How We Can Apply For A Denmark Green Card

How We Can Apply For A Denmark Green Card
By Ajay S Sharma

Danish Green Card: Denmark's point based Immigration scheme

The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Denmark welcome skilled professionals against Points based immigration systems. Denmark Green card holders get a three-year residence permit for the purpose of seeking work, and subsequently living and working, in Denmark. A residence and work permit under the Green card scheme is issued on the basis of an individual evaluation using an immigration point system designed to assess the likelihood that the applicant will be able to find qualified work in Denmark. Points are given for educational level, language skills, work experience, adaptability, and age. Program offers bonus points to the immigrant applicants who have worked in EU or have earned European educational qualification. Only applicants whose occupations are in shortage in Denmark and are mentioned in the positive list can apply for Danish Green Card.

Immigration Denmark Green Card- Accompanying spouse and children

If you hold a permit under the Denmark Green card scheme, your spouse, registered partner or cohabiting partner, as well as any children under the age of 18 who are living at home with you, are also eligible for residence permits. Your family members must be able to support themselves and you must live together in Denmark at the same address. Your spouse, registered partner or cohabiting partner is allowed to work full-time for the entire period his or her permit is valid.

Immigration Denmark Green card - Duration

A residence permit under the Green card scheme can be granted for up to three years with a possibility for extension of up to four years. Your residence permit can only be granted or extended up to three months before your passport expires. This means that if your passport expires in 12 months, you can only be granted a permit for nine months, or your permit can only be extended by nine months.

Immigration- Denmark Green Card Extension

Your residence permit can be extended by four years if you have worked for the past 12 months for a minimum of ten hours per week. Your residence permit can be extended by one year if you have lost your job through no fault of your own (e.g. due to cutbacks) no more than three months before applying for an extension, and if prior to this, you worked for 12 months for a minimum of ten hours per week.

Denmark Green Card- processing delays

Denmark green card carries a processing delay of 30-60 days from the date of filing the complete application with all required documents. An application for a Denmark Green card residence permit is considered complete if the Immigration Service does not need to request CIRIUS - a body under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation - to evaluate the applicant's educational level. CIRIUS is normally requested to evaluate an application if an applicant who attended a foreign educational institution has not included a CIRIUS evaluation as part of the application. Once CIRIUS has provided its evaluation, the application will be considered complete and processed within one month. The Immigration Service will inform applicants whose applications have been sent to CIRIUS for review.

Denmark Green Card - Required documents

* Translation: ANY document that is in language other than English and forms part of the application should be and is requited to be translated by a locally state or city authorized translator. He will translate and attest the translations to be true and also provide his registration certification copy as an authorized translator.

* A copy of passport of all family members who are part of the application is required. The copy should include COVER of the passport and ALL pages of the passport.

* Documentation of educational level (diploma, examination certificate): Please note that documents provided should include all degrees/diplomas and mark sheets. They are required ONLY for post senior secondary qualifications, which will means graduation, post graduation and doctorate. In addition, it is required that applicant provides the Full address, email and phone number of the educational institution. The applicant should also provide name, phone and email ID of two officials of the Educational institution.

* Documentation of work experience (statement from previous employer); this will be reference letters from employers that contain all relevant details like date of joining and relieving, designation(s), duties and responsibilities- on the lines it is required for Australia and Canada.

* Documentation of language skills (diploma, test results and/or statement from previous employer).

* Documentation that you can support yourself during your first year in Denmark. This can be provided in the form of a bank statement in your and if married, in spousal name.

The currency of Denmark is Danish Krone (Dkk) and 1 Dkk is around INR 9.20.The form of government is a parliamentary democracy with a royal head of state. Denmark is a developed industrialized country. Denmark is a member of the European Union. The population stands at c. 5,511 million and 85% of the population lives in towns.

This article has been contributed by Ajay Sharma, principal Immigration consultant of ABHINAV.

ABHINAV is among the oldest and most trusted Immigration consulting companies in India and in business since 1994. Over the years, ABHINAV has guided thousands of prospective immigrants and families in achieving their relocation dreams.

For more information on immigrating to Denmark as a skilled worker, please see the Denmark section of our website.

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Know Why IELTS Test is Essential For Applicants Seeking Immigration Or to Study Abroad?

