Bardia Boveyri and his family can stay in Denmark after immigration authorities approved a job offer for his mother. The decision reverses an order that would have returned them to Iran.
Avisen Danmark reports that the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration, known as SIRI, has approved a position offered to his mother, Mehrnoosh Emadi. She, Bardia and his younger brother Barad have therefore been granted residence permits.
According to the outlet, Bardia Boveyri said the family received the decision on Tuesday. He attends Odense Katedralskole in Odense and can now graduate next summer with his class. He described the months of uncertainty as an enormous pressure to live with.
A job in Kolding at the center of the case
The job is as a social and health care assistant at a newly opened private care home in Kolding. As reported by Avisen Danmark, the offer came late in the process, but the home could not initially meet the authorities’ requirements for training trainees. That obstacle blocked approval until now.
The family came to Denmark four years ago, at a time when the country was recruiting nurses. Emadi had extensive experience as a nurse in Iran and passed several courses, but did not secure nursing work in the Danish healthcare system before the family’s residence permit expired. Early in 2026, they were told to leave Denmark by May 5.
That letter arrived shortly after the death of Bardia’s father, Farid. Emadi told Avisen Danmark she had just buried her husband when she was informed she had to return to Iran. She said her husband was trained as an agricultural engineer and also held a law degree.
Classmates gathered nearly 24,000 signatures
After the expulsion notice, Bardia’s class at Odense Katedralskole took up the case. They launched a petition that has collected close to 24,000 signatures, contacted Fyens Stiftstidende and other media, and traveled together to Christiansborg to meet the now former minister for immigration and integration, Rasmus Stoklund of the Social Democrats.
Fyens Stiftstidende carried the same reporting and points to SIRI’s approval of the mother’s job as the reason the family can remain in the country. Bardia Boveyri said he could not put into words how grateful he was for the support the family received.
SIRI’s public guidance states that a residence and work permit based on a job in Denmark can allow family members to accompany the worker. In this case, the immediate trigger was the agency’s approval of Emadi’s position, not a court ruling or a political decision. The earlier expulsion order had rested on her failure to obtain qualifying employment.
