{"id":172,"date":"2022-12-19T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:49:42","slug":"about-unhcr-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/about-unhcr-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNHCR in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR works to protect the rights and support better futures for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees and people at risk of statelessness worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Denmark, UNHCR supports the national authorities in executing their duties in line with international and European standards. UNHCR is <strong>not<\/strong> part of the asylum procedure in Denmark. The asylum procedure in Denmark is under the responsibility of the Danish Immigration Service under the Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR in Denmark is part of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/neu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNHCR\u2019s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries<\/a>, based in Stockholm (Sweden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not found the information that you were looking for on this \u2018HELP\u2019 website, please feel free to contact us via phone or e-mail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>+46 10 10 12 800<\/strong>\u00a0(temporarily closed until 4 August 2026)<br><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:swestprotection@unhcr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swestprotection@unhcr.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\"><strong>If you don&#8217;t speak either English or Swedish<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only answer calls in English or Swedish, you can send us an e-mail in your&nbsp;<strong>preferred language<\/strong>&nbsp;explaining your situation, and we will reply. Our reply will, in most cases, be in English, but we encourage you to use&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;if you have difficulties understanding it or send us another e-mail asking us to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons. UNHCR works to protect the rights and support better futures for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees and people at risk of statelessness worldwide. In Denmark, UNHCR supports the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/denmark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}