tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9130750.post2702571164953276762..comments2024-01-11T20:26:57.109+01:00Comments on Archaeogoddess: Visa RouletteArchaeogoddesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09305683483488880519noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9130750.post-37753666749280736192012-07-06T01:45:30.435+02:002012-07-06T01:45:30.435+02:00This Indonesian, I have been following your blog a...This Indonesian, I have been following your blog and loving it for years now and hope to join all of you soon enough on documenting my own experiences as a Danish immigrant. I credit all of you who have been sharing your own stories (the good, the bad, and the ugly) online with giving both me *and* my husband a very balanced preview of what we are up against, and ensuring I'm not going into this with rose-colored glasses. Heck, they are even making it challenging for my husband to have any enthusiasm about moving back at this point -- Skat has bent the rules (in their favor of course) to argue that he isn't eligible for the tax credit for foreigners or Danes who have lived outside of the country for 10 years. He has in fact lived outside of the country for over 10 years in the U.S., but one of those years he was a post-doc here and was told by Skat that he had to pay taxes to Denmark that year even though he was 100% resident in the U.S. -- simply because he had not sold his flat in Copenhagen. In retrospect, he should have been paying U.S. taxes that year and ownership of a flat there should have had no bearing on the tax situation for him. When he pointed that out to them, he was informed that because the case was now over X years old, Skat wouldn't even talk anymore about it. Lovely.Kathyhttp://thebankes.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9130750.post-43083333199095647092012-07-04T07:54:06.370+02:002012-07-04T07:54:06.370+02:00Kathy, hear hear.
My colleagues (and bosses) at ...Kathy, hear hear. <br /><br />My colleagues (and bosses) at work were so extremely surprised knowing that I didn't have Danish passport yet (Don't know why they think I have / want one). I told them that I couldn't even secure permanent residency yet. They have no idea how the rules were made to be difficult here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9130750.post-85924294543186910682012-07-03T22:03:11.554+02:002012-07-03T22:03:11.554+02:00Greetings from a soon-to-be-ex-Californian moving ...Greetings from a soon-to-be-ex-Californian moving to Aarhus this month with a Danish husband (who has been happliy ensconced in various parts of the U.S. for the last 12+ years) and our little boys. We are almost done jumping through the hoops to secure my Danish temporary residence permit. Love the deposit that we have to pay (not into an interest-bearing account, natch; in fact, most Danish banks wanted to charge us for the privilege of allowing them to hold onto our hard-earned cash for 4 years while we can't touch it -- luckily we found a way to get around that racket)...love the fact that they wanted me to document my ability so speak Spanish and French so I could get some bonus points...so silly. I have a doctorate, have been gainfully employed in a high-paying career for over a decade, got my undergraduate degree from a university in their "world's top 50" (or whatever it is they call it on that random ranking website), etc. -- so I think I had something like double the required minimum number of points required to allow me to even be considered for a permit. At this point, I'm thinking Denmark should pay *ME* for even considering living there for the next few years. :) <br /><br />We went through the reverse process to secure a green card for my husband in the U.S. and it wasn't bad at all. In fact, it was quite easy -- we did it ourselves, no lawyers required, no invasive questions, etc. Wishing you patience and strength to deal with the next application...Kathyhttp://thebankes.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9130750.post-62772034470559227722012-06-28T11:01:35.675+02:002012-06-28T11:01:35.675+02:00Those effing pees! *HULK RAMPAGE*
I feel like the...Those effing pees! *HULK RAMPAGE*<br /><br />I feel like the best solution for everyone would be if an organisation was set up to rescue all the foreigners (and foreigner-enthusiast spouses), and get them to safety. <br /><br />Then Denmark can see how well it does with all the inbred boozers it does such a great job generating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com