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Citizenship for someone born and raised here by foreign parents (leddit.danmark.party)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hejsa,

I was hoping to get some advice and information on the process of acquiring citizenship for a Dane born to foreign parents. My wife was born in Denmark to foreign parents (UK, hence she has British citizenship), grew up here, and is now studying here. She is finally looking at getting her citizenship, however it seems as though her only option is via naturalisation, which seems to indicate that as a student and not a worker, she does not qualify. Is this correct? Is her only option to wait until she graduates, find a job, work another 3.5 years, then apply?

I understand that none of you may be immigration lawyers or experts, however any information at all would be greatly appreciated.

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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/WhileHammersFell at 2024-03-13 17:27:10+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nervous-Ant-Boss at 2024-03-13 20:22:31+00:00 ID: kuqb93i

Danish citizenship requires naturalisation or being born/adopted by a Dane as a child. Being born and raised in Denmark does not make her a Dane legally, it makes her a second generation immigrant. Hopefully on a legal residence, a criminal record will be bad for getting citizenship.

Unless marrying into the royal family is an option she'll have to do the naturalisation process as everyone else. Among other things she'll need fluency in Danish in a level, where she is able to google "dansk statsborgerskab" and read the Danish webpage about it. https://uim.dk/statsborgerskab/udenlandske-statsborgere/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

WhileHammersFell (OP) at 2024-03-13 21:14:17+00:00 ID: kuqkqc0

She has both legal residence and speaks Danish as her mother tongue, so no issues there; she was born here and spent her whole life here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TheoryEnvironmental6 at 2024-03-14 05:58:33+00:00 ID: kusqm7r

She needs the following:

permanent residence for at least 2 years after she acquired it
to work full time 3 and a half years out of the last 4. I repeat: if she doesn’t have a full time job for more than 6 months, this “timer” resets
no criminal record
pass the danish language exam
pass the danish citizenship exam
she needs to look at travel abroad(you are obliged to declare some of the travels if they surpass a number of days, a number of trips per year etc.)
if she has fines by the police(she needs to declare all of them. For example: fine for crossing a red light on a bike). Be aware that if the amount exceeds 3000dkk(please check the amount as this is what I recall) she would be quarantined for a couple of years

I guess that’s about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

WhileHammersFell (OP) at 2024-03-14 08:29:34+00:00 ID: kut33wv

She spent about a year and a half living in Australia (My home country) with me from 2019 to 2020. Do you think that would be long enough to have an impact?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

TheoryEnvironmental6 at 2024-03-14 08:58:42+00:00 ID: kut5dcy

It is really difficult to say, but it could be seen as a bit of a red flag that she does not want Denmark enough…

What I recommend is that instead of having 9 years in Denmark that she should apply when she has a bit more than 10 years instead. I see it as 2 ways: either they substrate the one year and a half and they can say that she does not fulfill the 9 years continuously requirement in Denmark. Hence, they can substrate this from the 10 years and a half then she is still able to fulfill it.

Or they just say that she is not integrated enough… unfortunately,there are several cases

I hope this makes sense!