Non-EU/EEA citizens who hold a pink residence card must destroy the card upon leaving Denmark. The card should be destroyed if you are leaving Denmark permanently and if the card is no longer valid. Please make sure to destroy the card completely. The card should be destroyed immediately upon leaving Denmark.

When you move back to your home country, you must deregister from the national register (Det Centrale Personregister or CPR) before you leave Denmark. You do this online at Lifeindenmark.dk 

No sooner than one month before your departure you need to deregister with your municipality.

When you deregister, your CPR number will no longer be active and you cannot use your yellow health insurance card.  You should destroy your health insurance card immediately upon leaving Denmark. Or you can return it to the municipality, who will destroy it for you.

Read more at Lifeindenmark.dk

If you have a car registered in Denmark, you can take it to your new country of residence. However, you need to de-register the vehicle in Denmark.

In certain cases, you may be entitled to a refund of the registration fee. It is also possible to buy a new car with border plates (no tax or VAT).

Read more at the skat.dk website.

It is a good idea to order an extra code card before you leave Denmark. This way you can still log on to your Danish online selfservice facilities and access e-Boks to read important mail after you have left Denmark.

You keep your NemID if you meet the following conditions:

1. When you leave Denmark, remember to inform NemID about your new address. You do this on the NemID homepage. NemID needs your current address to send you new code cards. If you use the NemID app, you still need the physical key card if you need to re-activate your app on a new unit or if your phone runs out of power.  
2. NemID must be renewed every 3 years. 3 months before your NemID is closed, you will receive a reminder in the NemID app or by logging on to the NemID website. You are advised to keep track of the time to make sure that you see the reminder. You must accept the reminder to keep your NemID for an additional 3 years.

Order an extra code card

Before you leave Denmark, you must notify the tax authorities. Please note there are some important deadlines to meet when filing your tax return. Read more about the procedure under Taxation and on the skat.dk website

When you leave Denmark you can either choose to keep your Danish bank account or close it. If you do not plan to return to Denmark, you should close the account. Your account will be closed automatically if the account is not used for a longer period (usually 2 years) and it will require extensive paper work to take out the money in your account after it has been closed automatically.  

You are recommended to talk to your bank to hear which option is best for you.

Regardless of where you are going, you must always inform your Danish bank of your new address abroad.

Holiday pay

In case of termination of employment, days of holiday which have not been taken are disbursed to the international academic employee at Aarhus University. As far as possible, employees on fixed-term contracts, for example PhD fellows, research assistants, etc., must take a proportionate amount of accrued holiday before the term of employment ends.

Outstanding holiday pay

You can have all your earned holiday allowance paid out whether or not you take holidays. Before your holiday pay can be paid out, your remaining holiday must be settled by the university and you must receive a letter from Feriepengeinfo in your eBoks.

Conditions to have your holiday pay paid out

The conditions to have your holiday pay paid out are that:

• You must leave Denmark permanently and deregister from the National Registry. Read more about how to deregister under Deregister the Civil Registration Number.

• You need to request your holiday pay at www.lifeindenmark.dk within 6 months after having left the country.

If you haven’t agreed on a holiday settlement yet

If you need to work out how much holiday pay you are owed, you should:

• Contact Aarhus University HR, Payroll, your personal payroll officer. You find your payroll officer on the Staff Portal

• Send your personal payroll officer an e-mail explaining that you are leaving Denmark permanently.

Then your holiday pay will be paid out directly to you in connection with your holiday settlement.

If you have not received a letter from Feriepengeinfo, or if you have questions regarding your holiday pay, please contact Aarhus University HR, Payroll.

Read more about holiday pay and holiday rules on the Staff Portal.

Pension when leaving Denmark

Aarhus University recommends you to contact your pension fund for information and guidance on what to do about your pension when leaving Denmark.

Find the contact details for the different pension funds

When you leave Denmark to live in another EU country, some EU countries require documentation that you have been covered by social security in Denmark in order to be covered by social security in their country.

The E104 form proves that you were covered by Danish national healthcare, and will shorten any waiting period to join the host country's healthcare. Only people who are leaving Denmark and have deregistered with the Citizen's Service can obtain the form. You get the form by contacting the public authorities in your home country, who should send the form E104 to Udbetaling Danmark. Udbetaling Danmark is the authority who administers questions relating to social security and international health insurance in Denmark. They will then send the E104 form to the public authorities in the home country. 

For more information about the E104 form, please contact Udbetaling Danmark, tel.: 7012 8081.

Upon leaving Denmark, you may transfer your periods of employment and unemployment insurance from Denmark to another EU/EEA country. Read more under Unemployment insurance