Now that I have Norwegian passport, I'm indeed in the police database; when I applied for a new passport I only had to deliver the old one. But with important s

Now that I have Norwegian passport, I'm indeed in the police database; when I applied for a new passport I only had to deliver the old one. But with important stuff like this, I don't fully trust IT systems. Extreme solar flare, sabotage, security breach, … there's a number of (unlikely, but possible) reasons why IT records might fail. In a fireproof safe, paper is still the best archival method. And then, administrative f*ups are not without precedent as exemplified here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Erased https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Erased IIRC the cover letter I got with "statsborgerbrevet", it is non-reissuable. It is handed out only to you in person, you can't even send your lawyer. In the unlikely case I'd need a new birth certificate, I'd, I'd have to travel to my country of birth. Hassle. Call me old-fashioned, but paper is still the best archival/backup medium for stuff of real importance.