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Airport Transit Visa (ATV)

Indian passport holders do not need an airport transit visa for an airside connection at Copenhagen. Who does need Denmark’s ATV, and what you need if you leave the airport.

Straight answer: No. Indian passport holders do not need an airport transit visa for Denmark. India is not on the list of nationalities Denmark requires an ATV from, so an airside connection at Copenhagen between two non-Schengen flights needs no visa. You only need a Schengen short-stay (Type C) visa if you leave the transit zone, collect baggage or change airports.

This page exists because Copenhagen is a common connection point and the question gets searched constantly. The answer for an Indian passport holder who stays airside between two non-Schengen flights is that no visa is needed at all, because India is not on Denmark's airport-transit list. The people who do need the ATV are nationals on that list, and for them the fee is €90, processing 15 calendar days from the Embassy receiving the file, extendable to 45. What changes the answer for anyone is leaving the transit zone: collecting bags, changing airports, or staying overnight in the city all need a Schengen short-stay visa, whatever your nationality.

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Processing time
About 15 days
after you submit

No visa is ever guaranteed — the final decision always rests with the Denmark visa authority. We make sure your file is presented at its strongest.

Processing

15 calendar days

Stay Duration

Airport transit zone only

Starting Fee

€90

Apply At

11 VFS centres

Done-for-you · End-to-end filing

Your whole Denmark Airport Transit Visa, handled for one honest price.

A strong Denmark file clearly explains your travel purpose, funds, and ties to India. We structure and submit everything properly — so your case is presented clearly and professionally.

All-in · 18% GST included · no hidden charges

₹5,999all-in · GST incl.

File-ready in 3–5 working days after documents

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Everything below — included, nothing extra

  • Document checklist
  • Application form guidance
  • Document review
  • Cover letter
  • Purpose of travel structure
  • Financial proof review
  • Sponsor document guidance
  • Submission & appointment support
  • Post-submission guidance
Licensed consultant files it Govt/VFS fees paid direct — never marked up

Not sure you qualify? Start with a refundable ₹499 possibility report — an honest Yes / Maybe / No, credited to this fee.

Price is for our consultancy service only and includes 18% GST. No agency can guarantee a visa — the final decision rests with the visa authority.

Your fee, in one glance

What the ₹5,999 fee covers for a Denmark file

  • We work out what your case actually is, before touching a form
  • We build the checklist around your profile, not a template
  • We read your documents against each other, not against a list
  • Financial proof review
  • Purpose of travel structuring
  • Cover letter / explanation support
  • Return ties review
  • Sponsor / invitation guidance
  • Application form guidance
  • Submission & appointment support
  • Biometrics guidance
  • Post-submission support

Government, VFS, insurance, ticket and hotel costs are separate and charged at cost. Read what each item means, in full.

Good to know before you apply

Rules that apply to every Denmark visa type — worth a quick read so nothing trips up your file.

  • 1Apply at least 15 days before travel — up to 6 months ahead is accepted. You may be called for an interview at the Embassy.
  • 2Your passport must be valid for at least 3 months beyond your intended stay, have at least 2 blank pages, and must have been issued within the last 10 years.
  • 3Handwritten or non-machine-readable Indian passports issued after 01/04/2010 are NOT accepted.
  • 4Carry any old/expired passports — the Embassy wants to see all previous Schengen entry/exit stamps.
  • 5Travel medical insurance covering minimum €30,000 is MANDATORY for all Schengen countries, covering the entire trip plus COVID-19 treatment and emergency medical evacuation.
  • 6Bank balance: minimum DKK 350 per day (private accommodation) or DKK 500 per day (hotel). Last 3 months statement required — stamped and signed by the bank — even if you are being sponsored.
  • 7Missing documents can be sent to VFS within 3 business days, in person OR via email to delambvisa@um.dk.
  • 8Do NOT purchase your flight ticket until your visa is approved — only reservations are needed at application.

Who Can Apply

  • Nationals on Denmark’s airport-transit list (for example Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nigeria) connecting inside the international transit zone
  • Listed-nationality passengers flying through Copenhagen (CPH) to reach a non-Schengen destination

Not eligible under this visa:

  • Indian passport holders staying airside — you need no visa for the connection
  • Anyone planning to exit the airport — apply for a Schengen short-stay visa instead
  • Passengers with a direct flight (no stopover requiring transit zone entry)

What it costs

Government & VFS fees

Paid directly to Denmark / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.

