I have lost access to my account. What do I do?
In the login window, you should always try to click on “Forgotten your password?” and choose a new password, to check if this solves the problem. If your account does not exist anymore, you will get a message which says that there is no account registered with this email address.
There might be different reasons why you have lost access to your account.
- If you have not been logged into your account for over two years, we have deleted it.
- If you have forgotten the password to the account and you no longer have access to the email address you used to create your account, you will not be able to access your account. In that case, you must create a new account.
Even if you have lost access to your account, any applications and information you submitted earlier will still be in our systems.
If you who have sent in an application
If you have booked an appointment, your booking is still valid. When you booked the appointment, you received an email with a confirmation of the time and date. You can search for this email in your email account. If you cannot find this email, please check the spam filter.
If you encounter problems and you are unable to find the details of your appointment, please contact the meeting point for your appointment: the police, the Service Centre for Foreign Workers (SUA), the embassy or the VFS Application Centre.
If you have already handed in your application documents, we will process your application as normal, and you will not need to do anything more with your user account. If you have Digipost (external website), you will receive the decision there. Otherwise, you will receive it by regular post.
If you have submitted an application, but not yet booked an appointment, you have two choices. You can either contact the meeting point which you selected in your application and ask for an appointment or you can create a new user account and send in a new application. If you paid a fee for your first application, you may contact the meeting point to request a refund.
If you are going to send in a new application
If you are going to fill in and submit a new application, you can either use a different account if you have access to one or you can create a new account.
If you have received a response to your application and you are going to book an appointment with the police for the purpose of taking a photo for your residence card, you must use the same account that you used when you registered your application from. If you no longer have access to this account, you must contact the police to make an appointment