If the Appeals Board affirms the Immigration Service’s denial of an application, the applicant must leave Denmark within seven days. In certain cases, an individual will be expected to depart immediately. Generally, accommodations are made to allow the asylum seeker time to prepare for departure within a set time period. If the applicant does not leave voluntarily, the National Aliens Division will deport him or her. Applicants who do not leave voluntarily risk expulsion and an entry ban, which will prohibit the individual from entering Denmark and all European Union countries for at least two years. In cases of repeat offenders, an entry ban may be extended for up to five years.563 If the police unsuccessfully attempt to deport a rejected asylum seeker for a period of at least 18 months, the asylum seeker cooperates with police, and it does not appear that deportation efforts will be successful as travel documents cannot be obtained, Denmark will issue the asylum seeker a 12-month residence permit. This permit may be renewed for as long as the asylum seeker is unable to leave Denmark by his or her own free will.564 6. Protection under the Statelessness Conventions Denmark is a party to the 1954 Stateless Persons and the 1961 Statelessness Conventions.565 Danish law provides for citizenship for some stateless persons, including children born in Denmark who would otherwise be stateless, as well as stateless persons who have no other remedy for statelessness and who have lived in Denmark for 8 years.566 In 2011, it was disclosed that the Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs had improperly refused citizenship applications by Palestinians born in Denmark who would be stateless if not granted Danish citizenship, and steps were taken to rectify this situation.567 7. Links • • • • Danish Immigration Service: http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/ Danish Refugee Council: http://www.drc.dk/home/ Danish Red Cross: www.drk.dk/dansk+rode+kors+-+forside Refugees Welcome: http://refugeeswelcome.dk/ 563 New to Denmark [Danish Immigration Service], “Application for Asylum.” New to Denmark [Danish Immigration Service], “Hindrances to Deportation,” accessed November 19, 2014, http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/asylum/application_for_asylum/ Hindrances_to_deportation.htm. 565 UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;” UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.” 566 EUDO Observatory on Citizenship, “Denmark: Modes of Protection against Statelessness,” accessed November 19, 2014, http://eudo-citizenship.eu/databases/protection-against-statelessness?p=&a pplication=modesProtectionStatelessness&search=1&modeby=country&country=Denmark. 567 Wendy Zeldin, “Denmark: Righting of Mistakes in Denial of Citizenship to Eligible Stateless Persons,” Global Legal Monitor, The Law Library of Congress, Fenruary 2011, http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/ servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402536_text; Laura Bingham, “Something Rotten in Denmark,” Open Society Foundations (OSF), March 18, 2011, http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/ something-rotten-denmark. 564 118 Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees