Experienced lawyers for exciting assignments on international migration cooperation and asylum policy in the Ministry of Immigration and Integration's department

Dreaming about working with international migration cooperation and asylum policy? Do you want to handle central societal tasks within an area of high political attention? And do you want to work with complex legal and professional issues in close collaboration with skilled colleagues on Slotsholmen and internationally? Then we have an exciting position for you!

Welcome to UIM

We deal with questions such as

• who may enter and reside in the country? And who may obtain citizenship?
• how do we ensure that foreigners contribute to and participate in society?
• how do we ensure that people without legal residence leave the country?

These are important questions that all countries must address – and this is exactly our core tasks.

You can read more about our core tasks and our ministry here.

We are in total about 250 employees in the department, who look forward to welcoming you to a daily life characterized by high professionalism, strong commitment, plenty of sparring and a good social environment.

Here you can come to work

The Office International Migration Cooperation deals with international cooperation in the migration area - particularly the European Schengen and asylum cooperation, including borders, visas, returns and asylum. The office prepares, among other things, the Minister for Immigration and Integration’s participation in the EU’s Council of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs and assists in preparing the Prime Minister’s participation in the European Council.

The office assists the minister on their official travels, and handles negotiations of EU legislation at all levels. The office is also involved in cooperation within the UN regime including cooperation with UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and finally the office participates in the IGC (Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees) cooperation as well as high-level Nordic cooperation on refugee issues (NSHF).

Finally, the Migration Task Force is anchored in the office, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for tasks related to delivering the ambition of new solutions within the asylum system. The Task Force work includes, among other things, dialogue with third countries, alliance-building with EU institutions, EU member states, international organizations and other partner countries.

The Office of Asylum and Immigration has responsibility for a broad portfolio of tasks in the asylum area and the entry area. In the asylum area, Asylum and Immigration handles the rules related to international protection, including the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as the Aliens Act rules on asylum, quota refugees, human trafficking and handling of mass influx.

The office also deals with the asylum procedures, rules on the distribution of asylum seekers in the EU and asylum seekers’ housing conditions in Denmark. In the entry area, Asylum and Immigration is responsible for the Aliens Act and EU law rules on, among other things, border control, including in relation to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Your role

As a lawyer with us you will have meaningful and important tasks, and you will have the opportunity to gain experience with, among other things, legislative preparatory work, ministerial support, international cooperation and policy development within societally relevant areas with great attention.

You may

• contribute to legal analyses and assessments, including interpretation of legislation, conventions and other legal bases,
• participate in legislative preparatory processes and support the development and adaptation of regulatory frameworks,
• assist ministerial services through the preparation of memoranda, briefing notes and written contributions to political processes and press inquiries,
• collaborate across the department as well as with our agencies and other authorities,
• handle varied tasks that require both legal method, structure and political understanding.

About you

We imagine that you

• have completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) or equivalent,
• have one or more years of experience preferably from the central administration,
• have political acumen,
• work analytically and in a structured way and can communicate complex issues clearly and precisely both orally and in writing,
• thrive in a politically governed organization, have a good overview and can handle changing priorities and deadlines,
• can collaborate constructively with colleagues with different professional backgrounds,
• are flexible and service-minded and eager to collaborate broadly with many internal and external partners,
• and actively contribute to a professional and social community.

We offer you

When you start with us, we provide an onboarding program, where you will, among other things, be assigned a mentor and receive ongoing sparring in solving your tasks.

We would like to have employees who are competent and have a strong professional foundation. Therefore we are committed to you developing professionally and personally through our various courses, new tasks and with the possibility that you can, in time, move to other positions within UIM’s area.

We value the balance between work and private life. Therefore there is flexibility in the arrangement of working hours and the possibility to agree on remote work on an ad hoc basis after an onboarding process.

Are you curious?

If you want to know more about the positions concretely in the respective offices, you are welcome to contact the following:

The Office of International Migration Cooperation: Office Manager Louise Berth at tel. +45 61 98 33 20.

The Office of Asylum and Immigration: Office Manager Øzlem Gencay Akar at tel. +45 20 98 69 73.

Come and become part of UIM

We look forward to receiving your application, CV and degree certificate etc. no later than Sunday, 18 October 2026.

In connection with your application you are welcome to indicate if there is one of the offices you are particularly interested in.

We expect to hold interviews in week 43.

Salary and terms of employment

You will be employed under the state agreement for academics and will be placed as an administrator or consultant depending on your qualifications and experience. There is the possibility to negotiate supplements that match your qualifications.

These are permanent full-time positions with an average of 37 hours per week.

The positions are available for occupation as soon as possible.

The employer is the Ministry of Immigration and Integration with its associated institutions, and the workplace is the department at Slotholmsgade 10-12, 1216 Copenhagen K.

To be employed with us you must be able to pass a security check or obtain security clearance to CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET depending on which office you are employed in. You can read about how we process your personal data here.

Equality in all its aspects is important. Therefore all interested are encouraged to apply regardless of ethnic background, religion, gender, age and similar factors. The Ministry of Immigration and Integration is a member of the Equal Access Association.

Application deadline: 18 October 2026

Department: Slotsholmsgade 10 1216 København K

Location: The Ministry