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Changes to Denmark’s Honorary Consulates in the UK
We currently have 16 Honorary Consulates spread out across the UK. Soon we will have 12. However, Denmark will continue to be among the countries with the most Honorary Consulates in the UK!
The consular functions of our Honorary Consulates have changed over time. Today, the main function of our Consulates is to help Danish citizens with passport applications. Our Consulates can help with Danish emergency passports as well as passport applications for Danish children under 12 years old.
It is the policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark to continuously adjust the number of Danish Consulates around the world to ensure there is sufficient demand for consular services where we have Honorary Consulates. The Embassy has assessed the demand for consular services at our Honorary Consulates, taking into consideration the distance to the nearest Danish Honorary Consulate and any possible wishes for retirement among our Honorary Consuls.
We have Honorary Consulates in Aberdeen; Belfast; Birmingham; Cardiff; Dover; Edinburgh; Gibraltar; Hull; Liverpool; Manchester; Milton Keynes; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Portsmouth; Southampton; Stornoway; Wick. In the coming months our Consulates in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Stornoway; Wick; and Portsmouth will be closed down. Danes in those areas requiring passport assistance are very welcome to use any of our other Honorary Consulates in the UK or our Embassy in London.
Please direct any questions to the Embassy in London.
Possibility of Reopening Certain Cases on the Forfeiture of Danish citizenship
Possibility of reopening certain cases on the forfeiture of Danish citizenship under the former Section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act based on a judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Based on a judgment passed by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 25 April 2024 in the cases C-684/22 to C-686/22, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration has assessed that the ministry, when assessing the forfeiture of Danish citizenship as a result of being granted a foreign citizenship under the previously applicable section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act, must include a number of additional factors to carry out an individual assessment of the effects in relation to EU law of a forfeiture of Danish citizenship and thus of EU citizenship.
Such an assessment has not previously been made in cases in which a forfeiture assessment has been made pursuant to the previously applicable section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act.
In the future, in all cases when the forfeiture of Danish citizenship also entails the forfeiture of EU citizenship, the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration will thus assess whether the effects in relation to EU law of the forfeiture of EU citizenship are proportional to the forfeiture.
The Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration also assesses that there is a need to amend the Danish Nationality Act to ensure clarity about the citizens' legal position.
Please consult the Danish Minister for Immigration and Integration's briefing to the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, on the judgment and its legal effects here UUI Almdel Bilag 145 Notat om opfølgning på EUDomstolens dompdf (ft.dk).
Possibility of reopening a case
The judgment has legal effects from the commencement date of the interpreted rule, Article 20 of the TFEU, effective on 1 November 1993.
Former Danish citizens who were granted a foreign citizenship in the period between 1 November 1993 and before 1 September 2015, when section 7 of the Danish Nationality Act was repealed, and who thus lost their Danish citizenship, and who received a decision from the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration on forfeiture of citizenship, whereby they also lost their EU citizenship, can request that the ministry should reopen their case.
Read the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 25 April 2024 in cases C-684/22 to C-686/22 CURIA - Dokumenter (uim.dk).
Mitid
Now it has become easier to get a MitID if you are Dane and live abroad or if you are a foreigner and have a connection to Denmark.
In June 2022, a new function in the MitID app made it possible to create a MitID directly in the MitID app if you had a valid Danish, Greenlandic or Faroese passport. The function has been updated so you can also use foreign passports or ID cards with a chip to create MitID directly in the app.
Read more about getting a MitID: https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/apps-and-digital-services/mitid
Consequently, it should be easier to create a MitID if you live abroad, need a MitID, but do not have a valid Danish passport.
All you will need is a valid passport/ID card and access to a phone that can scan the chip: an iPhone 7 or above or a newer Android phone.
You will continue to be able to use NemID for all public self-service solutions until NemID finally closes on 30 June 2023.