ItemAmount
Adult visa (Schengen Short-Stay) — Embassy fee€90
Children 6–12 years — Embassy fee€45
Children under 6 years — Embassy feeFREE
VFS service charge₹2,052
Courier (outside Delhi)₹432

Embassy fees are set in EUR by the Royal Danish Embassy — the actual INR charged at VFS varies with the daily exchange rate. VFS service and courier fees are fixed in INR. All fees payable in Cash / Card / UPI and are non-refundable regardless of visa outcome. Approximate total for an adult tourist/business visa: €90 + ₹2,484 (~₹10,584 at current exchange rates).

Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary

What Denmark actually requires — and what it does not.

Denmark applies the Schengen rules, so travel insurance is not a nice-to-have — it is a legal condition of the visa.

2 of 4 are compulsory for Denmark

Expected

Flight reservation

The Denmark consulate wants a return itinerary with a real PNR covering your exact dates. It does not want a paid ticket, and buying one before a decision puts your money at risk for nothing.

Where people slip: Flying into one city and out of another with nothing showing how you travel between them. Officers read the whole route, and an unexplained gap reads as a plan that does not hold together.

How to hold a flight without paying
Required

Hotel booking

Accommodation for EVERY night of the stay. Not most nights — every one. A gap is a documented refusal ground under the Schengen code.

Where people slip: Free-cancellation bookings are accepted, but if the entire file is free-cancellation the officer sees a trip nobody has committed to. Some of it should be real spend.

Refundable hotel booking, explained
Required

Travel insurance

Minimum EUR 30,000 medical cover, valid in every Schengen state, including repatriation and emergency medical evacuation, for the full period of stay. Regulation (EC) 810/2009 — this is law, not preference.

Where people slip: Buying cover for the adults and forgetting the children. Every traveller needs their own EUR 30,000, infants included — a real refusal we have seen on a family of four.

What the cover must actually say
Expected

Travel itinerary

A day-by-day plan matching your flights, your hotels and the country you applied to. Denmark must be your main destination or your first point of entry, or you are at the wrong consulate.

Where people slip: Spending more nights in another Schengen country than in Denmark. That gets a file rejected before it is even assessed.

The letter your itinerary attaches to

We arrange all four for your Denmark file.

We are a B2B travel agency as well as a visa consultancy, working with partners including Riya Travel — so the flight, the hotel and the policy all come from us, issued the same day, and you deal with one team instead of four. Every booking is a real one under your own name.

What to gather

Documents required

Having a document isn't the same as presenting it right — that's the part we handle.

Core Documents

4 items
  • Passport / travel documentRequired

    Valid 3 months beyond expiration, issued in last 10 years

  • Application form + 1 recent original passport-size colour photoRequired

    35–40mm × 45mm, white background

  • Proof of means of transport (connecting flight tickets)Required

    Entry flight + connecting onward flight out of Denmark

  • Proof of lodging at final destinationRequired

Financials

1 item
  • Proof of financial meansRequired

    Cover the stay in transit + return trip costs

Final Destination

1 item
  • Valid visa for final destinationRequired

    US / UK / Canada / Australia visa OR any Schengen visa issued in last 3 years in the passport

For Minors

2 items
  • Both parents/guardian affidavit
  • 1st & last page of parents' passports

Other

3 items
  • Colour photocopy of valid passport (all pages)Required
  • English translation of non-English documentsRequired
  • Documents in A4 size onlyRequired

Required · optional / if applicable

The journey.

5 steps from intake to approval. Curved spine on the right shows the natural pace — never as linear as government sites pretend.

  1. 01

    Confirm you need an ATV

    Indian passport holders staying inside the transit zone do not need one. Only nationals on Denmark’s list apply for an ATV; anyone who plans to step out of the airport needs a Schengen short-stay visa instead.

  2. 02

    Fill form + pay fee online

    At applyvisa.um.dk — specify 'Airport Transit' as visa type.

  3. 03

    Book VFS appointment

    Apply at your nearest VFS centre in India.

  4. 04

    Submit documents + biometrics

    A4 size documents, all English or translated.

  5. 05

    Decision

    Minimum 15 days — excludes VFS handling time between VFS and Embassy.

What works

3 levers that flip a borderline case.

  • ATV does NOT permit stepping out of the airport — even for a brief visit — you'll be flagged.
  • If you're unsure whether your layover stays in the transit zone, check with your airline before choosing ATV over Transit Visa.
  • Evidence that your final destination has already granted you a visa is the strongest asset here.

