The Supplementary Pay Limit Scheme
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Den Supplerende Beløbsordning as of 2026-08-22[3] Heading of the Danish-language edition of this route's own page on nyidanmark.dk, transcribed as published. The Aliens Act enumerates the grounds by section number and gives the permits no names of their own, so the authority's published Danish heading is the local name. |
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| Official name (English) | The Supplementary Pay Limit Scheme as of 2026-06-26[3] |
| Legal basis | Udlaendingeloven (Aliens Act), LBK nr 1183 of 25 September 2025, section 9 a(2)(13); unemployment level section 9 a(32); fine-free record condition section 9 a(33); indexation section 9 a(29); extension condition section 9 a(14) as of 2026-06-26[3][4] SIRI's scheme page cites no statutory section anywhere in its text. The identification is made from the consolidated Aliens Act's own wording: section 9 a(2) enumerates the employment and self-employment grounds as numbered items, and item 13 is a job in a field where the annual pay is at least DKK 375,000, conditional on the preceding three months' seasonally adjusted gross unemployment averaging below a ministerially set level and on the post having been advertised on Jobnet and EURES for at least two weeks – which is this scheme's distinguishing condition as SIRI states it. Both sources are Tier-1 and describe the same rule; nothing is inferred from silence. All three limbs – the pay figure, the unemployment gate and the advertising requirement – appear together on SIRI's page for this scheme and on no other. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-06-26[3] |
Who can apply
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-06-26[3][4] A specific and narrow condition rather than a general good-character test: the applicant must not have received a fine of DKK 3,000 or more under the Criminal Code, the Act on Euphoriant Substances, the Act on Weapons and Explosives or the Aliens Act in the two years before applying, and must not receive one after submitting. The applicant signs a sworn declaration; a later fine can cause the permit to be withdrawn. Aliens Act section 9 a(33). |
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Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 5 years as of 2026-06-26[3] Employment of 5 years or more is normally granted 5 years; shorter employment is granted the length of the employment. Entry buffer and passport shortening as on the Pay Limit Scheme. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-06-26[3] |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source[3] No extension length published. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2026-06-26[3] Stricter than the Pay Limit Scheme: the work permit is limited to the employment stated in it, and a new position with the same employer requires a new permit. A sideline job needs a separate permit. Unpaid voluntary work is allowed. No right to work in other Schengen states. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-07-07[3][4][5] Permanent residence requires eight years' uninterrupted legal residence held throughout on a permit under Aliens Act sections 7-9 f, 9 i-9 n, 9 p or 9 q (1) or (2), which the Immigration Service enumerates on its permanent-residence page. This route's permit is granted under section 9 a, which falls inside that range, so time on it counts. Whether the holder also meets the separate employment and supplementary conditions is a question about the individual, not about the route. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-06-26[3] |
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| Salary threshold |
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| Labour-market test | Yes as of 2026-06-26[3][4] The job must have been advertised on Jobnet and on the EURES portal for at least two weeks before the application, and as a rule not more than six months before it; postings on other portals do not satisfy the condition. SIRI does not call this a labour market test and the number of applicants and the state of the recruitment are expressly irrelevant, but it is a prior-advertising condition imposed to test the domestic market, which is what the field records. Statutory basis: Aliens Act section 9 a(2)(13). |
| Qualification requirement | none as of 2026-06-26[3] No educational or professional-field condition. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-06-26[3] AR1 (two parts) or AR6 under power of attorney. The employer also signs a sworn declaration that the Jobnet and EURES advertising condition was met; SIRI spot-checks it. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-06-26[2][3] Not a job-search route, and – unlike the Pay Limit Scheme and the Positive List for People with a Higher Education – it carries no job-seeking entitlement at all. SIRI's job-seeking-permit page lists the qualifying schemes and this one is expressly outside them. |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-06-26[3][4] Aliens Act section 9 a(5) as for the other section 9 a(2) grounds. |
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| Observed processing time | 2 to 5 months as of 2026-06-26[3] Normal 2 months, up to 5 months where further information is needed – the longest published time of any of the five salary and list schemes. |
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Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 6 months · to keep the permit as of 2026-06-26[3] SIRI states the standard Danish lapse rule for this permit: the holder must not give up their Danish address or stay abroad for more than 6 successive months, and a breach makes the permit lapse. A dispensation can be applied for in advance. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-07-23[1][3] |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner, minor child as of 2026-07-23[1][3] Spouse, registered or cohabiting partner, and children under 18 living at home. SIRI's accompanying-family page adds the conditions the scheme page does not state: the family member must live at the same address as the sponsor, a cohabiting partner needs 1.5-2 years of documented cohabitation, and one case order ID, one fee and one application form are required per family member. |
| Family members' work rights | full as of 2026-07-23[1] |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 5 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 5 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-06-26 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-22 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-22 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Accompanying family member to an employee
Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-23 · Accessed 2026-08-20 · Archived copy - [2] Job seeking permit
Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-18 · Accessed 2026-08-20 - [3] The Supplementary Pay Limit Scheme
Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-26 · Accessed 2026-08-20 · Archived copy - [4] Bekendtgoerelse af udlaendingeloven (Aliens Act, consolidated), LBK nr 1183 af 25/09/2025
Udlaendinge- og Integrationsministeriet / Retsinformation · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-09-25 · Accessed 2026-08-22 - [5] Apply for a permanent residence permit
The Danish Immigration Service · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-07 · Accessed 2026-08-19