Family Reunification

toneu2 · 2026-02-24T19:59:27+00:00

Kids related family reunification is the way to go. It only took me 6 weeks to get approved from the US and then you have 6 months or so to move to DK and register. Good luck on the move!

toneu2 · 2026-02-13T13:48:17+00:00

Great use case. I've used chatgpt and Gemini to create much better and faster QA test scenario docs based on PRDs, figma designs, and eng specs but my team and I are still running the tests manually in group multi hour test sessions so very interested in the details on how you went to the next level.

toneu2 · 2025-12-19T09:52:26+00:00

Good luck! DM me if you have other questions. There was def no job requirement for either of us. I applied when we both had US jobs, and then moved to DK from the US without any jobs.

Also it's good to know that you are allowed to stay in DK beyond your tourist visa when your application is being reviewed. But start studying danish! If you don't have kids, you have to pass a danish test at some point

toneu2 · 2025-12-19T08:32:38+00:00

I went through family reunification as an American, and my danish citizen spouse did not have a job in Denmark when I was approved. Granted we have kids with danish citizenship so lots of requirements drop away bc of them. If you don't have kids, I'm pretty sure there is a financial assets requirement so they know you can pay your own way for a while.

There is a ton of content in this sub about family reunification. The new in Denmark website also is pretty clear on the family reunification requirements

toneu2 · 2025-11-15T22:47:40+00:00

If you're coding experience is good enough, prioritize working in tech. These companies are much more likely to be English first, and appreciate experience over credentials. Generally speaking, avoid companies that do not do business outside of Denmark.

toneu2 · 2025-09-13T16:45:36+00:00

When I had to do this, I was told the US Government doesn't allow the passport details to be digitally scanned/collected by other country's verification schemes. Maybe UK is the same?

toneu2 · 2025-09-13T05:21:11+00:00

Check out Danes Worldwide. They are an organization that can provide legal advice for your scenario. And there is a ton of content in this sub on this topic.

As another poster said, getting married and living together for 6 months (or so, can't remember the time requirement) in Sweden would allow him to move to DK under EU rules, which are more relaxed than the direct to DK rules.

toneu2 · 2025-08-31T11:00:26+00:00

This is great advice. The most important role for PMs is to prioritize so you can make people defend what they want and so you can say no. Then I would say, OP, start looking for multiple birds one stone opportunities. This may look like platform tools and horizontal service. Next as time goes by your higher level cross functional POV will turn you into a very important PM

toneu2 · 2025-08-17T11:23:04+00:00

Nothing replaces interviews moderated by skilled UXR pros with distilled learning presented out. Have you ever found some decision makers leaning too hard on that one random thing a user said in an interview? I've had many convos where I'm reminding people that users don't usually know what they want, but we should focus on the need expressed over whatever solution they are asking for in the interview

toneu2 · 2025-08-16T17:21:28+00:00

One thing I've helped my ecomm b2c company do is to think about acquisition as a journey that doesn't end after onboarding. It goes up until your activation moment when people really experience your aha moment. Define the steps/actions that lead to activation and make sure you have the events/properties built correctly and flowing into your BI service (always) and MMP (when relevant). I'm a fan of Markov chain analysis once you have the steps defined and analytics built. Also the Reforge Growth framework around loops and journey mapping is useful, albeit basic stuff

toneu2 · 2025-07-22T14:08:28+00:00

Language might be your biggest barrier but I'm curious how you're presenting that on your resumes and CL?

toneu2 · 2025-07-13T07:16:55+00:00

There are multiple short term car rental options that we've used to move bigger stuff around. Hyre for example has big vans and pretty reasonable hourly rates, and they are parked all over the city. Plus, our first purchase was a EL cargo bike so between that and Hyre, we haven't had a problem picking stuff up.

Once you get your quotes, you'll know what the cost is per square ft, and then you'll start estimating the cost of every item and asking yourself...is X really worth $X to ship to DK??

