Training Internship Residence Permit

You are enrolled in an educational programme in your home country or in a country in where you have been a legal resident, and

there are specific educational reasons for your internship in Greenland.

The internship must be professionally related to your on-going educational programme.

Your internship host must be qualified to host and train an intern. If an approval of the place of internship is not issued within the field in question, your place of internship must submit a description of the internship’s training programme.

The internship must supplement the educational programme you have begun in your home country or in the country where you have been a legal resident. The internship’s purpose should not be to supplement a Greenlandic educational programme. You must provide documentation of enrollment in your educational programme with a list of the courses you have completed. An authorised translation of the list must be submitted along with your application.

If your internship is without pay, you must provide documentation of your ability to support yourself during the full period of your internship. You must have an amount at your disposal corresponding to DKK 4.200 for each month you will be staying in Greenland.

If your internship is paid, then salary and terms of employment must correspond to the current collective agreements for interns.

You can only work in the position and in the place of internship that you have been granted a permit to work in. If you are offered a new internship, you must apply for a new permit. This also applies if you are offered a new position in the same workplace.

Normally, with a residence permit as an intern you are not allowed to bring your family with you to Greenland.

As an intern in Greenland, you can be granted a residence and work permit valid for up to 12 months with the possibility of an additional extension of 18 months in total.

A residence permit can only be valid until 2 months before the expiry date of your passport.