In connection with the Department's work, we process information about individuals (personal data). The processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with the rules set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Danish Data Protection Act.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration processes personal data as secretariat for the Danish Immigration Appeals Board and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration is also responsible for this processing of personal data along with the Danish Immigration Appeals Board and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board. The Ministry of Immigration and Integration has therefore made data processing agreements with the Immigration Appeals Board and the Refugee Appeals Board. The agreements clarify the distribution of responsibilities with regard to the data protection of personal data area and ensure that your rights can be enforced effectively.
On this page, you can read more about the purposes of our processing of personal data.
You can read more specific information about the various purposes on the subpages. You can also read about the legal basis for our processing of the information, the types of personal data we process, whether we share the data with other recipients, and how we store your data.
In addition, you can read about your right of access to be told what we have registered about you and about how to contact us or our data protection officer.
We process personal data for the following purposes:
Assistance to the Danish Parliament
Applications for humanitarian residence permits
Sending out newsletters
Administration of subsidy funds
Statistics and evaluation within the field of the Ministry of Immigration and Integration
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, you are entitled to the following:
If you wish to exercise your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, you must contact the data controller, i.e. the Department of the Ministry of Immigration and Integration:
In order to be able to deal with your enquiry, we need to be able to uniquely identify you. This may be done, for example, by you referring to a case number or stating your full address or your civil registration number (CPR). We encourage you to contact us through a secure connection, for example by using e-Boks.
The Ministry has a data protection officer who provides advice to the Ministry on the rules governing processing of personal data. If you have any questions as to our processing of your data, you are welcome to contact our data protection officer. You can reach the data protection officer in the following ways:
You are entitled to file a complaint with the Data Protection Agency if you are dissatisfied with the way we process your personal data.
Read more about how to file a complaint with the Data Protection Agency (available in Danish only)
