Denmark

There are, depending on what type of host you are, the different invitations that you can use when you need to invite a subject to a visa requirement resident, on a visit in DenmarkIf the applicant submits his visa application at a Danish representation, you can benefit from using a digital invitation. If the applicant submits his application at another country's representation, as Denmark has a repræsentationsaftale with, for example Norway or Sweden, you must use a paper-based invitation. If you have completed one invitation, and the applicant submits the invitation id (only digital invitation) or the completed papirinvitation together with the visa application and other relevant documentation, it will in most cases shorten the processing time significantly. This will most often mean that the issue has been fully informed already at the time of application, so that no need to seek further information from the host in Denmark. If the applicant does not submit an invitation id or a papirinvitation together with the application, the applicant, by contrast, expect a longer processing time, since information must be obtained by the foreign office from you as the host in Denmark. If the applicant submits his her application at a Danish representation, you can pre-approved business organization benefit from using the digital invitation VF. Enter information on where the visa applicant will be staying during their stay in Denmark, and who bear the cost of the stay and the applicant lodges his or her application at a Danish representation, and your business organization is not pre-approved, you can use the digital invitation VU. If the applicant submits his application at another country's representation, you can only use the paper-based invitation. The invitation in Word format, you can fill in on screen before you print.

The invitation in pdf-format you must print out and fill in by hand.

If the applicant submits his her application at a Danish representation, you can benefit from using the digital invitation VU to invite a friend or a family member. If the applicant submits his application at another country's representation, you can only use the paper-based invitation. The invitation in Word format, you can fill in on screen before you print. The invitation in pdf format you must print out and fill in by hand. When you have posted a digital invitation, you will automatically receive a invitation id. If the visa applicant lodges his or her application at a Danish representation, you must pass the invitation id to the visa applicant. On the representation the applicant must inform the invitation id. The visa application will then be automatically coupled together with your invitation, within the representation are going to process the visa affair.

Invitation id can only be used if the applicant submit his or her application at a Danish representation.

If the applicant submits his application at another country's hospitality, the invitation id is not used.

This is because the representation does not have access to your digital invitation. If, nevertheless, you have posted a digital invitation, you can download a copy of the invitation via My Page. You must print the invitation and send it to the applicant, as the need to bring the invitation on the representation. The immigration office recommends that you sign the invitation in hand before you send it to the applicant. Here you can log on with NemID you used to sign your digital invitation. On My Side, you can see whether the applicant has been on the representation in order to submit his or her application, and the visa affair has been sent to Denmark for processing in the immigration office. You will also be able to see if there is a decision taken by the visa affair. Personal information about you as the host, which shall be indicated on the invitation, be given to the relevant authorities in the member states and processed by those with a view on the decision on the visa application. The data will be loaded and stored in the visa information system, VIS for a maximum of five years.

Here they will be accessible for the visa issuing authorities and the authorities performing visumkontrol at the external borders of the member states and of member states immigration and asylum services.

The information is saved for authorities to verify whether conditions for legal entry, legal residence and legal residence on the territory of the member states are met.

The information can also be used to identify persons who do not or who no longer fulfil these conditions, of examining an application for asylum and decide who has responsibility for such treatment.

Under certain circumstances, information will also be made available to the designated authorities in the member states and by Europol for the purposes of the prevention, detection and investigation of terrorist offences and of other serious criminal acts. You have a right to know what information is registered about you as the host of the SHOW, and the member state which transmitted the data. You can request that information about you which is inaccurate, to be fixed, and that the information about you that is illegally processed, are erased. The authority processing the application, informs you upon your express request, how you can exercise your right to access your personal data and have them corrected or deleted. You are also informed which the appropriate remedies according to the country's national legislation. You can use the form VS to request access to VIS (visa information system) and the information registered about you. The form is in Word format, you can fill in on screen before you print The form is in pdf format you must print out and fill in by hand. The national regulatory authority in Denmark (the Danish data protection agency) deal with complaints relating to the protection of personal data. Representations can be made to the Danish data protection agency.