Labour Market Attachment

You work in Denmark, but you have lost your Danish residence permit based on family reunification, as a refugee or as an accompanying family member.

You can apply for a new residence permit based on the Labour Market Attachment Scheme, if you have been working in Denmark for at least 2 years with the same employer, with your salary and terms of employment corresponding to the Danish standards, and if you have been denied an extension of your permit, or if your permit has been revoked.

The scheme applies to you, if you have a residence permit as a refugee, a reunified family member, or if you are an accompanying family member to a foreign national, who has a residence permit under the following schemes:

You can also apply if your right of residence under EU rules has been found to have expired or if you have a residence permit that has been granted under the special law for persons displaced from Ukraine and your permit has been revoked or refused an extension.

You can be granted a residence and work permit based on skilled and unskilled work.

Please note that if you are self-employed, you cannot use this as a basis for your residence permit under this scheme.

You must have had legal, and continual and unsupported employment with the same employer for at least 2 years at the time of application. Your salary and terms of employment must have corresponded to the Danish standards.

The company must not have received state/municipal wage subsidies for employing you.

You must have a valid contract, and your salary and terms of employment must correspond to the Danish standards.

You must have had legal, and continual and unsupported employment with the same employer for at least 2 years at the time of application. Your salary and terms of employment must have corresponded to the Danish standards.

As a rule, this also means that you must have been employed full time (which normally corresponds to 37 hours per week) within the last 2 years prior to submitting the application.

You must submit your application no later than 7 days after you have received the final decision to have your residence permit revoked or refused an extension

Your previous residence permit must not have been revoked or an extension refused due to you giving wrongful information concerning conditions relevant to the residence permit.

You are only allowed to work in the job, for which you have been granted a permit.

If you change your job, your permit based on labour market attachment will be revoked. If you wish to remain in Denmark, you must apply for a new permit based on the Job Change within the same Professional Field Scheme or based on one of the other existing schemes, e.g. the Pay Limit Scheme.

If you are offered sideline employment, you must apply for a specific work permit for this.

A permit can be granted to your spouse, registered or cohabiting partner as well as children under the age of 18 living at home.

You can be granted a residence and work permit for up to 2 years at a time and after 2 years for up to 4 years at a time. If your employment is shorter than 2 years, you cannot be granted a permit for longer than the duration of your employment contract.

you will automatically be granted a job seeking period of 3 months fra the termination of your employment.