If you move away from the family residence

If you do not live at a joint address with the sponsor, your permit will be revoked, except if there are extraordinary circumstances.

A residence permit as an accompanying family member is granted with a view to temporary residence, and only in absolutely exceptional circumstances can we refrain from revoking your permit. 

This could for example be the case if you suffer from a serious disease.

Before we revoke your permit, we will always offer you the opportunity to inform us about exceptional circumstances that can influence our decision. If it is possible you will have to document such circumstances.

Special rules apply if you no longer live with your spouse/cohabiting partner or parent because you or your child have been subjected to abuse etc. by your spouse/cohabiting partner. For instance, abuse etc. can be if you or your child have been subjected to physical or mental violence, assault or other harm, including negative social control. 

In such cases, you must prove to SIRI that you or your child have been subjected to abuse etc.

You can send any kind of documentation that you or your child have been abused etc. For instance, this could be:

• Police reports and any copy of the court judgment.
• Reports from emergency rooms and general practitioners.
• Statements from e.g. municipalities and crisis centres.
• Copies of text messages or messages on social media if they support your statement.
• Anything else that may support your statement.

You must also prove that the abuse etc. is the reason why you no longer live with your spouse/cohabitant, and you must have shown intentions and ability to integrate into the Danish society.

• For instance, this could be:
• Employment.
• Voluntary work.
• Danish lessons.
• Participation in associations or in the local community.

It will be included in our assessment if your integration has been hindered by your spouse/cohabiting partner, e.g. through domestic confinement, negative social control or similar.

Special rules apply if your spouse/cohabiting partner or parent dies.

In that case, you must send documentation that your spouse/cohabiting partner is deceased in the form of a 
death certificate.

If your spouse/cohabiting partner or parent is deceased, you must prove that you have shown intentions and ability to integrate into the Danish society.

You can send all kinds of documentation to prove that you have shown intentions and ability to integrate into the Danish society. For instance, this could be:

• Employment.

• Voluntary work.

• Danish lessons. 

• Participation in associations or in the local community.

If the sponsor moves away from the family residence, it has the same consequence as if you youself moved away. The basis of your permit will no longer be valid and your permit can be revoked.

If the sponsor is stationed abroad, and therefore moves away from your joint address then you can only uphold your residence permit for 6 months. Otherwise the condition of cohabitation will as a rule no longer be met.

Please find further information on lapse of residence permit and the posibilities of dispensation here.