Information about EES

The EES (Entry/Exit System) is a digital entry and exit system in which all your entries and exits across the external Schengen borders (including the external borders of the Faroe Islands and Greenland) are registered. You are registered if you are a third-country citizen and are traveling in connection with a short stay (a stay on a visa or visa-free stay). If relevant, information about whether you have been refused entry is also recorded.

Your entries and exits are registered digitally, thereby replacing the physical entry and exit stamps in passports.

When you enter for a short stay, you may remain in the Schengen Area for a maximum of 90 days within any 180-day period. The 90 days also include short stays on the Faroe Islands and in Greenland. If you are subject to a visa requirement, you must also always comply with the validity of your visa. The EES makes it possible to monitor how much time you have left of your short stay – and thus also whether you are residing legally in the Schengen Area.

Read more about the EES, including which countries use the EES, on the European Commission’s page about EES

Read more about how long you may stay in Denmark and the other Schengen countries

You are registered in the EES if you are a third-country citizen and you cross an external border of the Schengen Area or a country that uses the EES, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and you are traveling in connection with a short stay (a stay on a visa or a visa-free stay).

Read more about who is considered a third-country citizen and which countries that use the EES on the European Commission’s page about the EES [link to: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/what-is-the-ees##]

As a general rule, you are not registered in the EES if you are:

• a citizen of a European country that uses the EES, as well as Cyprus and Ireland,
• a third-country citizen holding a residence permit in a Schengen country, or
• a third-country citizen holding an EU residence document.

There are also other groups of persons, in addition to those mentioned above, who are not registered in the EES.

Read more about who is not covered by the EES on the European Commission’s page about the EES

If you are granted a residence permit in Denmark or in another Schengen country, any information about you in the EES will be deleted when you get a residence card or when you enter on a long-stay visa (in the form of a D-sticker). You will not be registered in the EES as long as you hold such documentation for your residence permit.

If your residence permit in Denmark expires, you may, in certain cases, be allowed to remain in the Schengen Area for a short stay following the expiry of your residence permit. In that case, you can get your stay registered in the EES. Read more about registration in the EES of short stays after the residence permit expires

If you are granted a residence permit in Greenland or on the Faroe Islands, any travel file you may have in the EES will not be deleted, and you will continue to be registered in the EES when crossing an external Schengen border. Read more about the EES and residence in Greenland and on the Faroe Islands

When you are registered in the EES, a number of your personal data will be recorded. This includes, among other things, information in your passport as well as your facial image and fingerprints. If you do not provide the required information, you will be refused entry into the Schengen Area.

Read more about the processing of your personal data in the EES

How you are registered at the border to the Schengen Area depends on whether it is the first time you are crossing the border after the EES has been implemented.

Read more about border control on the European Commission’s page about the EES 

Please note that a mobile app you can use prior to registration in the EES is currently not available in Denmark.