because of coronavirusset is open borders for certain people. Foreign spouses are not among them.
Foreign nationals with spouses in Denmark don’t get into the country for the time being. It applies to both EU citizens and non-EU citizens.
This is because it is not a creditable purpose to visit his spouse, informs the national Police to the news agency Ritzau.
Since the Danish borders, closed the 14. march, is it only foreigners with a creditable purpose, that have been allowed to enter Denmark.
If you do not have Danish citizenship, living in Denmark or have a creditable purpose, you can be rejected by the police at the border.
such A purpose can be a variety of things. For example, it is creditable to work in Denmark, the supply of products in Denmark and to visit a very sick family members in Denmark.
It is not a creditable purpose to visit the healthy members of the family or his spouse in Denmark.
Radical Liberal party udlændingeordfører, Andreas Steenberg, calling it an unfair treatment.
– It is far-fetched, that it is not a creditable purpose, to a Danish citizen will have visits by his spouse and children. It is that I simply disagree with, he says.
Udlændingeordføreren have contact to several married couples where the one cannot come into the country for the time being.
– They miss a very large extent, their spouses and do not know when they may be allowed to see them again. It is a sad and for many also frustrating situation, it can be difficult for them to find out what they really should do, he says.
One of the few, Andreas Steenberg has contact with, is the Danish-brazilian couple Boje and Renata. They were married in march, but don’t live together and can therefore not be together in Denmark.
Udlændingeordføreren has therefore turned to the foreigners, integration, Mattias Tesfaye (S).
– I have said to udlændingeminister Mattias Tesfaye, I think they should make it on, says Andreas Steenberg.
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