Required documents for all visa categories
Please note that the following essentials must be met by all applicants submitting their applications for visa.
3 months valid passport from the date of applying for Danish Visa is mandatory, please note that The Embassy of Denmark, Ankara / The Consulate General of Denmark, Istanbul does not accept additional pages inserted into passports. If you do not have 2 blank pages to which a visa can be affixed, a new passport must be obtained before submitting your application.
Visa applications cannot be submitted earlier than three months before the expected arrival in Denmark.
Due to security reasons only the applicant will be allowed inside the application centres. Any accompanying family, friends etc. must remain outside the area
Processing time
In the below table the usual processing time at the Embassy/Consulate is indicated. The number of days is counted from the day the application is received at the Embassy/Consulate:
| Visa applications that do not need to be submitted to DIS |
Visa applications that do not need to be submitted to DIS |
| Business visits |
Family and turist visits |
| 5 workdays |
10 workdays |
|
Please note that if the Embassy/Consulate finds it necessary to submit the application to the Danish Immigration Service, any additional processing time at the Danish Immigration Service is NOT included in the above schedule. If the case is submitted to the Danish Immigration Service, their website can be consulted for further information about the processing time
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/processing_time.htm
Please Note: All applicants must submit their visa application in person at the Visa Application Centre.
The application centres also accept applications for Iceland.
Processed passports can be collected from The Danish Visa Application Centers in Ankara and Istanbul between 1100 to 1200Hrs - 1300 -1600Hrs. Applicants can instantly track the status of their application by clicking on
Track your Application.
Visa and residence permit for Denmark
A visa granted by a Danish representation normally grants you the right to stay in the entire Schengen region (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). Denmark also issues visas on behalf of Greenland, The Faroe Islands and Iceland in Turkey.
Applications for short term visas, work and residence permits must be submitted personally to one of the visa application centres in Ankara or Istanbul. Information about who is required to obtain a short term visa or residence permit to Denmark and conditions for this can be found on the Danish Immigration Service’s website
Visa:
http://www.nyidanmark.dk./en-us/coming_to
_dk/visa/need_visa/who_needs_visa.htm
Residence permit:
http://www.nyidanmark.dk./en-us/frontpage.htm
Holders of Turkish diplomat passports, service passports, and special (green) passports are allowed to visit Denmark and Iceland for up to 90 days without a visa.
Submissions of application for short term visa or residence permit in Turkey
Denmark has two visa application centres – one in Ankara and one in Istanbul. The application centres accept applications for short term visas, work, residence and re-entry permits. Please note that applications will only be accepted if the applicant is personally present.
Please note, that neither the Embassy, the Consulate, nor the application centres have any contact or cooperate with individuals outside of the centres offering to assist with visa applications and charging a fee. Any advice, translation etc. is at your own risk. Please be aware, that it is the sole responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all documentation is presented. Never sign a document if you are not certain that you have understood the content.
Only for residence permits
A processing fee will normally need to be paid – in addition to the fee paid to the Embassy/Consulate - when a foreign national applies for a residence permit, an extension of a residence permit, and for a permanent residence permit in the areas of family reunification, studies and work. Furthermore, a processing fee will normally need to be paid if a person wishes to appeal a decision or request that a case be reopened.
From now on these three steps must be completed in the following order in order to submit an application:
- Create case ID
- Pay the fee
- Submit the application
Further information about the application process and fees that must be paid to the Danish Immigration Service can be found on the Danish Immigration Service’s website.
http://www.nyidanmark.dk./en-us/coming_
to_dk/fee/about_fees/about_fees.htm
Certain groups of Turkish citizens are exempt from paying the processing fee in accordance with the Association Agreement between the ECC (now the EU) and Turkey on 12 September 1963, as well as the “Additional Protocol” of 1970 and Decision 1/80 of 1980. More information about which Turkish citizens who might be exempt from paying a fee can be found on the Danish Immigration
Service’swebsite
(
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_
dk/fee/about_fees/exemptions-for-turkish-citizens.htm)
If a person submits an application, appeal or request to reopen a case without paying the fee on the belief that he/she is exempt from paying the fee and the immigration authorities later determine that the individual was, in fact, not exempt, the application appeal/request will be rejected. In such instances, the person will need to go through the entire process again: create case order ID, pay the fee, and submit a new application/appeal/request.
If a person has paid the fee, but the immigration authorities find that he/she was, in fact, exempt, the fee will be refunded.
Legal analysis of the implications of the Toprak judgment
The Danish Ministry for Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs has interpreted the stand still clauses in the Association Agreement between the EEC and Turkey, including the judgment of 9 December 2010 of the European Court of Justice in the case C-300/09-301/09, Toprak et al.
The analysis can be found on DIS’s website (
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-
us/news/news/integrationsministeriet/2011/maj/legal
_analysis_of_the_implications_of_the_toprak_judgment.htm)
