Welcome
You could spend your whole life exploring the countryside of Ringkøbing Skjern Municipality. We are proud to welcome you to an area that offers coastline, lakes, woods, valleys, meadows, heathlands, and moors.
Whatever the time of year that you visit us, there is a wide variety of cultural life and other activities, both indoors and outdoors.
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Conditions for foreign citizens’ acquisition of Danish citizenship
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Do you have concerns about a child or young person?
There are many details and procedures to find out about when moving to a new country.
Ask at the Municipality Citizen Information Desk (Borgerservice) for information and assistance, both in English and German.
If you would like to meet some of the locals or other foreigners, then click on the
facebook group International's Ringkøbing-Skjern.
The Network arranges meetings between local residents and newcomers.
Foreign driving licens
Many tourists and visitors choose to get married here in the Municipality.
Here is information about Marriage how to arrange this, and the documents that you will need to bring with you.
The Danish healthcare system operates across three political and administrative levels: the state, the regions and the municipalities (national, regional and local levels).
The state holds the overall regulatory and supervisory functions in health and elderly care.
The five regions are responsible for hospital care, including emergency care, psychiatry, and for healthcare services provided by general practitioners (GPs) and specialists in private practice.
The 98 municipalities are responsible for a number of primary health and social services, for instance elderly care services, rehabilitation outside hospital, home nursing, child dental treatment, child nursing, and physiotherapy. In addition, municipalities co-finance regional rehabilitation services and training facilities.
The basic principle of the Danish welfare system is that all citizens have equal rights to social security. The majority of healthcare services are financed by general taxes and mainly provided free of charge.
Find contact information for healthcare professionals, public and private hospitals, and pharmacies on the website sundhed.dk.
The Danish Patient Safety Authority is the liaison body for healthcare and provides general guidance about the Danish healthcare system and access to healthcare in Denmark.
The Danish Patient Safety Authority is an authority under the Ministry of Health.
In every region in Denmark you will find a patient office. The regional patient advisers have knowledge of the healthcare services and can advise you on your options for the treatment, you request.
Both the Danish Patient Safety Authority and regional patient offices are also National Contact Points for cross-border healthcare in Denmark.
As an EU citizen or a citizen from Switzerland you may freely enter Denmark and remain in this country for up to 3 months without an EU residence document (registration certificate). If you are a job seeker, you may reside in Denmark for up to 6 months without a registration certificate. The periods of 3 and 6 months are calculated from the date of entry.
If you expect that your stay in Denmark will last more than 3 months, you have to apply for an EU residence document (registration certificate) before the expiry of the 3 months. Job seekers are required to submit their application within 6 months after entry.
Help regarding the EU residence document?
You can get help at one of the International Citizen Service centres:
Find additional information about residence in Denmark under EU:
If you are a citizen of Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden, you need not to apply for a registration certificate because as a citizen of a Nordic country you have a right to reside in Denmark without permission.
For more information about residence as an EU/EEA citizen:
If you are a citizen from a country outside Scandinavia, the EU/EEA or Switzerland, you must apply for a residence and work permit in your home country through a Danish mission, i.e. a Danish Embassy or a Danish Consulate General.
In the majority of cases, your future employer in Denmark will contribute with information for the application. There are several different options for a residence and work permit in Denmark. Your education, qualifications and the type of job you have been offered are important to how you should apply.
Be aware that after 20 May 2012, all non-EU citizens over the age of 18 applying for residence permits under the terms of the Aliens Act must have their biometric features (facial image and fingerprints) recorded when submitting their application. Biometric features will also be recorded when applying to renew a residence permit and when applying for permanent residence.
You must also be aware that a Danish authorisation can be a condition for your residence and work permit. For example, this applies if you are going to work as a doctor, dentist or a schoolteacher.
Read more about how you can apply for a residence and work permit:
In Denmark each person has a civil registration number, which is called a CPR number. CPR stands for Central Person Register. The CPR number is essential in relation to any contact with the Danish authorities and especially in connection to tax and social security issues.
If you are coming to Denmark to work for more than 3 months (6 months if you come from an EU/EEA country or Switzerland), you need to apply for a CPR number at the Danish National Register (Folkeregistret).
You can contact your local municipality’s Citizen Service centre or one of the International Citizen Service centres:
To get a CPR number you should bring along:
- Your work and residence permit (if citizen outside the EU/EEA, the Nordic region or Switzerland)
- Assignment/employment contract – Passport or personal ID
- Proof of your address in Denmark (e.g., rental contract)
- If applicable, documentation for changes of name (marriage/divorce certificate, etc.)
