Which UK cities have VFS Denmark visa centres?

Denmark applications are accepted at the VFS centres in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Any of the three can take your file, so open all three calendars while you are booking rather than stopping at the one nearest home. A city with nothing free today may show dates tomorrow, and the three calendars move independently.

How much is the VFS service fee for a Denmark appointment?

The VFS centre fee is €23 including VAT, charged in pounds, with a €5 courier charge outside London. That sits on top of the €90 visa fee for an adult, roughly £81, with €45 for children aged 6 to 11 and nothing for under 6s. The visa fee is paid online on ApplyVisa before you book, not at the centre.

How long does a Denmark Schengen visa take after the appointment?

Standard processing is 15 calendar days from the day you give biometrics, and some files take up to 45 days when the authorities ask for extra checks or documents. You can apply up to 6 months before travel, so booking early leaves room for the longer outcome without putting your dates at risk.

Why does VFS show no Denmark appointment slots?

Slots are released in batches rather than steadily, and cancellations reopen dates at random, so an empty calendar today can show options tomorrow. Check at different times of day, compare London, Manchester and Edinburgh, and book as early as you can, up to six months before travel. Avoid slot bots, because consulates have voided appointments booked that way.

VFS Denmark Visa Appointment in the UK: How to Book a Slot

TL;DR

Denmark's UK Schengen applications go through VFS Global, but the first step is ApplyVisa: complete the online application and pay the €90 visa fee (about £81) there, allow up to 24 hours, then book at visa.vfsglobal.com in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. The VFS centre fee is €23 including VAT, charged in pounds, plus €5 courier outside London. Standard processing is 15 calendar days after biometrics.

How to get a slot

To book a Denmark Schengen visa appointment in the UK, start on ApplyVisa: the Danish embassy's UK visa page says you "must complete the online application process including payment of the visa fee at ApplyVisa before you can book an appointment with VFS", and asks you to allow up to 24 hours after that before booking. Then create an account at visa.vfsglobal.com, select Denmark as the destination, choose London, Manchester or Edinburgh, and take an available slot from the live calendar. VFS Global runs the UK centres for Denmark, so this is the route for everyone applying here. Nobody can predict when dates appear, so the winning move is an account ready in advance, a finished document file, and an early booking.

Schengen short-stay visa key facts, 2026
Schengen short-stay visa (Type C)	2026
Visa fee (adult)	€90
Visa fee (child 6 to 11)	€45
Visa fee (child under 6)	Free
Maximum stay	90 days in any rolling 180-day period
Standard processing	15 calendar days (up to 45 in some cases)
Travel insurance, minimum cover	€30,000
Passport	Issued within 10 years; valid 3+ months beyond your trip
Member states	29 countries

The fee and these rules are set EU-wide and are identical across all 29 member states. Source: European Commission. Verified 2026-06-24.

Step by step

Apply and pay on ApplyVisa: complete the online application, including the €90 visa fee for an adult (about £81), as the Danish embassy visa page requires before any VFS booking.
Allow up to 24 hours after completing ApplyVisa, as the embassy asks, before you book.
Register at visa.vfsglobal.com, select Denmark and pick your city: London, Manchester or Edinburgh.
Choose a slot from the live calendar. The VFS centre fee is €23 including VAT, charged in pounds, and €5 courier outside London.
Attend in person to give biometrics and submit your documents. Standard processing is 15 calendar days after biometrics, up to 45 in some cases.

VFS Denmark at a glance

Item	Detail
Operator	VFS Global
Before booking	Online application and €90 visa fee on ApplyVisa, then allow up to 24 hours
Booking site	visa.vfsglobal.com
UK centres	London, Manchester, Edinburgh
Centre service fee	€23 including VAT, charged in pounds, plus €5 courier outside London
Visa fee	€90 adult (about £81), paid on ApplyVisa
Standard processing	15 calendar days after biometrics

If VFS Global shows no Denmark slots

Wait times for Denmark appointments are not published and not verifiable, so treat any quoted number with suspicion. The tactics that genuinely help:

Revisit the live calendar at different times of day. Cancellations and fresh batches open dates without warning.
Check every listed city. Manchester and Edinburgh calendars often differ from London's, and any of the three can take your application.
Book up to 6 months ahead of travel, which is as early as the rules allow and worth doing before a Copenhagen city break in peak season.
Ignore slot-bot services. Consulates have voided appointments booked through bots, and a patient routine of manual checks beats them anyway.

What our booking desk does. It first completes ApplyVisa with the customer, visa fee included, because the embassy requires that before any booking, then checks the VFS Global Denmark calendar every working day and books the first slot that appears for a customer whose file is complete. VFS Global releases slots without notice, and nobody outside VFS Global knows when the next batch lands, so an empty calendar today can show dates tomorrow. Any of the three UK centres, London, Manchester and Edinburgh, can take a Denmark application, so the desk opens all three calendars each time rather than stopping at the nearest one. Our appointment availability index lists the earliest Denmark slot we have actually seen and the day we saw it: our own dated reading, never scraped, withdrawn once it is three weeks old. Rather not refresh the calendar yourself? The done-for-you service is a £99 service fee, official fees paid by you, and we book within three working days of your complete file, subject to availability, or the fee comes back (our booking promise).

