If you are going to have a baby
What happens if you are an accompanying spouse and you or your spouse get pregnant during your stay in Denmark?
Maternity or parental leave will have no influence on your residence permit as an accompanying family member.
When the child is born, you must remember to apply for a residence permit for the child. Childbirth in Denmark does not imply that the child is automatically given a residence permit.
Neither the birth certificate nor the health insurance card is sufficient.
If you are an accompanying spouse, you can receive childbirth benefit, if you have earned the right to it.
You can find more information about maternity/paternity benefit on lifeindenmark.borger.dk.
Your residence permit will lapse if you give up your Danish residence or if you stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months.
Lapse of residence permit means that you no longer have the right to reside in Denmark.
Thus, if you plan to stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months it is important to apply for a dispensation of lapse before you leave the country.
You can find more information on dispensation of lapse and apply for it here.
If your child is born outside Denmark and you wish to bring it with you back to Denmark you will have to submit an application on behalf of the child from abroad.
Your child has to have its own residence permit.
As soon as possible the child has to get a passport from the homeland authorities.
As soon as the child has received its passport you must submit an application on behalf of the child as an accompanying family member.
