Your Things-to-do-list - Nationals from "Third countries"

Before arrival in Denmark:

1. Check whether you need a visa to enter Denmark, at the Danish Immigration Service website.
2. Contact the Danish Embassy/Consulate in your home country or country of residence, to check the latest changes in the application procedures for visa/residence and work permits. Find Danish Embassy
3. The department will send you an email listing af all the documents needed for the employment and also for the assessment of your qualification by the Danish Agency for International Education (formerly known as CIRIUS).
4. Send all requested documents to the department included the Application for assessment of foreign qualifications (filled in and signed).
5. Forms to the Danish Immigration Service (DIS) ST2, part 2 will be filled in and signed by the Department. The Department will send part 2 to The Danish Immigration Service (DIS).
6. The department will provide you with the application form ST2 part 1 and a copy of part 2, which has been sent to DIS from the department. This special form is designed to offer foreign researchers, who are employed by a Danish university, a fast track application procedure for a residence and work permit.
7. Apply for a visa/residence and work permit at the Danish Embassy as soon as possible after you have received the ST2 application form from the department.
8. Note that you are not allowed to start your employment before a residence and work permit is granted by the Danish Immigration Service.
9. In applying for a permit, DIS’ aim is to handle the application within 30 days – but sometimes the process takes longer than 30 days. If you have not received the letter of permit within 30 days, please contact the Department and the Department will contact DIS.

  

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After arrival in Denmark:

1. Register at the office of the Danish National Register (Folkeregister) in your town of residence within 5 days after your arrival to Denmark. Once registered you will receive a personal registration number (CPR-number) and a National Health certificate (Sundhedsbevis/Sygesikringsbevis) by mail within a few weeks.

 

2. Apply for a tax card at SKAT

 

or

 

if you are employed as a postdoc, an associate professor or as a professor, you can apply for 25 % taxation, Section 48 E of the Danish Withholding Tax Act. The department will provide you with the form. Read more about tax in Denmark in Tax in Denmark. An introduction - for new citizens, NOVEMBER 2005.

 

3. Open a bank account.

 

 

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Bring your permit, passport and information about housing with you.

 

If you live in Frederiksberg, you go to:

Frederiksberg City Hall

Smallegade 1

2000 Frederiksberg

 

At the National Registration Office (Borgerservice) they register data about the citizens of Frederiksberg. They also help people to get a CPR number and a National Health Service medical card.

Visit Frederiksberg Kommunes website or call:

Tel 3821 2100

Fax 3821 2970

 

Opening hours:

The Citizen Service Centre is open for personal
applications or by phone:
Monday - Thursday: 10 - 17

Friday - Saturday: 10 - 14

 

If you live in Copenhagen, you go to - depending on in which part of the city you live:

 

Borgerservice:

Indre By
Jarmers Plads 7
1551 København V

 

Sundby
AmagerCentret 147
Reberbanegade 3
2300 København S

 

Valby

Gl. Køge Landevej 3

2500 Valby

 

Vanløse
Vanløse Torv 1, 1. sal
2720 Vanløse

 

Østerbro
Trianglen 1
2100 København Ø

 

Opening hours:

Monday – Friday 10 -18

Tel.: 70 80 70 60

Email:

 

If you live elsewhere contact the local authority.

 

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TAX (SKAT)
Before SKAT can issue you a tax card, they require certain information about you. Among other things, they need to know how much you expect to earn during your first year of work in Denmark. You therefore need to bring documentation in the form of your employment contract or your offer of employment. Bring also relevant legitimation, e.g. your passport with you.

 

Your tax liability in Denmark depends on how long you are staying and on your employer’s ties with Denmark. A distinction is made between full and limited tax liability. Residents in Denmark and persons, who are staying in Denmark for a period longer than 6 months, are subject to full tax liability, and must pay tax in Denmark on their total income, including income from other countries.

 

Once SKAT has the necessary information, they calculate and issue a tax card which your employer can then use. They also ask that you inform them of your employer's name, address and company registration or CVR number (if any) so they can send the tax card directly to the employer.

 

TAX center Copenhagen (Skattecenter København)

Sluseholmen 8B
2450 København SV

 

Opening hours:

Monday - Wednesday: 10 -14

Thursday: 10 - 17

Friday: 10 - 14

 

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Go to the bank and open a bank account. Request your bank to register this account as a Nemkonto.

 

Bring relevant legitimation with you, e.g. your passport, letter with your CPR number and the employment contract or the employment offer.