Religious worker on the Faroe Islands
You will apply for a residence permit as a religious worker etc. or as accompanying family to a religious worker etc. on the Faroe Islands.
Questions and Answers
What do you need to know when you want to apply for a residence permit as a religous worker, etc. on the Faroe Islands?
Who can get a residence permit as a religious worker etc. on the Faroe Islands?
As a foreign national, you have the option of obtaining a residence permit on the Faroe Islands as a religious worker, missionary, nun or monk within a religious community, if you meet certain requirements.
What are the requirements?
You must provide documentation for your work
You can get a residence permit if you can provide documentation that you are to work as a religious worker, missionary, nun or monk within a recognized or approved religious community on the Faroe Islands.
You need to be affiliated with the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Folkekirken) or a religious denomination
You need to document that you are affiliated with the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Folkekirken) or another officially acknowledged or sanctioned religious denomination on the Faroe Islands. Documentation can be in the form of a written agreement or declaration by the denomination stating that you are a religious worker within the denomination or religious order.
The number of foreigners with residence permits as religious workers etc. within a religious community must be proportionate to the size of the religious community.
Which type of residence permit will you be granted?
The residence permit is granted for 1 year at a time for a maximum of 3 years. An extension presupposes that the religious worker's employment conditions within the religious community are unchanged.
If the religious worker is sent by the home country's authorities, the permit can however be extended for 1 year at a time for a total stay of no more than 4 years.
The residence permit can be extended beyond 3 years if the religious worker has marriage competence.
What do you need to know when you want to apply for a residence permit as accompanying family member for a religious worker etc. on the Faroe Islands?
As a foreign national, you have the option of obtaining a residence permit on the Faroe Islands if you are:
- spouse,
- cohabiting partner, or
- minor child
of a foreign national who is to reside, or who already resides, on the Faroe Islands as a religious worker etc.
What are the requirements?
You must provide documentation for the family relationship, and the residence permit is conditional on you having shared residence with the religious worker during the entire stay.
Which type of residence permit will you be granted?
You will initially receive a residence permit for the same period as applies to the religious worker. If the religious worker gets his residence permit extended, you also have the option of getting your residence permit extended for the same period, if you continue to meet the conditions for your permit.
How do you apply for a residence permit?
You can apply for a residence permit on the Faroe Islands as a religious worker etc. or accompanying family member of a religious worker etc. by completing and submitting an application form. You can fill in the application form in Word format on your computer before printing it out. The application form is also available as a PDF file that can be printed out and filled in by hand.
Please note that you can use the application form to apply for a residence permit on the Faroe Islands, even though it appears by the form that it is for application for a residence permit in Denmark. Forms that target applications for a residence permit on the Faroe Islands are currently being prepared.
You do not have to fill in/sign appendix 1-3 in the form, which is reserved for persons applying for a residence permit in Denmark. Your application as a religious worker etc., or accompanying family member of a religious worker etc., is exempt from fee payment.
Form you must use if you want to apply for a residence permit as a religious worker etc.
Form you must use if you want to apply for a residence permit as an accompanying family member of a religious worker ect.
Download form SF1 (pdf)
Enclose documentation
It is vital to the processing of your application that you include the correct documents.
The form contains a thorough description of how you and possibly the religious community must inform you when you apply and which documents you must hand in with your application.
How do you submit the application?
If the applicant resides legally in Denmark, the application can also be submitted to the Danish Immigration Service.