If you are going to have a child
What happens if you or your spouse get pregnant during your stay in Denmark?
Maternity or parental leave will have no influence on your residence permit.
You must, however, maintain the employment, which is the basis of your permit, and if we on a later date perform a spot check of your permit conditions, or when you apply for extension, you must be able to document the period of your maternity or parental leave.
If you have a permit according to the Pay Limit Scheme or the Pay Limit track of the Fast Track Scheme and you take maternity or parental leave, then you don’t have to meet the pay limit for the period in which you don’t receive your ordinary salary but receive childbirth benefit instead.
When the child is born, you must remember to apply for a residence permit for the child. Childbirth in Denmark does not imply that the child is automatically given a residence permit.
Neither the birth certificate nor the health insurance card is sufficient.
If you have a residence permit according to the Pay Limit Scheme, the Fast Track Scheme, the Positive List, Special Individual Qualifications, as a heardsman or farm manger, or other job schemes in which the permit is valid for working for one specific employer only, then you can receive childbirth support.
If you, alternately, have a permit with the purpose of getting a Danish authorization as a medical doctor or dentist, then you must be able to support yourself and any family members accompanying you, and you are not entitled to receive childbirth benefit or other public benefits.
If your child is born outside Denmark and you wish to bring it with you back to Denmark you will have to submit an application on behalf of the child from abroad.
Your child has to have its own residence permit.
As soon as possible the child has to get a passport from the homeland authorities.
As soon as the child has received its passport you must submit an application on behalf of the child as an accompanying family member.
Your residence permit will lapse if you give up your Danish residence or if you stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months.
Lapse of residence permit means that you no longer have the right to reside in Denmark.
Thus, if you plan to stay outside Denmark for more than 6 months it is important to apply for a dispensation of lapse before you leave the country.
You can find more information on dispensation of lapse and apply for it here.
