The Positive List | Denmark Immigration

The positive list is a decesive factor for Denmark Immigration. Below is the updated list of all job titles on the Positive List. This list was updated on 18-06-2010

This is divided into professional fields

Academic work
•Accountant
Requirement: Master's degree

•Assistant professor, social sciences
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Associate professor, natural science and technology
Requirement: Master's degree

•Associate professor, social sciences
Requirement: Master's degree

•Building engineer
Requirement: Master's degree

•Business controller
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Chemist
Requirement: Master's degree

•Construction engineer
Requirement: Master's degree

•Consulting physician
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Dentist
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Electric engineer
Requirement: Medium-cycle higher education

•Financial controller
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Fresh water biologist
Requirement: Master's degree

•General practitioner
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Geologist
Requirement: Master's degree

•Geophysicist
Requirement: Master's degree

•Hospital doctor
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Hospital physicist
Requirement: Master's degree

•Lawyer
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Legal assistant
Requirement: Master's degree

•Mechanical engineer
Requirement: Medium-cycle higher education

•Medical consultant
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Medical specialist
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation

•Music teacher
Requirement: Master's degree

•Physical geographer
Requirement: Master's degree

•Secondary school teacher, natural sciences physical education
Requirement: Master's degree + Danish authorisation


IT and Telecommunication
•Database developer
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education

•IT consultant
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education

•IT project manager
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education

•Network consultant
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education

•Software developer
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education

•System developer
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' IT education
Management
•Accounting manager
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Deputy head of institution
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Head of department
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Head of institution
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Head of institution department
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Production manager
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Sales manager
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•School department head
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Social and health department head
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level
Educational, social and religious work

•Remedial teacher
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree

•Social educator
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree

•Social educator of children, young people and adults with special needs
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree

•Social worker
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree
Sales, purchases and marketing

•Account manager
Requirement: Documentation of at least three years' education at university level

•Product specialist
Requirement: Industry relevant professional Bachelor's degree


Health, Healthcare and Personal Care
•Anaesthetic nurse
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Bioanalyst
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Chiropractor
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Head physiotherapist
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Head midwife
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Head nurse
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Head radiographer
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Head bioanalyst
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Health visitor, Visiting nurse
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Midwife
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Nurse
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Physiotherapist
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Operating theatre nurse
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Optician
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Radiographer
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Surgical appliance maker
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

Education and Tuition
•Continuation school teacher
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

•Primary and lower secondary school teacher
Requirement: Professional Bachelor's degree + Danish authorisation

The Positive List

The Positive List is a list of the occupations and fields presently experiencing a deficiency of qualified experts. Persons who have been offered a post in one of these professions or fields have mostly easy access to the Danish labour market. These professions and fields are planned on the Positive List. The scheme moreover applies to persons who have applied for asylum in Denmark.

Nordic citizens are free to reside, study and work in Denmark. EU/EEA citizen or Swiss citizen looking for residence in Denmark based on the EU rules on liberty of movement may be cause to undergo special regulations.
If you previously hold a Danish residence permit based on family reunification or refuge, or hold a residence permit on compassionate grounds, you do not require a work permit in order to work in Denmark.

It is your own task to get a work permit if you are required to. If you work unlawfully in Denmark, you risk exile, and you and your employer risk fine or locking up.