Practical information

Representation agreements suspended

In some countries, Denmark handles visa case processing on behalf of other Schengen countries. However, due to various entry restrictions, the representation agreements have been suspended until further notice - except for applications for Iceland (regarding visas and residence permits), and Norway (regarding residence permits). Please refer to the relevant countries' authorities for more information.

Other countries, likewise, handle Schengen Visa applications for Denmark, for example the Swedish Embassy in Cuba and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jamaica. These representation agreements have also been suspended, thus applicants from these countries will have to apply for a Schengen Visa to Denmark through the Danish Embassy in Mexico.

Information about representation agreements can be found following this link.

Biometric data

Your fingerprints will be collected at the Visa Application Centre VFS global, when applying for a visa. However, where fingerprints have been collected as part of an earlier application less than 59 months before the date of the new application, you do not have to provide your fingerprints again. You must attach a passport photo which is no older than 6 months prior to application. Biometric data cannot be captured at the Danish Embassy in Mexico, except for biometric data for passports.

For more information on how biometric data is stored, please click here.

Please be aware that some applicants are exempt from supplying biometrics i.e. children under the age of 12, persons for whom fingerprinting is physically impossible, and Heads of State and members of national governments, as well as members of their official delegations, when they are invited by Member States' governments or by international organisations for an official purpose.

Possibility of Reopening Certain Cases on the Forfeiture of Danish citizenship

Possibility of reopening certain cases on the forfeiture of Danish citizenship under the former Section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act based on a judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

Based on a judgment passed by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 25 April 2024 in the cases C-684/22 to C-686/22, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration has assessed that the ministry, when assessing the forfeiture of Danish citizenship as a result of being granted a foreign citizenship under the previously applicable section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act, must include a number of additional factors to carry out an individual assessment of the effects in relation to EU law of a forfeiture of Danish citizenship and thus of EU citizenship.

Such an assessment has not previously been made in cases in which a forfeiture assessment has been made pursuant to the previously applicable section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act.

In the future, in all cases when the forfeiture of Danish citizenship also entails the forfeiture of EU citizenship, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration will thus assess whether the effects in relation to EU law of the forfeiture of EU citizenship are proportional to the forfeiture.

The Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration also assesses that there is a need to amend the Danish Nationality Act to ensure clarity about the citizens' legal position.

Please consult the Danish Minister for Immigration and Integration's briefing to the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, on the judgment and its legal effects here: UUI Almdel Bilag 145 Notat om opfølgning på EUDomstolens dompdf (ft.dk).

Possibility of reopening a case

The judgment has legal effects from the commencement date of the interpreted rule, Article 20 of the TFEU, effective on 1 November 1993.

Former Danish citizens who were granted a foreign citizenship in the period between 1 November 1993 and before 1 September 2015, when section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act was repealed, and who thus lost their Danish citizenship, and who received a decision from the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration on forfeiture of citizenship, whereby they also lost their EU citizenship, can request that the ministry should reopen their case.

Read the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 25 April 2024 in cases C-684/22 to C-686/22 CURIA - Dokumenter (uim.dk).