Know Why IELTS Test is Essential For Applicants Seeking Immigration Or to Study Abroad?
By Ajay S Sharma

Speak to a person contemplating immigration or study overseas and ask them to point out one required step in the entire screening process that they would like to skip. Most of them are bound to answer that they would prefer to escape the IELTS test, if possible. This is because IELTS test not only adds on additional expenses to their immigration procedure but also requires them to devote a good amount of time for the preparation of the test. In immigration to certain destinations and under some specific programs, like Australia General skilled migration program, the immigration programs require that both the principal applicant and their spouse appear for the IELTS test as well. While this makes the Immigration process more expensive and tougher, what applicants do not realize is the fact that IELTS test is only for their benefit. Read further and find out how?

Is it unfair?

There are applicants who excel in the occupational field of their specialisation and find it unfair that the decision on their immigration application is not dependent on their occupational excellence alone but also on their language skills. This is based on the observation that others who might have not achieved the same level of occupational excellence as theirs but have fluency in the English language are granted the immigration visa easily.

Students planning to study overseas have the same concerns. In their opinion, the deciding factor for course and university selection should be the marks scored by them at their school or university level and IELTS puts them at a disadvantage to others who have better language skills.

Importance of IELTS test

So why has the IELTS test become such an integral part of the immigration applications for almost all Immigration destinations and programs? And why are the applicants made to undergo the strenuous IELTS preparation process and spend huge amount of funds in undergoing these tests? More importantly, what we need to think about is, why is it that no options are provided for applicants who are unable to qualify through this test?

Earlier system of assessing English language skills

The reason is that English language skills have always been a key selection criterion under the points based system, from the very start. In the past the Immigration officers used to take one-to-one interview to judge the English language skills of the applicant and decide how many points they would like to credit to the applicant.

But this kind of system created animosities and unfair situations, for both Visa processing office and immigration applicants. There are several reasons why this system of evaluation of language skills of the applicants is replaced by the IELTS test.

Firstly, the immigration processing delays soared high as the visa officers must take all interviews on an individual basis to take the decision about each of the applicant. When seen in context of queues of thousands of applicants, this meant years of additional processing delays. Secondly, this made the language skills assessment highly subjective as it was based on understanding of the visa officer conducting the interview.

Also, in conducting such one to one interviews, the Immigrant applicant could not be tested for all key areas of language proficiency, that includes Understanding, Reading, speaking and listening.

Introduction of IELTS

Need was therefore felt for an objective test that was internationally acceptable, standardised benchmark and assessment tool. Standardisation was very important so as to provide equal opportunity to all applicants. Thus, IELTS became an integral part of the immigration process and applications, especially for skilled professionals, independent immigration, General skilled Migrant and in some cases Green card visa applications as well. IELTS test is thereby based on evaluating applicant's skills in all four components of the language, including speaking, listening, understanding and reading.

IELTS is thereby also made an important requirement for students who opt to study overseas to majority of popular destinations, like Canada, Australia, UK, USA and New Zealand. Language is clearly one key area that can and does create difficult situations, especially when applicants do not have English as their primary language and have never had exposure to international language accents.

For students who are not very fluent in the language, it can literally turn out to be a nightmare as they land in a course and university where they cannot understand the instructions and are unable to communicate with teachers and rest of the peer group. Add to that, the expenses of staying away from home along with expensive overseas education.

The IELTS test thereby gives an opportunity to all such immigrants to avert any such difficult situation and check on their language skill levels, before they select the course and university for studying abroad. Most of the international educational institutions offer Language development courses for international students, who are not very fluent with the language. The students can first take such foundation and language developments courses for specified period and then they are permitted to take admission into the course of their choice.

So, IELTS test is an objective English language assessment tool that is internationally acceptable by Government and immigration educational institutions agencies alike. It has therefore become an essential part of the Immigration visa process and for study overseas applicants. Hence, an applicant is advised to prepare well, if they wish to earn some points by scoring well in various test modules. Seeking advice from an immigration expert is a wise decision to give a direction to your IELTS preparation as well as your immigration process, in general.

Ajay Sharma is an immigration expert who provides his valuable advice to people seeking immigration in countries like Canada, Denmark, USA, Australia and many others. With years of experience under his belt, he is the principal immigration consultant of http://www.abhinav.com, which is in business since 1994. Over the years, Abhinav has continually stood the test of time and has helped its clients in accomplishing their relocation dreams to foreign lands, successfully and smoothly.

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