You have got a no to residence permit in Greenland
You can appeal Immigration Service rulings to the Ministry of Immigration and Integration. However, appeals about Immigration Service decisions regarding asylum must be submitted to the Danish Refugee Appeals Board.
You can appeal to the Ministry of Immigration and Integration if you are a foreign national covered by the Immigration Service's decision.
Party representatives can appeal the Immigration Service’s decision to the Ministry on your behalf. The Ministry considers certain professionals, such as lawyers and legal aid offices, as party representatives, who can appeal to the Ministry about the Immigration Service's decisions without a written power of attorney.
The Ministry also considers your closest relatives living in Greenland as party representatives who can appeal to the Ministry without a written power of attorney on your behalf. For example, parents, siblings, children of legal age and a spouse residing in Greenland can appeal to the Ministry about Immigration Service decisions in residence permit cases, e.g. cases regarding family reunification.
In cases regarding visas, the sponsor in Greenland can represent the applicant without a written power of attorney.
In cases regarding humanitarian residence permits, in addition to professional party representatives, the applicant's spouse alone can represent the applicant without a written power of attorney.
Other individuals or institutions/associations who wish to appeal a decision made by the Immigration Service must have a written power of attorney from the person who is covered by the decision in order to be able to appeal to the Ministry. Download power of attorney forms in Danish and English
You can submit an appeal to:
Ministry of Immigration and Integration
Slotsholmsgade 10
1216 Copenhagen K
Tel.: +45 61 98 40 00
Email: uim@uim.dk
The appeal should contain your Alien Identification Number or the IVR number and a copy of the Immigration Service's decision.
To shorten the case processing time for visas as much as possible, documents that are submitted to the Ministry in connection with an appeal about rejection of visa should be translated to Danish, English, French or German.
The Ministry receives an appeal about the Immigration Service's decision.
The office that processes the case obtains the records of the case and, if required, requests a statement or explanation about the case from the Immigration Service. The Ministry normally does not request a statement from the Immigration Service in visa appeal cases.
The Immigration Service forwards the records of the case and, if required, a statement about the case.
The Ministry conducts any party hearings about the Immigration Service's statement and, in special cases a supplementary hearing of the Immigration Service will be conducted.
The Ministry may seek to obtain further information or documentation, as well as conduct party hearings about this information.
The case is then ready for a decision in the Ministry. The Ministry makes the final decision in the case. Normally, however, additional processing time should be expected. The length of time varies depending on the type of the case, the character of the actual case and the number of cases being looked at by the Ministry.
You can appeal decisions made by the Immigration Service or the police to the Ministry of Immigration and Integration or apply to the Ministry of Immigration and Integration for a residency permit.
The Danish Personal Data Act obligates the Ministry of Immigration and Integration to inform you that when processing your case, the Ministry will handle the personal information about you wholly or partially with the help of electronic data processing, including gathering and forwarding of personal information about you. This also applies if you have appealed due to questions about the manner in which you application was processed.
The information is processed with the purpose of making a ruling on the occasion of your appeal or application.
Below is other information the Personal Data Act prescribes you should be informed of.
If you apply for a permit pursuant to the Aliens Act, you are obligated to contribute information about the case. You must, among other things, submit information necessary for the evaluation of whether a residence permit can be granted, or should be withheld or cancelled.
If you do not provide this information, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration may choose to deny your appeal or reject your application.
You can read more about the obligations for contributing to the information of the case in Section 40 of the Danish Immigration Act, below.
You have, if you so request, the right to be informed about which information the Ministry of Immigration and Integration is processing, the reason for obtaining the information, the categories of the recipients of information and where the information originates.
Requests for the above-mentioned should be directed to the Ministry of Immigration and Integration.
Processing of your request will be expedited if you provide the Alien Identification Number or in visa cases, the IVR number, or give other precise information which can help the Ministry of Immigration and Integration to quickly find the required personal information about you.
If the Ministry of Immigration and Integration processes incorrect og misleading personal information or in a similar manner processes personal information in conflict with the legislation, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration must correct or delete the information.
If your case is an appeal regarding a ruling made by the Immigration Service or the police, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration will obtain the documents of the case from the Immigration Service or the police.
All information you have given to the Immigration Service or the police in connection with the processing of the case will then be included in the Ministry of Immigration and Integration's processing of the case.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration will, if necessary, obtain information from the Aliens Register, the Common Visa System (WIVR) and the Central Persons Register.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration's processing of the appeal will likely involve forwarding information to the Immigration Service, the Refugee Council, local authorities, the police and/or Danish embassies or consulates to the extent necessary.
