Some families just bring their clothing and personal items. Some rent furnished apartments which in Norway may even be supplied with dinnerware, utensils, towels and bed linens. Hardly anyone brings furniture with them.

Make sure to bring important paperwork. For example: passports, visas, driver’s license, marriage/divorce certificates, and birth certificates, academic diplomas, work/professional records, bank records, medical records (Schengen certificate if applicable), vaccination records (preferably standard WHO records), children’s educational records, child benefits claim records, tax records, info about investment properties and assets, insurance paperwork, no-claim certificate from car insurance company, import and proof of purchase documentation (for cars, plants, foods, animals), and work offer and contract from your employer.

Here is some more information about what to bring and what not to bring:

• https://relocation.no/expat-communities/relocation-to-norway/what-to-bring/

• https://relocation.no/expat-communities/relocation-to-norway/what-not-to-bring/

ELECTRICAL ITEMS

It may not be useful to bring electrical equipment from home depending on where you are moving from. Norway uses 220-240 V AC with 50 Hertz cycles. Adapters must be of the two-pin, round-ended European type. More information can be found here: https://relocation.no/expat-communities/relocation-to-norway/electricity-in-norway/