Legislation and conventions
The Danish legislation about foreigners, the Danish Aliens Act, is mainly built on international conventions, signed by Denmark. According to these, foreigners who are recognised as refugees in Denmark, can either obtain convention status according to the Danish Aliens Act § 7, 1 (K-status) or protective status according to the Danish Aliens Act § 7, 2 (B-status).

Convention status
Convention status, which is the normal and original status for a refugee, is granted if you are being persecuted because of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion and thereby fulfil the conditions in the United Nations Refugee Convention.

Protective status
Refugees who risk the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment upon return to their country of origin will be granted protection status (B-status) although they do not meet the criteria in the Refugee Convention.

It is the European Convention of Human Rights’ article 3 that forms the base for the protection paragraph in the Danish Aliens Act.

The Dublin regulation
The Dublin regulation is an agreement between the EU countries, which ensures that an asylum case is tried in one and only one country.