The Danish Immigration Service is adapting to a new reality where foreigners are to be made more welcome.

The need to open up to foreign working power is turning the Danish Immigration Service upside down. The agency, which used to be a brake block on immigration, now finds itself in the role of helping qualified foreign labour enter the Danish labour market as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Labour is in short supply among Danish companies. "I am afraid that some companies give up trying to recruit from abroad because they think it will be too difficult and time consuming to obtain work permits. That is an image that we want to do away with by explaining how easy it actually is," states managing director Henrik Grunnet of the Danish Immigration Service. "We no longer focus so much on stopping immigration. There is another need and we have another mission today. We simply have to centre our attention more on service."

Head of department Erling Brandstrup from the Danish Immigration Service's Business Office explains that the Service will be visiting a number of business organisations in order to inform them about the regulations on recruiting from abroad, including the time schedule for the casework and the aims of the Service.

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