No Investment Threshold Anywhere: the Only Business Route Is a Panel Reading Your Plan, Inside a Quota of Seventy-Five a Year
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of France on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
147 exceptions recorded across 54 countries · none match France to Denmark · Residency through investment
Denmark does not sell residence. The Aliens Act has no investor permit and names no sum of money to be invested. The one business route is section 9 a(2)(10): an innovative business plan for running or continuing a self-employed business, or for operating through a Danish branch of a foreign business, assessed favourably by an independent expert panel appointed by the Danish Business Authority, and granted only inside an annual quota of seventy-five. The permit is conditional on your own means supporting you and any accompanying family for the first year, and renewal depends on the business actually being established and in all essentials living up to the plan the permit was granted on.
At a glance
- Investment threshold
- None stated in section 9 a of the Aliens Act
Section 9 a(2)(10) asks for an innovative business plan assessed by an expert panel and states no sum at all.
- Annual quota
- 75
Section 9 a(15) of the Aliens Act. An unused quota lapses rather than carrying over.
- Who decides the plan is good enough
- An independent expert panel appointed by the Danish Business Authority
Section 9 a(2)(10), and section 9 a(16) for the same panel at renewal.
- Money condition
- Your own means for the first year of residence
Section 9 a(4) of the Aliens Act, third sentence, which applies this condition to permits under section 9 a(2)(10) specifically.
- Permit length
- Up to two years first, then up to three at a time
Section 16(10) of the Udlændingebekendtgørelsen.
Requirements
- An innovative business plan, assessed favourably by the expert panel appointed by the Danish Business Authority
- A place inside the annual quota of 75
- Your own means to support yourself and any accompanying family for the first year in Denmark
- At renewal, a business that is established and in all essentials lives up to the original plan
Country-level policy
Two things run underneath the Danish residence rules and neither sits in the record of any one route. A residence permit lapses when you give up your home in Denmark and, separately, when you have been outside the country for more than six consecutive months - twelve if the permit allows permanent residence and you have lawfully lived here more than two years, or if you hold permanent residence. That is a continuous-absence rule and not a presence quota: two absences of five months each break neither limb. And almost every amount printed in the Aliens Act is adjusted once a year. The salary thresholds move with the rate-adjustment percentage plus an adjustment percentage tracking wage growth and are rounded to the nearest thousand; the family-reunification security is set at 2024 levels and adjusted every 1 January; the permanent-residence income alternative is set at 2016 levels; the fees are adjusted and rounded to the nearest five kroner. The figure a reader takes from the consolidated text is the figure as it stood when the text was consolidated.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of France
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«hvis innovative forretningsplan med henblik på at drive eller videreføre en selvstændig erhvervsvirksomhed eller udøve virksomhed gennem en dansk filial af en udenlandsk selvstændig erhvervsvirksomhed er positivt vurderet af et uafhængigt ekspertpanel nedsat af Erhvervsstyrelsen, og som er omfattet af en kvote, jf. stk. 15,»Known to be out of date. Six Acts amending the Aliens Act were published after this consolidation was signed: lov nr. 1344 af 25. november 2025, lov nr. 1648 af 16. december 2025, lov nr. 1750 af 29. december 2025, lov nr. 725 og 726 af 1. september 2026 and lov nr. 765 og 766 af 8. september 2026. None of them was read for this record. The consolidation also prints, in its own opening pages, a list of amendments it does not incorporate because the minister has not set the date they take effect.
The whole business route, with no amount in it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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«Opholdstilladelse efter stk. 2, nr. 10, kan gives inden for en årlig kvote på 75.»Known to be out of date. Six Acts amending the Aliens Act were published after this consolidation was signed: lov nr. 1344 af 25. november 2025, lov nr. 1648 af 16. december 2025, lov nr. 1750 af 29. december 2025, lov nr. 725 og 726 af 1. september 2026 and lov nr. 765 og 766 af 8. september 2026. None of them was read for this record. The consolidation also prints, in its own opening pages, a list of amendments it does not incorporate because the minister has not set the date they take effect.
