Denmark business visa (Schengen type C)

The business visa covers meetings, contract negotiations, trade fairs, conferences and visits to a client or group company. Researchers, scientists and speakers invited to teach for less than 90 days, and researchers staying 90 days or less in total, may be exempt from a work permit, but they still need a visa valid for the whole stay. If you will actually carry out work for a Danish employer, look at the work permit schemes or the Fast-Track short-term track instead.

The Danish company chooses the form that matches the relationship. VU1 is the standard business invitation and can be filed online with MitID Erhverv or on paper. VU5 is used when the Danish company is affiliated with your employer abroad. VF2 is only for companies that hold prior approval from the Immigration Service and only works online when you apply at a Danish mission; tell the application centre and mission that you are invited by a prior-approved company, or the case risks ordinary processing.

The fee is EUR 90 (DKK 669) for every applicant aged 12 or over, payable online in ApplyVisa, plus any service fee of the visa application centre. A group of up to 8 applicants can apply under one fee; larger groups register separately.

Frequent business travellers can be issued multiple-entry visas for 90 days in 6 months, or for 1, 2, 3 or 5 years. Apply up to 6 months ahead and at least 15 days before travel; where the mission has a backlog, apply as early as the rules allow. Only official meetings and similar urgent reasons are expedited.

A refusal by a Danish mission can be appealed free of charge to the Danish Immigration Service within 8 weeks. If the refusal was due to missing information, ask the mission to reopen the case with documents that describe the facts at the time of the decision.