VFS application centres

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Quiz not yet available for this visa type

We're actively building per-visa quizzes. For now, the best way to assess your eligibility for Airport Transit Visa (ATV) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.

Frequently asked

Questions, answered straight

No. India is not on the list of nationalities Denmark requires an airport transit visa from (that list covers Afghanistan, Bangladesh, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Syria). An Indian citizen who stays airside at Copenhagen between two non-Schengen flights needs no visa. If you leave the transit zone, collect baggage or change airports, you need a Schengen short-stay (Type C) visa.

Currently both cost the same €90 (plus VFS/courier fees). ATV has simpler documentation (no need to prove Danish accommodation since you won't leave the airport).

Not for an airside connection: as an Indian citizen you already need no ATV. If you plan to leave the airport, a US or UK visa does not replace the Schengen short-stay visa you would need for that.

If you're stranded in the transit zone, the airline handles rebooking. If you're forced to exit the airport (overnight hotel, etc.), that would technically violate an ATV — contact the Danish border officials at the airport for guidance.

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How we get it done

Your Denmark Airport Transit Visa, from your first message to your passport back.

6 questions about this visa specifically. The first two are open — tap any other to read it.

Refused? Our full service fee comes back.Government and visa-centre fees are the one part nobody can refund.

+Do I actually need a Denmark transit visa?

Often not — and we will tell you so rather than file something you do not need. It depends on your nationality, the airport, whether you stay strictly airside, whether you change terminals, and whether your bags are checked through. Change of terminal or an overnight connection usually tips it into needing one. Send us your itinerary and ticket and we will read the actual routing; this is one of the few questions with a clean yes or no answer once someone looks properly.

+How long can I actually stay on a Denmark Schengen visa?

Airport transit zone only — no exit from terminal allowed. The window rolls: on any given day the authorities count backwards 180 days and add up the days you were inside. It is not 90 days per country and it does not reset when you leave and come back. Entries are single entry, date-specific to your transit. Getting this arithmetic wrong is how people end up overstaying without realising, which follows you into every future application.

+Should I apply to Denmark or to another Schengen country?

You apply to the country you will spend the most nights in. If the nights are equal across several, you apply to the one you enter first. Applying to the "easier" consulate when your itinerary says otherwise is a well-known refusal ground and, if the mismatch looks deliberate, it reads as misrepresentation rather than a mistake. Send us your itinerary and we will tell you which mission is the correct one for your trip — sometimes that is not Denmark.

+How long does a Denmark Airport Transit Visa take, start to finish?

Three things sit between today and your trip: preparing the file properly, waiting for an appointment, and the mission's own processing. Denmark currently states 15 calendar days from when the Embassy receives your complete application. May extend to 30 days if additional documents or interview needed, up to 45 days in exceptional cases referred to the Immigration Service. for the decision itself. We control the first, which is usually days. The middle depends on slot releases. The third is entirely the mission's and no consultant can shorten it — anyone telling you otherwise is selling something they cannot deliver. Tell us your travel date and we will tell you honestly whether it is realistic.

+How much of what I pay for the Denmark visa is actually your fee?

Most of it is not ours. The Denmark government fee (currently €90) goes to the mission and the visa-centre fee goes to VFS — both charged to you at cost, never marked up, and shown as separate lines on one GST invoice in the registered company name. Our service fee is the only part we set, and it is published rather than quoted case by case.

+How does SureshotVisa handle my Denmark Airport Transit Visa, from first message to passport back?

You send what you have on WhatsApp and a licensed consultant says the same working day whether the case is ready. We build the file around your profile, check every document against the others, write the cover letter to match them, and hold the file complete so the first workable appointment can be taken the moment it appears. You attend biometrics; we track the file to the decision (Denmark currently states 15 calendar days from when the Embassy receives your complete application. May extend to 30 days if additional documents or interview needed, up to 45 days in exceptional cases referred to the Immigration Service.). Government and visa-centre fees (€90 for this visa) are charged at cost; our own fee is published, and if the visa is refused that fee comes back in full.

Before you file

A Denmark Airport Transit Visa goes one of two ways.

Filed on a guessed checklist, the government fee is gone on a refusal and the refusal follows every future application. Filed after a licensed consultant has read the papers against each other, the file answers the officer's questions before they are asked. Same Denmark rules, different outcome. How we do that is written once, in full, on the method page rather than repeated here.

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Source & Disclaimer

Data on this page is sourced from the official VFS Global Denmark website and Embassy of Denmark. Last verified 2026-04-16. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.

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