diff --git a/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/index.d.ts b/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for passport-linkedin-oauth2 1.5
+// Project: https://github.com/auth0/passport-linkedin-oauth2
+// Definitions by: Andrew Vetovitz <https://github.com/andrewvetovitz>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.3
+
+import { Profile as passportProfile, AuthenticateOptions, Strategy as passportStrategy } from 'passport';
+import { Request } from 'express';
+
+export interface Profile extends passportProfile {
+    id: string;
+    displayName: string;
+    name: {
+        familyName: string;
+        givenName: string;
+    };
+    emails: [{ value: string }];
+    photos: [{ value: string }];
+    _raw: string;
+    _json: any;
+}
+
+export interface AuthenticateOptions extends AuthenticateOptions {
+    authType?: string;
+}
+
+export interface StrategyOption {
+    clientID: string;
+    clientSecret: string;
+    callbackURL: string;
+
+    scopeSeparator?: string;
+    enableProof?: boolean;
+    profileFields?: string[];
+}
+
+export interface StrategyOptionWithRequest extends StrategyOption {
+    passReqToCallback: true;
+}
+
+export type VerifyFunction =
+    (accessToken: string, refreshToken: string, profile: Profile, done: (error: any, user?: any, info?: any) => void) => void;
+
+export type VerifyFunctionWithRequest =
+    (req: Request, accessToken: string, refreshToken: string, profile: Profile, done: (error: any, user?: any, info?: any) => void) => void;
+
+export class Strategy extends passportStrategy {
+    constructor(options: StrategyOptionWithRequest, verify: VerifyFunctionWithRequest);
+    constructor(options: StrategyOption, verify: VerifyFunction);
+
+    name: string;
+    authenticate(req: Request, options?: object): void;
+}
diff --git a/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/passport-linkedin-oauth2-tests.ts b/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/passport-linkedin-oauth2-tests.ts
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+/**
+ * Created by andrewvetovitz on 12/21/2018.
+ */
+import passport = require('passport');
+import linkedin = require('passport-linkedin-oauth2');
+
+// just some test model
+const User = {
+    findOrCreate(id: string, provider: string, callback: (err: any, user: any) => void): void {
+        callback(null, { username: 'james' });
+    }
+};
+
+const callbackURL = process.env.PASSPORT_LINKEDIN_CALLBACK_URL;
+const clientID = process.env.PASSPORT_LINKEDIN_CONSUMER_KEY;
+const clientSecret = process.env.PASSPORT_LINKEDIN_CONSUMER_SECRET;
+
+if (typeof callbackURL === "undefined") {
+    throw new Error("callbackURL is undefined");
+}
+
+if (typeof clientID === "undefined") {
+    throw new Error("clientID is undefined");
+}
+
+if (typeof clientSecret === "undefined") {
+    throw new Error("clientSecret is undefined");
+}
+
+passport.use(new linkedin.Strategy(
+    {
+        callbackURL,
+        clientID,
+        clientSecret
+    },
+    (accessToken: string, refreshToken: string, profile: linkedin.Profile, done: (error: any, user?: any) => void) => {
+        User.findOrCreate(profile.id, profile.provider, (err, user) => {
+            if (err) { done(err); return; }
+            done(null, user);
+        });
+    })
+);
diff --git a/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/tsconfig.json b/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "passport-linkedin-oauth2-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/tslint.json b/types/passport-linkedin-oauth2/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }