About the service

The service shall enable public and private sector actors to carry out appropriate identity checks.

The service is intended to support consistent identity management and help ensure that each person has one single identity in Norway. The status service is a digital service that lets users check whether passports or national ID cards issued by Norwegian authorities have been registered as lost or stolen.

Note that the response from this service does not make an adequate ID control. Results of queries may be misleading for multiple reasons: a passport or a national ID card may in fact be stolen or lost without being registered as such with the Police, it may be forged, or may be used by an imposter.

Similar services for foreign passports or national ID cards can be found here: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/check-document-numbers/check-document-numbers.pdf

How to use the service

The service lets users check whether Norwegian passports or national ID cards have been registered lost or stolen, by entering the document number.

The service may be used through either manual queries or integration with your IT system.

If you are currently using a commercial identity service supplier, you can ask your supplier to integrate the service into their system, provided you have a passport reader/NFC reader for reading the MRZ or chip.

Please read the Terms of use for the Status service. (252 kB pdf)

API documentation for integration of Status service into your IT system.

Check passport and national ID card status.

Technical support

In case of technical problems, please email us at id@politiet.no. Please take care to protect personal data when contacting us.

Please do not send sensitive data or confidential information by email. Such information must be given over the phone, in physical meetings or logged-in services.

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