Before your appointment

The file you carry to the counter decides the outcome, so build it well before the date arrives:

Checklist generator: a tailored document list for a Denmark application
Bundler and Compressor: assemble and size your file
Travel insurance covering at least €30,000 of medical costs, valid across Schengen
Accommodation proof and a flight itinerary that match your stated dates
Bank statements covering the recent months

Adding Sweden or Germany to the same trip? Confirm Denmark is the right country to apply to before you book.

After the slot: the application

The slot is half the job; the file you bring is the other half. Read the overview of getting a Schengen appointment in the UK and the full Denmark visa from the UK guide, including Denmark processing times. Total the real cost with the cost calculator. Prefer it handled? Our done-for-you Schengen service prepares the application, builds the document file and books the VFS appointment for a £99 service fee; you attend biometrics and pay the official fees yourself: the visa fee on ApplyVisa, the centre fee to VFS.

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Common questions

01
How do I book a Denmark visa appointment with VFS in the UK?
First complete the online application on ApplyVisa and pay the visa fee there: the Danish embassy says you must do this before you can book an appointment with VFS, and to allow up to 24 hours afterwards before booking. Then create an account at visa.vfsglobal.com, select Denmark, choose London, Manchester or Edinburgh, and take a slot from the live calendar. You attend the centre in person to give biometrics and hand over your documents. The Danish authorities, not VFS, decide the application.
02
Which UK cities have VFS Denmark visa centres?
Denmark applications are accepted at the VFS centres in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Any of the three can take your file, so open all three calendars while you are booking rather than stopping at the one nearest home. A city with nothing free today may show dates tomorrow, and the three calendars move independently.
03
How much is the VFS service fee for a Denmark appointment?
The VFS centre fee is €23 including VAT, charged in pounds, with a €5 courier charge outside London. That sits on top of the €90 visa fee for an adult, roughly £81, with €45 for children aged 6 to 11 and nothing for under 6s. The visa fee is paid online on ApplyVisa before you book, not at the centre.
04
How long does a Denmark Schengen visa take after the appointment?
Standard processing is 15 calendar days from the day you give biometrics, and some files take up to 45 days when the authorities ask for extra checks or documents. You can apply up to 6 months before travel, so booking early leaves room for the longer outcome without putting your dates at risk.
05
Why does VFS show no Denmark appointment slots?
Slots are released in batches rather than steadily, and cancellations reopen dates at random, so an empty calendar today can show options tomorrow. Check at different times of day, compare London, Manchester and Edinburgh, and book as early as you can, up to six months before travel. Avoid slot bots, because consulates have voided appointments booked that way.

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Required for every application

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If you buy through this link we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes our recommendation: any Schengen-compliant policy with at least €30,000 medical cover is accepted. Full disclosure. Booking our done-for-you service? You still buy your own insurance, and this is the one we point our customers to.

We'll book it and prepare it

Hand us the whole application before the slots vanish

Appointments are scarce in peak season. We get your documents right, complete the forms and book the slot, and we tell you exactly which official fees to pay at the centre, so you walk into biometrics fully prepared.

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£99 service fee

£99 to us now. About £102 at the centre on the day (€90 consulate fee, about £81, plus the VFS Global fee). About £201 all-in.

The official fees are the same whether you apply yourself or with us. What you hand over is the forms, the document pack and the appointment hunt.

The €90 consulate fee (≈£81) and the VFS Global fee: paid by you at the centre, and we tell you the exact amounts
Travel insurance meeting the €30,000 rule: we tell you what qualifies (about £12)
Forms completed, document pack built to the consulate's checklist
Appointment booked for you; you attend biometrics in person

Worth knowing: if an application is refused, the consulate fee and centre fee are not refunded, and non-refundable bookings can go with them. Getting it right the first time is most of what you are paying for.

Prepared and ready to lodge within 24 hours of your complete documents and details, or your service fee back. Full refund if you cancel before we start work (terms). Secure payment by Stripe; your card statement will show FINDMYVISA.

1. Pay securely
Checkout takes about a minute
2. Tell us about your trip
Upload documents on the next page; we confirm within 24 hours
3. We prepare and book
You attend biometrics; we handle everything else

Every fee on this page is checked against the official operator or consulate page, with sources linked in our cost index. Our £99 service fee sits in the lower half of the UK market we surveyed, and we never mark up official fees (see the comparison). Documents are encrypted and deleted 30 days after the decision. No guarantees of approval: the consulate alone decides. Prefer to apply yourself? The Self-Serve pack is £39, and our free guides cover everything.