- If applicable, birth certificates for your children
- If applicable, a marriage certificate.
If your spouse and children accompany you to Denmark they must also register and obtain a CPR number. Once you have informed the municipal authorities of your arrival and have received a CPR number, you are included in the general Danish health insurance scheme. You will be asked to choose a doctor from a list provided by your respective municipality.
If you are coming to work for 3 month or less, you will get a tax number instead of a civil registration number. Your personal tax number works like a civil registration number, i.e. it is your Danish civil registration number.
When you work and move to Denmark, you are covered by the Danish health insurance system.
Most examinations and treatments are free, when you have a health insurance card.
The health insurance card is documentation that you are entitled to the services offered under the national health insurance scheme. You must therefore always bring your card with you when you go for treatment.
When you are covered by the national health insurance, you can register with a doctor/general practitioner (GP) and receive a (yellow) health insurance card. It is advisable always to carry this card with you as it is required whenever you need to see a doctor, a dentist or go to hospital – or when you want to take out books from the library.
Approximately 2 weeks after you have registered, your national health insurance card will be sent to your Danish address. The card will show your name and address, your CPR number and the name and address of your doctor.
Children are covered by the health insurance scheme together with their mother or father until they reach the age of 15. However, children must have their own health insurance card. Children born in Denmark automatically receive a health insurance card when they are named or christened.
Once children are 15 years old, they are insured independently of their parents and are free to choose their own general practitioner (GP).
The international health insurance rules vary according to where you are travelling to, how long you plan to be away for and the purpose of your trip.
If you travel within Europe for less than a month, you are covered by the tourist health insurance scheme in most cases.
If you travel within Europe for more than 1 month or for purposes other than holidays or studies, you will need a European health insurance card (in Denmark also known as the blue card).
Special rules apply if you travel in the Nordic region, Greenland, the Faroe Islands or in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
If you travel outside Europe, or if the tourist health insurance card or the European health insurance card does not provide sufficient cover, you should think about taking out private travel insurance.
If you spend more than 6 months travelling, you normally lose the right to health insurance cover in Denmark.
Additional information
You can contact your local municipality's Citizen Service if you need help or further information.
If you need medical treatment during travels in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein (EEA), or Switzerland you will have to use the blue European health insurance card.
How can you order the blue European health insurance card?
If you are covered by the Danish health insurance, you can order the card for free online. If you, in the case of special circumstances, are not able to order the blue card online, you can contact Udbetaling Danmark by phone +45 70 12 80 81.
When you receive salary from your employer it is useful to have a bank account. To open a bank account, you need to contact a bank of your own choice. Remember to bring photo ID (for instance your passport) and address information.
You can only open a bank account with a Danish bank once you have obtained your tax card. As you are not a registered citizen in Denmark, the bank will want to see your:
- Passport
- Tax card
- Contract of employment and payslip
As a resident in Denmark, you will need to have a NemKonto assigned to be able to receive payments from Danish public authorities – for instance payments such as tax refunds, child subsidies, student loans, unemployment benefits or holiday allowances.
A NemKonto is a normal bank account. You choose yourself which of your accounts – foreign or Danish – you want to be your NemKonto. Payments from public authorities will be transferred directly to this account.
Find more information on NemKonto, how to establish a NemKonto or to assign a bank account as your NemKonto:
When you come to Denmark to work, you will need a civil registration number (CPR number) or a personal tax number, depending on whether you take up a short or a longer residence in Denmark.
CPR number – if longer period in Denmark
If you are working in Denmark for more than 3 months (6 months if within EU/EEA or Nordic countries), you will need to apply for a CPR number at the Danish National Register (Folkeregistret).
You can always contact your local municipality’s Citizen Service centre or one of the International Citizen Service centres.
Personal tax number – if short period in Denmark
If you are working in Denmark for 3 months or less, you will get a personal tax number instead of a civil registration number. Your personal tax number works like a civil registration number, which means that it is your Danish personal identification number.
There are 2 ways of getting a personal tax number:
1) Danish Tax Agency: You can request a personal tax number by completing form no. 04.063 from the Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen):
2) Tax centre or International Citizen Service: You can also contact your local tax centre or one of the International Citizen Service centres to obtain your personal tax number.
- Remember to bring form no. 04.063, ID with picture, such as passport or ID card, and marriage certificate (if you are married).
- Citizens from outside the EU, Switzerland or the Nordic countries must also bring a work permit.
If you have previously worked in Denmark, you will already have a civil registration number or a personal tax number.
