Filing your E-2 visa at the U.S. Embassy Copenhagen

Steps four and five are easy to run together and should not be. The appointment request puts you in the queue; the packet is what unlocks the actual booking.

The packet is submitted as PDFs, and no individual file may exceed seven megabytes. The cap is per file across a six-tab submission, not a ceiling on the whole case.

The distinction matters more than the number. Read as a package total, 7 MB would sit alongside Frankfurt’s 5 MB among the tightest caps anywhere, and an applicant who reads it that way will compress evidence badly and needlessly. Read correctly — seven megabytes for each of six tabs — it is unremarkable.

Derivative family members do not need to submit the DS-156E, which is a small saving people routinely miss.

Tab E asks for proof that nationals of the treaty country own at least 50 percent of the company — passport biographic data pages, and the percentage each individual holds of the parent company. The percentages are the part applicants under-document.

Copenhagen publishes a suggested list rather than a closed one, and it is a good description of what proving an at-risk investment actually looks like:

A company registration letter runs for 12, 36 or 60 months, decided by the adjudicating consular officer. The factors include the number of employees, how long the company has operated, its real estate holdings and its history of compliance.

This makes the first application from a business worth more effort than the visa alone justifies. A five-year letter means later applicants from the same company file a far shorter packet; a twelve-month letter means doing this again next year.

We score Copenhagen a 2 for third-country nationals, comparatively open for a European post. The score describes willingness to schedule an appointment, not eligibility for approval.

Because the packet is read before booking, a third-country applicant commits their evidence here before holding any appointment date.

There is no single total. The MRV fee is fixed, published and paid before the packet is emailed. Preparation costs vary with the case, and submission is electronic so there is no printing or courier expense.

Check the current published MRV fee before you pay.

Two periods sit end to end: the E-Visa Unit’s review of your packet, which happens before you can book, and appointment availability, which the Department of State publishes by post.

The published wait therefore covers only the second half. Any post-interview administrative processing sits on top of both, and it is not uniform across applicants.

The E-2 is a nonimmigrant treaty investor visa open to nationals of countries holding a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States, and Denmark is one of those treaty countries. You must have invested, or be actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of your own at-risk capital in a real and operating U.S. business that you will direct and develop.

The enterprise must be at least 50 percent owned by persons holding the treaty nationality, or controlled by a qualifying national — which is exactly what Tab E exists to prove, down to the percentage each owner holds.