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The Danish state's common legal information system, run by Civilstyrelsen under the Ministry of Justice. It serves every Act, consolidated Act, ministerial regulation, circular and guidance document at a stable ELI address of the form https://www.retsinformation.dk/{pubMedia}/{year}/{number}, where pubMedia is lta for Lovtidende A, retsinfo for documents published on the service itself and mt for Ministerialtidende. Each document is offered in three representations off that address: the bare address, which is a JavaScript shell; /pdf, which is the publisher's own typeset PDF with a real text layer; and /dan/xml, which is the LexDania source. A consolidated Act prints on its first page the consolidation it supersedes, every amending Act folded into it, and a paragraph-by-paragraph list of the amendments it does NOT incorporate because the minister has not yet set their commencement date. The XML carries a metadata block with the accession number, the signature date, a Status field reading Valid or Historic, and a Change block naming each amending instrument.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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«Opholdstilladelse efter stk. 2 og 3 skal betinges af, at udlændingen og personer, der meddeles opholdstilladelse som følge af familiemæssig tilknytning til udlændingen, ikke modtager hjælp efter lov om aktiv socialpolitik.»Known to be out of date. Six Acts amending the Aliens Act were published after this consolidation was signed: lov nr. 1344 af 25. november 2025, lov nr. 1648 af 16. december 2025, lov nr. 1750 af 29. december 2025, lov nr. 725 og 726 af 1. september 2026 and lov nr. 765 og 766 af 8. september 2026. None of them was read for this record. The consolidation also prints, in its own opening pages, a list of amendments it does not incorporate because the minister has not set the date they take effect.
The general self-support condition; the first-year means condition for this route sits in the same subsection.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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«Der kan gives opholdstilladelse til en udlænding på grundlag af beskæftigelse eller selvstændig erhvervsvirksomhed, jf. stk. 2 og 3.»Known to be out of date. Six Acts amending the Aliens Act were published after this consolidation was signed: lov nr. 1344 af 25. november 2025, lov nr. 1648 af 16. december 2025, lov nr. 1750 af 29. december 2025, lov nr. 725 og 726 af 1. september 2026 and lov nr. 765 og 766 af 8. september 2026. None of them was read for this record. The consolidation also prints, in its own opening pages, a list of amendments it does not incorporate because the minister has not set the date they take effect.
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The Danish state's common legal information system, run by Civilstyrelsen under the Ministry of Justice. It serves every Act, consolidated Act, ministerial regulation, circular and guidance document at a stable ELI address of the form https://www.retsinformation.dk/{pubMedia}/{year}/{number}, where pubMedia is lta for Lovtidende A, retsinfo for documents published on the service itself and mt for Ministerialtidende. Each document is offered in three representations off that address: the bare address, which is a JavaScript shell; /pdf, which is the publisher's own typeset PDF with a real text layer; and /dan/xml, which is the LexDania source. A consolidated Act prints on its first page the consolidation it supersedes, every amending Act folded into it, and a paragraph-by-paragraph list of the amendments it does NOT incorporate because the minister has not yet set their commencement date. The XML carries a metadata block with the accession number, the signature date, a Status field reading Valid or Historic, and a Change block naming each amending instrument.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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Practical notes
The criteria a business plan has to meet are not in the Act. Section 9 a(31) lets the business minister set them after negotiating with the immigration minister, and no such regulation was read.
The claim that no investment threshold exists is bounded by section 9 a of the consolidated Aliens Act of 25 September 2025, read in full, and by the permit-granting sections around it.
- consolidatesUdlændingeloven, lovbekendtgørelse nr. 1183 af 25. september 2025
Retsinformation, Civilstyrelsen · consolidated to 2025-09-25
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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- consolidatesUdlændingebekendtgørelsen, bekendtgørelse nr. 1354 af 17. november 2025
Retsinformation, Civilstyrelsen
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.
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