Denmark
Change in the duration of residence and work permits issued in Greenland
Effective 22 August 2025, the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) is changing its practice regarding the duration of residence and work permits issued to foreign nationals who wish to come to Greenland to work.
Under the Aliens Act, as implemented in Greenland, a residence permit may be granted to a foreign national for the purpose of working in Greenland if either ‘significant employment or professional considerations justify granting the application’. In practice, residence permits are granted for a maximum of one year from the date of the decision.
Under the Landsting Act on the regulation of labour supply, Greenlandic employers are required to obtain a municipal permit if they wish to hire foreign labour for certain positions because qualified Greenlandic labour is not available. Foreign nationals applying for a residence permit on the basis of work in these areas in Greenland must present such a municipal permit in order to obtain a residence permit. These municipal permits are granted for a maximum of two years.
In order to create a better correlation between the length of the municipal permit and the residence and work permit, SIRI is now changing its practice so that residence permits based on work in Greenland can be granted for a maximum of two years. The same applies to accompanying family members of the aforementioned group of persons, as their residence permits follow those of the sponsor.
The change in practice will also mean that it will not be necessary to apply for an extension of the residence and work permit every year.
Change of the Immigration Service’ practice when calculating stay for permanent residence permit in Greenland
Effective 22 August 2025, the Immigration Service is changing its practice in cases regarding permanent residence permit in Greenland.
Applicants for permanent residence in Greenland on the grounds of work must have stayed legally in Greenland for the last seven years on the same grounds. This practice means that the period of stay is interrupted if the foreign national change sector and therefore the calculation of their stay starts again from zero.
Now, for foreign nationals with a residence permit in Greenland and healthcare qualifications who work outside the healthcare sector and who are offered a job in the healthcare sector under a collective agreement, this job change will no longer result in an interruption of the calculation of stay.
This change of practice will only apply in cases where a change of sector is to the healthcare sector. The new practice applies to the same group of foreign nationals included in the fast-track agreement made between the Ministry of Immigration and Integration and the Greenland Self-Government, Naalakkersuisut.
Poland
Plan to remove Georgia from the list of countries subject to the declaration procedure
On 7 August 2025, the government published the Minister of Family Labour and Social Policy draft regulation of 4 August 2025 “on countries whose citizens may be covered by declarations on entrusting work to foreigners and certain provisions of the Act of 20 March 2025 on the conditions for permissibility of entrusting work to foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Poland”.
Currently, employers can request declarations on entrusting performance of work and preferential permits for seasonal work for nationals of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
If approved, the draft regulation would remove citizens of Georgiafrom this list, so that Georgian nationals would be required to follow the full procedure for obtaining a work permit.
