The Danish immigration authority has denied a Filipino mother permission to stay in Denmark with her husband and their newborn daughter, according to Ekstra Bladet.
The 25 year old came to Denmark in 2016 to work as an aupair and soon after she met a 31-year old Danish man. The couple married in the final months of 2017, gave birth to a daughter and applied for family reunification at the Danish immigration authorities.
But on Wednesday the 9th of May, a letter dropped in. Family reunification was denied, she had to return to the Philippines. And yesterday, on Tuesday the 15th of May, she did, leaving her two months old baby in Denmark.
The reason for the denial was their house situation; at the moment they were living with is husband’s parents to save up money. The immigration authorities writes;
“By decision we have empasized that it is your spouse’s father who is noted as the renter for the contract on the property. Therefore it is not documented that your spouse either owns, rents or shareholds the property,” the authority writes in a document that Ekstra Bladet has obtained.
Ekstra Bladet asked why they hadn’t made sure that they fitted the requirements for reunifications when they applied:
“We weren’t aware that the rules were like that. We had interpreted it in the way that it was our own house with our own entrance and so on. If we had any idea that we risked rejection on that basis, we would have done something about it,” he tells Ekstra Bladet.
