A very well written article by DGCA media coordinator (Adeel Asghar) as published on The Copenhagen Post

Opinion | Uncertainty and insecurity make life uneasy for green card holders

Danish Green Card Association takes issue with arbitrary changes in rules for work permits for green card holders

Despite the media focus on the large number of green card holders who are forced to accept a job below their education level, the author argues that there are many success stories that aren’t being reported.

Contacts for Guidance and Coaching with Job Search for GC Holders

Contacts for Guidance and Coaching with Job Search for Green Card holders and their Spouses
Dear Green Card Holders, Following are some specific contacts you can utilize for guidance in your job search process:

Register for CV Making and Job Search Training Workshop

Dear DGCA Members,

As announced earlier, we have now finalized the details of the workshop with Workindenmark. It will be held on 16th of May, 2011 at 9:00 to The workshop is exclusively for Green Card Holders.

Please note following very important points:

• To register for the event you need to send an email on greencard.dk@gmail.com, no later than 11th of May 2011 (Wednesday). The places are few and we will give priority to registered members of DGCA and after that its first come first serve basis.
• The place is in zone 66 (You will have to punch a 2 zone clip card for 4 times if you live in the central area and have only 2 zone bus pass) and it may cost you around DKK 50 to travel.
• The workshop is designed to give you a better understanding of Danish Job market and its requirements. It does not aim to offer you the job on the same day. It can however give you the skills required to be more effective in your job search process.

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A survey report about green card holders by Ministry of Integration.

Highly skilled foreigners work as unskilled

Almost one third of the highly skilled foreigners work in Denmark on Greencards, work as unskilled workers – typically in industrial, cleaning, hotel and catering industry. It shows a new study reveals how the Green Card system works.

The points-based Green Card scheme which allows highly skilled foreigners to enter Denmark as a job, entered into force in July 2008. Greencards were together with a number of other schemes to attract skilled foreign workers and thus increase the labor supply in Denmark.

To discover whether Green Card scheme has proven successful, Ramboll has carried out a review of the Ministry of Integration.

The study shows in particular that 27 per cent. those aliens who will get a greencard, never travel to Denmark and that 20 per cent. of those who come here do not work.

Denmark loses the battle for high-skilled immigrants

Denmark desperately need highly skilled foreign workers but worrisome get educated choose to Denmark

2nd May 2010, By: HANS RASMUSSEN KORNØ

The Nordic countries will in future be in a big and very urgent problem.Shortages of highly skilled labor. Now is the demographic development, with many older and fewer young strike, and Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland are therefore forced to obtain outside help. The same trend taking place across Europe, and aid must therefore increasingly coming from countries outside Europe.

Proposal to lower the income limit of Green Card scheme

K: Confusing messages from V

Friday 10th August 2007; at. 13:43 by jely

De Konservative mener, at Venstre kommer med forvirrende meldinger om at øge indvandringen for at skaffe arbejdskraft. Men den konservative integrationsordfører, Henriette Kjær, ser positivt på statsministerens forslag om at sænke indtægtsgrænsen i green card-ordningen for at løse arbejdsmarkedets problemer med at tiltrække kvalificeret arbejdskraft.

TV2 Program on Green Card Holders

Ramesh Kumar, 34, has worked for 10 years as a lawyer in India.

Until recently, he dreamed of earning good money as a lawyer in Denmark.Now he rates on working as a cleaner or dishwasher in Copenhagen.

“It is impossible to get a good job that suits my qualifications. So I am now interested in anything just to survive,” says Ramesh Kumar.

Watch Video here: http://nyhederne-dyn.tv2.dk/article/29453598/?ss

More are on the way
Ramesh Kumar is one of the 1,373 foreigners who have been Greencard since the system was expanded in summer 2008. But far more is coming.

The number of applicants has risen from 816 in 2008 to nearly 5,800 in 2009. And right now there is a backlog of more than 5,000 cases awaiting a decision from the Immigration Service.