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The Schengen countries are Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

If you are a citizen of a country with no visa requirement to enter Denmark, you can also stay in the Schengen region for a maximum of 90 days per 6 months.

The 90 days may be spread across one or more visits, depending on the number of entries you have been granted.

A visa i granted in the form of a visa sticker which is placed in your passport. The visa sticker indicates a period of validity which may be longer than the number of days granted. This gives you some freedom with regards to when the visa is used. In other words, you cannot necessarily stay in Denmark for the entire period of validity.

The Immigration Service recommends that you use a calender to count days from the date of entry until you reach the number of days you have been granted. Both the entire entry day and the entire exit day count, regardless of the time of day you enter or exit the country, as days are counted from midnight to midnight. Both the day of entry and the day of exit must fall within the period of validity. It is always your own responsibility to be aware how long you are allowed to stay in Denmark.

How is the six month period calculated?

The six month period is calculated from the date of first enty into the Schengen region. The date of first entry is:

• the date on which you entered the Schengen region for the first time, and subsequently
• the date of any subsequent entry into the Schengen region which takes place after the expiration of a six-month period.

This means that if you arrive for the first time in Denmark or another Schengen country on 1 February 2009, you can stay in the Schengen region for a period of three months (90 days) within the six-month period which ends on 31 July 2009.

If you return again on 1 October 2009 – i.e. more than six months after your very first entry into the Schengen region – this date will constitute a new 'date of first entry'. Therefore, 1 October 2009 constitutes the beginning of a new six-month period during which you can stay in the Schengen region for a period of up to three months.

If you arrive again on 1 June 2010, it will be this date which constitutes the next 'date of first entry', and so on.

Residence permits issued by another Schengen country

If you have been granted certain types of residence or re-entry permits in another Schengen country, you do not need a visa to enter Denmark. Read more about residence permits issued by another Schengen country.