Student case study · Denmark
Ishan, from Lalitpur to Odense
MSc Software Engineering, September 2025 intake
His bank statements were from three different dates. SIRI wants them from one. Fixed before lodging, approved in 5 weeks.
- Money file
- Second check
- After bachelor's
- Starting point
- BCA, CGPA 3.12
- English
- IELTS Academic 6.5
- Study gap
- None
- Paid for by
- Parents' savings in two banks and a fixed deposit
- First call to visa
- 196 days
Where Ishan started
Ishan's family kept their savings in two banks and a fixed deposit. He'd collected a statement from each, on different days, as he went past each branch.
What we found
His admission and English were fine. On our second officer's check, one rule stood out: SIRI asks that if you submit more than one bank statement, they're all from the same date. His were from three different days.
We asked all three institutions for statements dated the same day and checked that the total met DKK 7,426 a month for his study period. It cost a week. A refusal would have cost the DKK 3,060 fee and the September start.
Step by step, with dates
10 Dec 2024
First counselling.
20 Feb 2025
Applications to 3 master's programmes.
16 Apr 2025
Admitted in Odense.
2 May 2025
Second check finds statements from three different dates.
9 May 2025
New statements, all dated 8 May; NOC; first semester paid.
12 May 2025
ST1 submitted; biometrics on 20 May.
24 Jun 2025
Permit granted, 196 days after the first call.
26 Aug 2025
Flies to Copenhagen, then the train to Odense.
The result
Ishan is in his second year in Odense, works in a warehouse 20 hours a week in term, and spent the summer full-time at a software company's support desk.
In Ishan's words
I thought a statement was a statement. One small rule could have cost me the whole year.
If your profile looks like this
- 1
Get every bank statement dated the same day if you show more than one. See Denmark money rules.
- 2
Have someone who didn't build your file check it. That's why every file we lodge gets a second officer's review.
- 3
See IT courses abroad for how Denmark compares for software.
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