"With the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti (DF) astutely leveraging its status as governmental support party over the past couple of years, Denmark's immigration rules were decisively stiffened to a point where immigration from outside the EU became incredibly difficult. But the current government took office with a pledge to ease up on the strict regulations and are now making an attempt to honour those promises. New immigration laws are scheduled to be implemented on May 15 for family reunification cases and on June 1 for cases involving permanent residence." (Quoted from article)