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Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Post by kmfrk »

throwawayCPH wrote: post #37
hjalle wrote: post #36

I'm pretty sure you already thought about it, but you might consider Sweden (Malmo) as well, since it's really close to CPH and will probably increase your chances of staying in that area at least, although it's not Denmark.

Yeah, Malmö is also an option, although I'm not sure how big the tech community is there?

They've got a pretty interesting mobile payment start-up named iZettle: https://www.izettle.com. They're currently using Facebook integration, so you might be able to help them out with that.

There are a bunch of other companies in the same space in Sweden alone, apparently: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/25/mobile-payments-....

Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Post by throwawayCPH »

dejv wrote: post #52

How about making trip outside of EU and return back which should give you another 90 days tourist visa? It is not permanent solution, but it give you some more time to get better visas.

I would need to stay out 90 days as well before returning for another 90 days...

Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Post by antr »

kmfrk wrote: post #11

You can try contacting your embassy ( http://denmark.usembassy.gov/ ) and see what options you have available. It sounds like you're pretty overqualified to be in Denmark. :) You could also try to hit up the Robocat guys ( http://robocatapps.com/ ) and ask if they know someone in the community who have any open positions. I don't know how well they're doing, but Planely ( http://www.planely.com/ ) offer visas for emp…

you seem to be underqualified to make qualification assumptions of the Danish labour market

Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Post by hirenj »

davidw wrote: post #41
hirenj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the overqualified here probably is in respect to the points system. You gain points for the level of education that you have, what your nationality is etc. For example, I've got points to burn here being an EU national with a bevy of academic qualifications.

> I've got points to burn here being an EU national with a bevy of academic qualifications. I thought EU citizens were free to move to other EU countries without questions?

I'm joint EU and Australian - so that's probably why I had the points system in my head. There's no points system for the first three months. There are, however, restrictions on EU citizens after three months, as you need a registration certificate. As far as I can see, you can get this if you're either employed, able to fend for yourself while studying, or are filthy rich.

Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Post by kayoone »

aik wrote: post #31
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya, that's weird. From my own anecdotal experience, Denmark has the maybe highest per capita computer science PhDs in the world.

Very interesting. What do you think is responsible for this? How did it come about? My understanding is that the education system in Denmark (and their core educational values) is different than most places.

All of scandinavia is really good in IT in regards to their tiny population. They also often have the best gamers/clans in the world :) Most of the year its very cold, IT infrastructure was very very good 10 years ago already and the countries are wealthy and have very good educational systems.
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