Legal counselling and assistance for asylum seekers
If you are seeking asylum in Denmark, you can get personal legal assistance through Danish Refugee Council’s Asylum Counselling, even if your application for asylum has been rejected. If you have questions about detention, reopening of asylum cases, deportation from Denmark or a letter you don’t understand, we can help you. If you have questions about family reunification and study- and work permits, you can contact The Danish Refugee Council’s Volunteer Council.
Counsel for detained asylum seekers
As a detained asylum seeker you have a right to personal legal counselling from the Danish Refugee Council, even if your application for asylum has been rejected. When you speak with the Danish National Police, you can inform them that you wish to speak to the Danish Refugee Council. You can also ask the prison staff to contact us if you wish for assistance. We regularly visit the prison in Ellebæk, where we assist everyone who requests it.
Personal contact and counselling via telephone and e-mail
The Danish Refugee Council visits the Danish asylum centres as often as possible. Here, we offer our counselling and answer questions. Notices about our visits to the asylum centres will be put up prior to the visit. Here you can see when we are coming and in which languages we can offer assistance. You can also visit our Wednesday counselling sessions in our office in Borgergade in Copenhagen. Here we offer counselling in Danish and English. The Wednesday counselling session is open to everyone each Wednesday between 1pm - 3pm. Or you can contact the Asylum Counselling on telephone 33 73 50 00 Monday through Friday between 9am - 3pm. You can also send questions via e-mail on advice@drc.dk in Danish or English.
Translation and confidentiality
When the Danish Refugee Council offers counselling at an asylum centre, there will be translators present. If you visit us at the Wednesday counselling session, and if you don’t speak Danish or English, you need to bring a person with you who can translate for you. The telephone counselling is also in English or Danish. Every employee at the Danish Refugee Council has taken a vow of confidentiality. This means that you can speak to us about anything and everything, including private information, which you don’t want the authorities to know about.
