Avisen Danmark’s travel editor has described paying 894 kroner for a new Danish passport, with a photo fee and a second visit to Borgerservice on top.
In a column published on August 15, 2026, travel editor Mette Pørtner Jensen wrote in Avisen Danmark that her new passport ended up costing more than 1,000 kroner. She writes that her old passport was close to its expiry date, and that her work requires her to be ready to travel.
According to the column, the passport itself costs 894 kroner for adults who are neither children nor pensioners. Roughly two thirds of that price consists of fees that go to the state treasury, she writes. A photo taken by a Borgerservice employee added about 150 kroner.
The official rates
Borger.dk lists the 2026 adult fee as 894 kroner, including a 32-kroner charge for digital fingerprints. Children pay between 150 and 182 kroner, and pensioners 382 kroner. The portal notes that photo costs are separate, and that applications are submitted through municipal Borgerservice offices.
Frederiksberg Kommune states in its 2026 guidance that a passport photo taken locally costs 130 kroner. Pasautomaten.dk, which says its figures come from Borger.dk and Politi.dk, puts typical photo prices at around 119 kroner.
Both Frederiksberg Kommune and Kolding Kommune state that the fee is doubled if an applicant cannot present the previously issued passport, or presents it damaged. The column notes that the stated argument is to make people take better care of their passports and avoid resale.
The Danish Immigration Service announced in 2021 that passport fees rose for all age groups on February 1 that year. The same notice stated that the fee would be doubled when the previous passport was lost or destroyed, and described the change as politically agreed.
A written answer to the Folketing in 2021 showed the adult fee being lifted from 628 kroner to 890 kroner, with later adjustments. Parliamentary documents from the same year estimated that the doubling would yield about 10.3 million kroner in extra revenue in 2021, rising to 11.3 million kroner annually from 2022.
The column also notes that collecting the finished passport requires a second personal visit to Borgerservice. Jensen describes paying at the office’s payment machine, and writes that the amount took a noticeable share of her savings for unforeseen expenses.
Published figures differ slightly. Consumer sites such as Detkoster.dk and Pasautomaten.dk list the adult fee at 893 kroner, while Borger.dk and several municipalities cite 894 kroner as the inclusive adult rate. The columnist’s description of Denmark as one of the most expensive countries for passport issuance is her own assessment, and is not stated by the official sources.
