New immigration rules – Family Reunion – Permanent Visa – January 2016
Denmark approves the controversial refugee bill allowing police to seize asylum seeker’s cash and valuables, and delay the family reunions. Within this bill is also a lot of other new rules which apply for foreign students.
The new rules which have been in the media lately, will be enforced from 10. december 2015, even though the new rules only have been passed 26. jan. 2016.
Are the new rules against the Human Rights convention?
Many lawyers, larger danish and international organisations believe that the new bill being passed is in conflict with the Human Rights. The Danish government on the other hand believes that they live up to the international requirements, and have therefore passed the bill 26. jan 2016.
How does it affect my family reunion?
One of the controversial laws being passed is the right to family reunion, which have been tightened further. For refugees who came to Denmark and got the temporary protection status, their time they had to wait on family reunion is increased from one year to 3 years. That means this group of people have to wait 3 years before they can seek family reunion with their spouse og children.
For the ordinary danish citizen who wants family reunion with their foreign partner, this new law means they have to meet new requirements regarding payment for family reunion. Where as it was free in the past. This means the ordinary danish person is not directly influenced by the 3 year increase in the new bill.
What does this mean for permanent visa?
To get the permanent visa, or residence visa which it is also called, there are new rules from Jan 2016. Some of the rules will be mentioned here.
One of the new rules is that one have to have a minimum stay in Denmark for at least 6 years before one can seek permanent visa, whereas it used to take 5 years. This is only one of the many new laws passed last week. This unfortunately hits a lot of foreign students who have been in the country studying and passing the exams.
To receive the permanent visa one have to pass a Danish test which used to be Dansk 1, but now one have to pass the harder test which is called ”Dansk 2”. If one have had a criminal past, it will take 50% longer time than normal to obtain the visa.
All foreigns have to live up to 2 other of these 4 requirements.
- 4 years full time job, in the past 4 and a half years.
- Test in Dansk 3.
- Income of at least DKK 270.000 on average in the past 2 years.
- Pass the permanent visa test or one year voluntary work for an organisation.
There are also other new rules which we will be updating on this site. Follow us on facebook and be updated.