
Free health checks and vaccinations for newcomers in Norway
Newly arrived refugees, asylum seekers and family-reunited persons have the right to free health checks, tuberculosis testing and vaccinations. Here's how to use the offer.
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Newly arrived refugees, asylum seekers and family-reunited persons have the right to free health checks, tuberculosis testing and vaccinations. Here's how to use the offer.

Have you lost your diplomas? Here's how refugees can have foreign education assessed in Norway without complete documents – free at HK-dir.

Municipalities are to resettle 13,000 refugees in 2026, and as of 8 July, 5,407 were resettled. Here's how municipality allocation, waiting times, rights and self-settlement work.

New NIBR research: only 9% of Ukrainian refugees in the Nordics want to go home as soon as the war ends. Trust in the authorities and the children's future decide it.

In 2025, four in ten refugees went straight into work after the introduction programme. We compare with earlier years and explain what lies behind the rise.

A network of 42 municipalities gave refugees a 3 – and up to 6 – percentage point higher chance of work, a NIBR evaluation commissioned by KS shows.