Working Holiday - Chile

The primary purpose of your stay should be to holiday for an extended period of time and secondarily to work in order to supplement your travel funds.

With a Working Holiday residence permit you are allowed to work to a limited extent. This means that you are allowed to work a number of months during a period of 1 year. You are also allowed to attend an educational course of limited duration.

Normally, if you have been on a working holiday stay in Denmark before, it is not possible for you to be granted a permit for a new working holiday stay.

It is a requirement that you are a citizen of and are habitually resident in Chile.

This also means that you must hold a valid passport issued by Chile.

You must submit your application for Working Holiday in Chile. If you submit your application in another country, we will reject your application.

You must submit your application using a printable form. You therefore cannot use SIRI's online application form. If you are a citizen of Chile and you apply using SIRI's online form, we will reject your application.

You must submit your application in person.

It is therefore important that you follow the instructions on the tab 'How to apply'.

The Working Holiday agreements have been made to give young citizens from these countries the opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures and ways of living. It is therefore a requirement that you are of a certain age.

You must be at least 18 years but must not have turned 31 at the time you submit the application for a Working Holiday residence permit.

It is a requirement that you have enough money to support yourself during your stay in Denmark.

You must document that you have sufficient funds equal to DKK 15,000. In addition, you must have a ticket to your home country or sufficient funds to buy one equal to DKK 5,000.

This means that you must show either DKK 20,000 or DKK 15,000 + a ticket to your home country.

Please note that if you show a return ticket as documentation of additional means of support (equal to DKK 15,000) and the return date on the return ticket is earlier than one year from the date of your permit, your permit will be shortened.

As documentation you can submit a bank statement that shows:

• Date of the statement (maximum 30 days old at the time of submission of application)
• Your full name
• Balance
• Currency

If you submit more than one bank statement, both statements must be from the same date.

Please note that we only accept documentation for liquid assets (that means assets that can quickly be realised into cash) which you have access to. Therefore, we do not accept restricted stocks, bonds or an investment portfolio as documentation.

A bank statement under another person's name (e.g. your parents), or a statement from others saying that your financial support is secured, will not be accepted as documentation either.

The documentation must be translated into English or one of the Nordic languages.

It is a requirement that you have insurance.

You must document that you have taken out a medical insurance covering hospitalisation.

The documentation must be translated into English or one of the Nordic languages.

In addition to your Working Holiday residence permit you will be granted a limited work permit.

Your work permit only grants you the right to carry out salaried work. This means that you are not allowed to work as an entrepreneur, i.e. you are not allowed to run your own business in Denmark.

Your work permit allows you to work for up to 6 calendar months during a 12 months stay.

The number of months is calculated from the number of months in which your employer reports payment of a salary. It is therefore irrelevant for how many days or hours in any given month you have been working.

If you work more than your limited work permit allows you to or if you work as an entrepreneur, the work will be considered as illegal work. Illegal work can, among other things, mean that your residence permit will be revoked.

You are allowed to participate in an educational or study programme with a duration of up to 6 months.

With a residence permit in Denmark, you are entitled to free Danish lessons. However, you must have turned 18 years and have your Danish address registered in the Danish National Register.

If you have a residence permit in Denmark based on work, study, etc. you have to pay a deposit before you can start receiving lessons. Be aware that you can lose your deposit if you do not pass the different modules within a specific timeframe.

Your municipality of residence is obliged to offer you Danish lessons and refer you to a language centre. If you have not been offered Danish lessons within a month after registering your address in Denmark, you can contact your municipality.

You will (typically) be taught together with other foreign nationals who have arrived in Denmark recently.

You must be able to support yourself during your stay. Therefore, you are not allowed to receive benefits under the terms of the Active Social Policy Act, study grants or housing benefits.

If you receive such benefits during your stay, your permit can be revoked – and you will lose the right to stay in Denmark.

If an authority, e.g. a municipality, disburses benefits to foreign nationals, SIRI will be notified.

See a list of benefits that you are not allowed to receive

A residence permit can only be valid until 3 months before the expiry date of your passport.

If your passport has a shorter validity than the otherwise possible period of stay, your residence permit will be shortened. This means that the validity of your residence permit will be shorter than it could be. When you have renewed your passport, you can apply for an extension of your residence permit – however, this can only be done 3 months before your permit expires at the earliest.

Read more about the passport requirements.

The permit can only be granted until the date to which your insurance is valid.

If your insurance does not cover you for a full year from the approval date of your permit, your permit will be shortened. This means that the validity of your residence permit will be shorter than it could be.

When you have registered yourself in CPR (the Central Person Register), or when you have taken out a new insurance, you can apply for an extension of your residence permit.