Marriage of convenience
The Immigration Service will conduct a thorough review of all aspects of your application for family reunification in order to determine whether there are particular reasons to assume that your marriage or partnership was established with the main purpose of obtaining a residence permit.
If this is the case, you will not be granted a residence permit.
Among the information considered is:
- Whether you and you spouse/partner have ever lived together at a shared address
- Whether you and your spouse/partner can speak the same language
- Whether there is a large age difference between you and your partner
- How well you and your partner knew each other before marrying
- Previous marriages (if applicable)
- Whether you and your spouse/partner have children together
If your spouse/partner in Denmark was previously married to a foreign national, and if this marriage ended shortly after the foreign national was granted a permanent residence permit, the Immigration Service will view this as a circumstance that indicates it was a marriage of convenience.
Your application may be turned down solely due to your personal situation, that is, if there are particular reasons to assume that your main reason for entering into marriage or partnership was to obtain a residence permit.