In order for your employer to know how much tax to deduct from your salary, you need a tax card. A tax card (skattekort) is a digital piece of information telling your employer your tax rate.
The tax card contains information about your withholding rate, deductions and allowances. You can see your tax card information on the first page of your preliminary income assessment (forskudsopgørelse).
Apply for a tax card
You can apply for a tax card by following the same procedure as used for the personal tax number in the section above.
This means that you must complete form no. 04.063 from the Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen).
When you have completed the form (04.063) and attached or enclosed the documents required, you will receive a preliminary income assessment (forskudsopgørelse) within 2 weeks.
In your preliminary income assessment, you can see your withholding rate, your monthly tax-free allowances and deductions, and what the Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen) expects your income and allowances and deductions to be. The tax card (primary tax card, secondary tax card or tax exemption card) is a part of your preliminary income assessment. Your employer will receive your tax card directly from the Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen). You cannot hand in your tax card yourself.
There are a great many things to take care of when you arrive in Denmark as a foreign employee.
You can always get help at one of the International Citizen Service centres (ICS), or you can contact your local municipality.
All the public authorities you typically need to contact are represented at the International Citizen Service centres. The ICS centres make the contact to Danish authorities as easy as possible. In most cases, you will only need to visit an ICS centre in order to take care of your paperwork with regard to residence permit, registration certificate, tax card, civil registration number (CPR), health insurance card etc.
You can also get help at International House Copenhagen.
Most of the online self-services are in Danish, but you can always get help to fill in forms and online applications at the local Citizen Service centre. Or maybe you can get help from a Dane. Remember to bring your MitID.
The film 'Welcome to Digital Denmark' introduces you to some of the public digital solutions that are used in Denmark, e.g. Digital Post and MitID:
It can be challenging for any international citizen to get an overview of the many steps you have to go through when settling down in Denmark.
In this overview you will find the typical steps you will go through as a professional. If you have come to Denmark as an accompanying partner or as a student, you may also find the guide useful.
Check out the visual guide:
Non-disclosure of name and address means that your name and address will not be provided from the CPR (Central Person Register) to individuals, banks, PostNord, etc.
You must apply digitally to register for non-disclosure of name and address in the CPR. If you are not able to apply yourself via the internet, you can seek help from the municipality.
Apart from yourself, you may apply for your spouse and children below the age of 18, if you are registered at the same address.
Once the application has been made, individuals will in principle be prevented from obtaining your name and address from the CPR. Neither your name nor your address will be released from the CPR for use by private local directories or by PostNord.
PostNord
If you have opted for non-disclosure of your name and address, PostNord will not be automatically notified of this.
Once you have registered for non-disclosure of your name and address, this will generally be valid for 1 year.
After this period, you must remember to apply again if you wish to renew the non-disclosure of your name and address.
Public authorities can access your name in the CPR.
In principle, private creditors who are awaiting payment of an invoice may ask to have your address released from the CPR by contacting the municipality.
MitID
If you have registered for non-disclosure of your name and address, you can inform MitID of an alternative mailing address, so that you can receive code display or audio code reader. You must remember to keep the alternative mailing address updated on MitID.dk.
PostNord
If you have opted for non-disclosure of your name and address, PostNord will not be automatically notified of this.
Once you have registered for non-disclosure of your name and address in the CPR, you will automatically be protected against having this information released from the CPR for use in local directories.
If you do not wish to register for non-disclosure of your name and address in the CPR, you can instead register not to have your name and address released from the CPR for use in local directories.
If you wish to appeal a decision made by the municipality under the Danish Civil Registration (CPR) Act, you can do so to the Ministry of the Interior and Health (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet).
The appeal must be made in writing to the municipality that made the decision, and within 4 weeks from the day you were notified of the decision.
MitID
Register for NemSMS
It is free to register for NemSMS. You can register and opt out by doing the following:
- Log in to Digital Post with your NemID/MitID.
- In the menu, you will find 'NemSMS – text message service'.
- Now you can register for or opt out of NemSMS. At registration, it is important that you register the correct mobile number.
If you are signed up for Digital Post and have already chosen to receive messages regarding new post via text messages (SMS), the NemSMS solution will use the same mobile number to send you service messages. If this is the case, you only need to accept the terms for NemSMS at registration. When you accept the terms, you are giving all public authorities who use NemSMS permission to send you service messages.
What if I get a new mobile number?
If you change your mobile number, you have to inform the public sector about your new number, to ensure that service messages (NemSMS) and messages concerning new post (Digital Post) are sent correctly to you. You alone are responsible for updating your mobile number.
