Permit - Au Pair

If you are not already in Denmark when you receive your permit, you might need a visa to enter Denmark.

If you need a visa to enter Denmark

With your permit you have received a visa to enter Denmark. The representation where you applied for a residence permit will inform you of our decision and hand you the letter granting you a permit along with a visa allowing you to enter Denmark.

Your entry visa is a sticker, which the representation will put in your passport.

If you do not need a visa to enter Denmark

The representation where you applied for a residence permit will inform you of our decision and hand you the letter granting you a permit. Since you do not need a visa you can travel to Denmark freely.

Read more about visas and who needs a visa here.

If you are a Phillippine citizen

If you are a Phillippine citizen you must have an exit permit from the Philippine authorities to be able to travel to Denmark – a so-called “Red Ribbon”.

It is the Philippine authorities who decide whether you can be granted an exit permit. If granted, the exit permit wil be handed over to you together with your residence permit.

If you do not get an exit permit you cannot file a complaint on that to the Danish Embassy or to SIRI

As soon as possible after your arrival your Danish host family has to take out 3 insurances covering you:

• insurance against work-related injuries
• insurance covering leisure time and accidents
• insurance covering transportation to your home country in the case of your death, serious illness or injury

When you have received your CPR-number you have to create a Danish bank account to which your host family can pay your pocket money.

When you have been granted a residence permit, you will also receive a residence card as proof of your permit. The residence card contains the biometric data which have been recorded.

Read more about residence cards here

After your entry into Denmark, you must, no later than 5 days after you have moved into your residence at your host family in Denmark, ask to be registered in the CPR registry as having entered and taken up residence in Denmark. You must appear in person bringing your residence permit and your passport. In some cases the local municipality will demand that your host family gives a written declaration of your residence with them.

Your residence card will then be sent to the address which has been registered in the CPR registry.

You can read more about registering with the CPR registry here.

If you have not had your biometric data recorded

If you have not had your biometric data recorded, e.g. since you applied at a Norwegian representation with which Denmark has an agreement, you must have your biometric data recorded no later than 14 days after having entered Denmark.

You can read more about biometrics and how to have your biometrics recorded here.

You can have your biometric data recorded in one of SIRI's branch offices.

If you choose to have your biometric data recorded in one of SIRI's branch offices, you must remember to book an appointment here.

You will receive your residence card in the mail 2-3 weeks after you have had your biometric data recorded and have registered an address in the CPR registry.

You must make sure to have your name on the mail box or your residence card will be returned to SIRI.

A permit as an Au Pair does not give you the right to undertake paid work, neither at the host family or outside the family.

You can, however, undertake voluntary unpaid work in an organisation or association.

You can here read more about voluntary unpaid work.

A permit grants you the right to stay in the Schengen area for up to 90 days within a 180 days period. The permit does not grant you the right to work in other Schengen countries.

You can leave Denmark for up to 6 months without losing your permit, if you keep your address in Denmark.

If you give up your address in Denmark and leave, your residence permit will lapse.

Your permit will also lapse, if you reside outside of Denmark for more than 6 months.

Read more about how your permit can lapse here

The link above also gives you information about what you should do, if you are going to reside outside of Denmark for more than 6 months or if your permit already has lapsed.

If you need to travel out of Denmark before you have received your residence card, you must apply for a re-entry permit in order to be able to return to Denmark.

You can read more about re-entry permits here.

You do not need a re-entry permit, if you are from a visa free country or if you have a visa, which is valid until the day you return to Denmark, e.g if you received a visa with your permit.

SIRI can revoke your permit if you do not meet the conditions for the permit. This is the case, for example, if

• your host family has not made the necessary insurances,

• you undertake domestic duties at a larger extent than allowed or outside the home of the host family, or

• the Au Pair contract has not been respected (e.g. you get less than the minimun amount of pocket money)

 SIRI can also revoke your permit if you no longer live with your host family, e.g. because you want to start at a new host family.

You can also lose your permit under the rules on how a permit can lapse, if you stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months.

Read more on the rules on how a permit can lapse here.

There you can also find information about what you should do, if you are to stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months.