This card was abandoned after the end of the war, as it was strongly associated with the occupation force and its control regime.

Norway Post started issuing a photo identity card on 1 March 1957, initially free for all residents over 15 years old.

These were intended for use at the post offices, but were quickly adopted by other public and private instances as a valid photo ID.

The other was that the banks did not have the same ability to authenticate people with confidence as government authorities, increasing the risk of fake IDs being issued.

Postal ID cards were phased out, banks were wanting to rid themselves of their obligation, passports could only be issued to Norwegian citizens and driver's licenses were restricted to those with the right to drive motor vehicles.

Non-Norwegian citizens could not be issued passports, and without a government-issued ID card which showed their national identity number, they were unable to open a bank account.

This further hindered them from getting jobs, as Norwegian anti-money laundering laws require wages to be paid to a bank account.

NorSIS stated that this was problematic because the government had no way of directly issuing eID with sufficiently high security levels.

[12] NorSIS was also concerned that the quality of authentication issued by banks was inferior to that carried out by the police, which could lead to more fake IDs.

[16] Norway decided in 2007 to introduce a voluntary national identity card, to be usable for travel to EEA countries.

[23][24] On 1 February 2024, through incorporation into the EEA agreement, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein became bound by the Regulation with some amendments, including the lack of a requirement of an EU flag.

For example airlines has occasionally (due to a lack of staff training) not accepted it for flights from Norway to other Schengen countries.

[31] Moreover, by virtue of Norway's membership of the European Economic Area, Norwegian citizens also have freedom of movement to live and work across all EEA member states.

[32] As an alternative to presenting a passport, Norwegian citizens are entitled to use a valid national identity card to exercise their right of free movement in EFTA[5] and the European Economic Area.

[33][34][35][36][37] Furthermore, the card can be used as a travel document to European Microstates, Balkan countries, French Overseas Territories and Montserrat (for max.

In the top left, the name Norway is written in the two forms of Norwegian; Bokmål and Nynorsk and Northern Sami "NORGE NOREG NORGA" and below that, in smaller letters in English "NORWAY", and in the top right part of the card the words "ID-KORT ID-DUOĐAŠTUS" is placed above the English word "IDENTITY CARD" (in smaller letters).