Published 01-01-2020 - Last updated: 10-01-2020

New positive list on 1 January 2020

SIRI has on 1. january 2020 published the new positive list, valid until 30 June 2020. If you apply for residence and work permit according to the positive list, then make sure that your job is on the new list.

The Danish agency for Labour Market and Recruitment has published the new Labour Market Balance. On the basis of this, SIRI has produced the new positive list serving as guideline to occupations with a shortage of highly qualified labour.

You can find the complete positive list valid from 1 January 2020 here.
 
The following jobs, which have been added on 1. january 2020, were not on the previous positive list in effect from 1 July 2019 until 31 December 2019:

 
• Head of division
• Research and development Manager
• Farming adviser
• Marine engineer
• Architect
• Industrial Designer
• Hospital Doctor 
• Health and wellness counsellor
• Orthopedic Engineer 
• Music therapist
• Hearing aid consultant
• Accounting controller
• HR Consultant
• Web developer
• Civil Economist
• Organist, cantor
• Radiographer
• Medical laboratory technician 

These jobs are from 1 January 2020 no longer on the positive list: 

• Finance manager
• Chief Accountant
• Logistics manager
• Marketing manager
• Deputy manager, sales
• Public relations manager
• Area manager
• Manufacturing manager
• IT manager
• Education manager
• School principal
• Actuary
• Environmental consultant
• Environmental engineer
• Engineer, design and innovation
• Landscape architect
• Land surveyor
• Pharmacist
• Clinical dietician 
• Lecturer at academy of technology and business
• Lecturer at basic social care and healthcare college
• Business school teacher
• Adult Educational Center teacher
• Information technology teacher
• Teacher at public primary and lower secondary school
• Teacher at independent boarding school for lower secondary school students
• Head of preschool class
• Education method specialist
• Business controller
• IT engineer
• Legal officer
• Psychologist
• Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
• Laboratory dental technician
• Construction manager