You can read more about the rights afforded you by the Personal Data Act below (Paragraphs 11 and 13).
Section 40. A foreign national must submit the information that is necessary for assessing whether a permit pursuant to this act can be granted, withheld or cancelled, or whether the foreign national is legally residing in Greenland. If summoned, the foreign national must appear for a personal meeting and upon request make available his/her passport or travel document as part of processing of applications pursuant to the Act. Other individuals deemed to be in possession of information that can influence the Immigration Service's decision can be required to provide the information named in Point 1.
(2) A foreign national must provide the Immigration Service with any information about his/her financial situation that is necessary for determining whether he/she can be required to repay any benefits received, cf. section 42a(4).
(3) If the police assume responsibility for the foreign national's outward journey from Greenland, the foreign national must provide any information required, as well as assist in providing the necessary travel documents and visa and for the outward journey. Upon request from the police, the court can, if deemed necessary, decide that a foreign national who does not wish to provide information required in order to carry out the repatriation must appear before his/her home country's embassy or consulate, or that of a third country, or that the foreign national’s finger prints, recorded in accordance with section 40(1) and (2), can be released to the foreign national's home country's embassy or consulate or the embassy or consulate of a third country. The court appoints a lawyer for the foreign national, cf. the Greenlandic Administration of Justice Act chapter 1, section 13 (2) on rulings made by the Greenlandic High Court as the court of the first instance. The court appoints a legal assistant for the foreign national. The court’s ruling can be brought before the Greenlandic High Court, cf. the Greenlandic Administration of Justice Act chapter 1, section 13 (2) and chapter 6, section 22 cf. section 12 on rulings made by the Greenlandic High Court as the court of first instance. Bringing the case before a court, cf. section 4, does not constitute a stay of the proceedings. When the court processes the case chapter 4, section 21 (2-6) and section 22 of the Administration of Justice Act are also applicable.
(4) If a person submits information in cases which fall under this law, the immigration authorities can demand that the individual make a sworn declaration.
(5) Individuals who make false declarations or in any another way aids or tries to aid a foreign national attempting to achieving a Greenlandic residence permit by deceit must reimburse the state for any expenses incurred as part of the foreign national’s inward journey, stay and outward journey or as part of the processing of the foreign national’s application. An execution of distraint order is added to the demand.
(6) For information in cases which fall under this law, examination can be admitted in the circuit court, cf. Title 8, section 1 and Title 1, section 13(2) of the Greenlandic Administration of Justice Act, both of which related to decisions made by the Greenlandic High Court as the court of first instance.
(7) Documents and items that may be considered as being important to determine a foreign national’s identity or affiliation to other countries can be taken into custody if it is deemed necessary. Similar provisions are made by Title 5, sections 8 to 9 and 10 to 12 of the Greenlandic Administration of Justice Act.
(8) If a foreign national who has applied for a residence permit according to section 7 fails to appear after having been summoned to a personal meeting at the Immigration Service or the police without a reported, legal absence, the foreign national's application for a residence permit is cancelled according to section 7.
The summons must contain information about the effects of absence. In special cases, the Immigration Service can decide that an application not be cancelled.
Section 11. Adequate steps must be taken to ensure that incorrect or misleading information is not registered. Incorrect or misleading information must be deleted or corrected as soon as possible.
Section 13. Data managers are required to respond as soon as possible to requests by individuals to be told which information about them has been registered.
(2) Data mangers can be required to inform individuals in their systems at regular intervals which information about him/her is contained in the register. Individuals should also be permitted access to the information. Guidelines for payment for the aforementioned can also be established.
(3) If a person listed in the hospital register or any other register of patients or illness sufferers requests access to the information contained about him/her in the register, such a request must be made to his/her general practitioner, who will contact the data manager for the register in question as soon as possible. The data manager will deliver the information about the person making the request to the general practitioner as soon as possible. The general practitioner will release the information to the person making the request.
(4) The terms of (1) do not apply if it is determined that other public or private considerations outweigh the individual’s interest in obtaining the information. If such considerations apply to only some of the information about the individual, the remaining information shall be released.
(5) The terms of (1) to (3) do not apply to registers established solely for obtaining statistics. Other registers can be made exempt from requests made under the terms of (1) if it can be assumed that a general refusal can be made according to the terms of (4).
(6) An individual who has been granted access under one of the abovementioned terms, may not make a new request for access for a period of 12 months, unless he/she can argue there are grounds for doing so.