Information about the rules for housing placement of refugees:
Any refugee who obtains a residence permit in Denmark, and who has
never before held a residence permit in this country, is included
under the housing placement provisions in the Danish Integration
Act.
What this means, is that the Danish Immigration Service will
decide where in Denmark the refugee will live (Allocation of Refugees
- “visitering”). This decision is final, and cannot be appealed
to any other administrative authority in Denmark.
When deciding upon which municipality a refugee will be allocated
to, the Immigration Service has to take a number of factors into
account, hereunder any factors relating to the equal geographical
distribution of refugees that may have a bearing on the integration
of foreigners into Danish society in general. However, the
Immigration Service must also
consider any personal situation the individual refugee finds
him-/herself in, and that might be impacted by where
in Denmark the refugee will live.
Once the immigration service has
allocated a refugee to a particular municipality, the municipal
authority must then decide exactly where
in the municipality the refugee will live.
Refugees are the only group that
are allocated within the provisions for housing placement. Foreigners
arriving in Denmark under the rules for family reunification will not
be allocated to a municipality, as they already have a family
relation to people currently living in Denmark.
Read more on allocation under the
housing placement provisions in the Integration Act on NyiDanmark.dk
