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The service administrates the Danish Aliens Act (Danish: Udlændingeloven), in other words, it handles applications for asylum, family reunification, visas, work permits, etc. In addition, the service is engaged in a wide range of other duties relating to the asylum and immigration area, including the task of accommodating asylum seekers.
Diplomatic missions of the Kingdom of Denmark. When in a non-EU country where there is no Danish embassy, Danish citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country. Note that the Faroe Islands belong to the Kingdom of Denmark, but not to the EU.
The Ministry of the State of Denmark was founded 1 January 1914, though its origin can be found in a small secretariat created in 1848, under the Council of State (Danish: Statsrådet) to assist the new Council President (Danish: Konseilspræsident), the name used for the Prime Minister of Denmark from 1855 to 1918. [3]
According to Statistics Denmark, in 2008 7% of all employed persons in Denmark were immigrants, and an additional one percent were descendants of immigrants. In 2021, immigrants made out 12% of total employment, and their descendants a further 2½%, so that the percentage of people of Danish origin had dwindled to 85.5% of total employment.
Minister for Integration (Danish: Integrationsminister) is a Danish ministerial office. The office was created by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on 27 November 2001 when he formed the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I after the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, in which refugees, immigration, and integration of people from non-western countries had been important issues.
Somalis in Denmark (Danish: Dansk-somaliere) are citizens and residents of Denmark who are of Somali descent. By December 2018, nearly 1000 Somalis in Denmark lost their residence permits after the Danish Immigration Service started a review of the permits in 2017. The permits were revoked as parts of Somalis are safe enough for refugees to return.
Any person registered as of 2 April 1968 (1 May 1972 in Greenland) [4] or later in a Danish civil register, receives a personal identification number. Any person who is a member of ATP or is required to pay tax in Denmark according to the Tax-control Law of Denmark, but is not registered in a civil register, also receives a personal identification number.
On 11 April 2013, the NemID system shut itself down in response to a DDoS attack, causing widespread chaos in Denmark where internet banking was not possible during the attack. [6] With Java version 1.7.0_45, NemID Java applet was not able to log users in. [ 7 ]