Norway

Documents needing an apostille (Indian authorities):

• Caveat on the whole field: UDI publishes an apostille requirement only for family immigration. The page carrying the India-specific instruction is titled 'Apostille and legalisation in family immigration cases' and opens 'When you apply for family immigration the documents which you hand in must be certified by the proper authority.' UDI's skilled-worker and self-employed-with-a-company-abroad pages do not list apostille as a step for the applicant's own file, which is why apostille_required is null rather than true. The authority and mechanics above are sourced and correct if and when an apostille is called for.
• Marriage certificate and birth certificates, if family members apply with you. These are public documents in a family immigration case, where UDI's India-specific page does require the apostille stamp: 'The original documents issued by public authorities must carry an apostille stamp.'
• Any Indian public document the personalised checklist demands. UDI generates the checklist only after the online form is completed, so the definitive list is not knowable in advance.
• Not the passport. UDI states explicitly on the India page: 'It is not necessary to have an apostille stamp on your passport.'
• Private documents (the contract with the Norwegian enterprise, client confirmations, invoices, bank statements, sole-proprietorship accounts) are not public documents and cannot be apostilled directly. In India they must first be notarised and, in most states, passed through the Home Department or an SDM before MEA will apostille them.
• Separate from apostille and easy to miss: UDI requires that when you hand in an application abroad rather than to the police in Norway, 'the copies must be stamped by the authorities in your country, or by a notarius publicus.' An Indian applicant submitting at a VFS centre therefore needs a notary trip for the copies even where the originals need nothing.