Questions and answers

The Immigration Service makes initial decisions about applications for residence permits. If your application was refused, you can appeal the decision to the Immigration Appeals Board.

The letter you received from the Immigration Service with the decision contains information about how to appeal.

Read more about appeals

If you receive a final refusal and you cannot remain in Denmark on other grounds, you will be given a date by which you need to leave Denmark. If you remain in Denmark after this date, you will be here illegally.

If you do not leave Denmark in accordance with your departure date, you risk being expelled and given an entry ban. If you are expelled from Denmark, you are banned from entering Denmark or any other EU or Schengen country for two years. If you are expelled from Denmark, you can be forcibly deported by the police.

If your application has been refused, you can apply for the Immigration Service to reopen your case. You can do this, if you believe that there was information at the time of the Immigration Service’s ruling, which might have resulted in a different outcome, had they been present when the Immigration Service was making the original decision.  

Read more about reopening of cases