The National Population Register is a part of the Norwegian Tax Administration.

The Service Centre for Foreign Workers (SUA) is a centre where the Labour Inspection Authority (Arbeidstilsynet), the Police (politiet), the Tax Administration (skatteetaten) and the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) work together towards foreigners arriving to Norway for employment purposes, with the aim of providing them appropriate guidance and a shortening of the time used for processing their applications. You will find information in Norwegian, English, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian.  

You can add or change a postal address if you want post from the public sector to be sent there instead of your address registered with the National Population Register. This also applies even if you live abroad. 

If you intend to move within Norway, you must send a change of address notification to the National Population Register (folkeregisteret) no later than eight days after you have moved. The National Population Register is managed by the Norwegian Tax Administration.

This information is for you who have created a MinID account at the tax office, and have registered by mobile phone. The advantages for you as an employee is among others that you can order your tax deduction card and receive your tax return online.  

Here you can report relocation to both Posten and the National Population Register (folkeregisteret). To ensure that you receive letters and parcels when you change your address, you must report the move  to Posten. You can also consent to the change of address being sent to the National Population Register.