You can change your mobile number by doing the following:
- Log in to Digital Post with your NemID/MitID.
- In the menu, you will find 'NemSMS – text message service' and within this menu 'View and edit your mobile phone number', where you can change your mobile number.
NemSMS only supports Danish telephone numbers
The solution for public NemSMS only supports Danish telephone numbers. In other words, it is only possible to register a mobile number with the country code +45.
NemSMS is a public text message service, where you can receive service messages per text message (SMS) from public authorities. The solution is called NemSMS, because it makes it easier for you to remember your appointments with the public authorities.
NemSMS only supports Danish telephone numbers (country code +45).
You can still be registered for NemSMS, even if you are exempt from Digital Post.
What is the difference between service messages (NemSMS) and messages concerning new post (Digital Post)?
- The NemSMS service gives you the opportunity to receive service messages per text message from the public authorities, for example regarding the payout of your holiday allowance or as a reminder of your appointment at the hospital.
- The Digital Post solution gives you the opportunity to receive messages concerning new post via email and text message, when new post arrives in your digital mailbox.
You are not automatically registered for NemSMS, even if you receive messages concerning new digital post via text message.
Films about NemSMS
You can find an overview of animated films on the Agency for Digital Government's website regarding NemSMS, Digital Post and MitID. The animated films are available in Danish, sign language, English, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Farsi and Somali:
As an example, NemSMS helps you to remember your appointments with public authorities. If you have an appointment at the hospital, you will receive a reminder of the appointment. You can also be informed about when your holiday allowance is paid out, and when the pay is expected to be in your account.
If you are looking for an adventure playground for the whole family, take a trip to the Momhøje Nature Centre.
Covering an area equivalent to 120 football pitches, there are footpaths, barbeque areas, adventure playgrounds, bridle paths, mountain bike routes, and overnight shelters.
A mix of woodland, heaths and bogs, part of the area was also once a lignite quarry, resulting in a varied and fascinating terrain.
Pension in Denmark
In Denmark there is a coordinated admission for undergraduate higher education programmes university bachelor programmes, professional bachelor programmes and academy profession programmes.
This means, that you can apply digitally for admission to up to 8 different educational programmes, but you will not get an offer for more than one programme.
It is mandatory to apply via the national application portal www.optagelse.dk.
You can apply for admission to higher education programmes taught in Danish or English.
If you are disabled and you are unable to use the digital application system, you may contact the educational institution to be exempted and get a permit to send an application by mail. In that case the educational institution will provide paper forms.
The application portal will take you through all necessary application steps, and there is a detailed guide, on how to fill out the application available to you in English.
If you want to apply for at graduate programme, you must contact the relevant educational institution, as the application process is established locally at the educational institution.
Applications to undergraduate higher education programmes in Denmark are assessed locally at the institutions, but coordinated centrally from the Coordinated Admission at Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science to ensure that you only receive one study offer.
Entry requirements can be found on optagelse.dk and on the websites of the local educational institutions.
Find information about required documentation on optagelse.dk or on the website of the educational institution.
All documentation has to be uploaded on www.optagelse.dk in PDF format.
No, there are not any application fees on optagelse.dk. Some educational institutions will have application fees for non-EU residence.
You can receive general guidance at 'eVejledning' and 'Studievalg Denmark' on the choice of education programme and application procedure. The guidance counsellors can help you to get an overview and ideas for your education choices.
For specific questions about an education programme, you must contact the educational institution directly. Both Studievalg and eVejledning will refer you to the institution, if they are not able to answer your questions.
Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
Haraldsgade 53
DK – 2100 Copenhagen
Phone: +45 72 31 78 00
Email: ufs@ufm.dk
Complaints have to be directed to the educational institution that made the decision. Once you have received a reply to your complaint, you will receive a guide on how to appeal the decision with regards to legal deficiencies to the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
- Application portal optagelse.dk (in Danish)
- FAQ about filling out the application form on optagelse.dk
- Guide to citizens from EU and EEA countries, who wish to apply for admission to an English taught higher education programme in Denmark
- General information about the rules for admission to higher education in Denmark
- eVejledning offers personal guidance by chat, email, and telephone daytime, evening and weekends (new window)
- Studievalg Denmark consists of 7 regional centres. They offer personal guidance during opening hours and also by email and telephone
Visit the website visitvesterhavet.dk for all tourist information.
Listing tourist events, places to visit, and with information ranging from water sports to local culinary experiences, where to fish and bird reserves to flea markets and bathing beaches, riding or cycle routes, this site has everything you need.
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