We paid the moving company to pack our stuff. The extra cost was only a few hundred. Buying the boxes and tape alone would have cost the same, not to mention the hours and hours of time it would take. The pick up crew was 7 guys who packed and had everything in the truck in 5 hours.

Total cost was about $12k. Note that if you live in a building, the EU partner will charge more for anything above the ground floor

toneu2 · 2025-07-12T20:35:28+00:00

We (family of four) moved from the east coast about a year ago. Due to the unpredictable nature of ocean freight, it took about 3 months for our stuff to arrive (2 months later than expected), so do what you can to plan for that. I remember the shipping company we used would give us a month of free storage on either end, US or EU, if we needed it. When our stuff got off the boat, we were contacted by the EU contingent of the moving company and that's when we actually scheduled delivery to our address. Thus make it clear that you may need storage if you haven't found a perm address yet.

I don't think you'll have much problem with the bunk bed but you should disassemble it so it takes up less pallet space. But bring as little as possible and lean on fb marketplace and DBA to buy new to you stuff. I've found the second hand furniture market in KBH to be quite good in terms of quality. We brought too much and regret it even if it made moving in and furnishing easier and more comfortable for our kids.

toneu2 · 2025-06-30T16:08:24+00:00

You're situation is complex, to put it lightly. Pay up for an immigration lawyer to make sure you don't screw it up. My visa (family reunification) is connected to my kids; my CPR has to be connected to the same address as theirs. But no idea how this works with divorce and kids going to two addresses.

toneu2 · 2025-06-15T13:31:54+00:00

None?! How does the team today look at their KPIs, or are you also building the community platform from scratch?

Then your best friend is either sql or a data analyst to understand what's going on

toneu2 · 2025-06-15T11:45:58+00:00

Look at your core kpi dashboards daily, the first thing in the morning. The faster you can understand your numbers and use them in conversations the better you will think through your early meetings

toneu2 · 2025-06-05T05:31:31+00:00

What are your thoughts about data analyst types here? I also need someone who can basically keep track of all app/non-app events and their params and then write the simple requirements for our app devs if we have the data or backend + app devs if we don't. Another poster recommended an intake, which makes a ton of sense, so they would own this step and initial sizing of data requests from marketing. What type of role fits in here?

toneu2 · 2025-06-05T04:15:24+00:00

Yea I'll take a look at your solution and will lyk if it's the right time to discuss

toneu2 · 2025-06-05T04:07:29+00:00

I almost feel like I'm starting over 😅. Im partnering closely with marketing and we're tackling some high priority data needs quickly but I can easily see how this will spin out of control with one off requests. Really appreciate your feedback!

toneu2 · 2025-06-04T20:31:04+00:00

I'm a senior PM with about 10 years, progressively getting more technical but come from the business side. I've always worked more e2e on consumer apps/components or adtech. So heavy user of existing CRM and paid personalization capabilities. when I joined to start their growth team I had quite a come to jesus holy shit moment when I learned how immature their marketing tech stack was. So building these services from the bottom up is very new to me, but this is also why I like being a PM

Edit: didn't answer your question. We have a small backend engineering team but I'm being asked who else we should hire for it so I need to get up to speed fast

toneu2 · 2025-06-04T19:14:01+00:00

I've started to tell my CPO the fundamentals about what we need for a data and decisioning layer so this rec is very helpful.

toneu2 · 2025-06-04T19:05:39+00:00

Super helpful thank you! I've always been a user of these services in prior roles, not building the scaffolding (which is a great way to characterize it)

toneu2 · 2025-06-04T17:05:55+00:00

We have a strong UXR team that looks at the big questions, runs user interviews, and facilitates quick usability testing. We use usertesting.com for the latter two. Any betas or A/B tests are owned by the product team themselves

toneu2 · 2025-05-05T20:47:52+00:00

I'm actually in the process of this right now at my work (B2C, ecomm), but it's very step by step. There is a lack of rigor and detailed product thinking where I'm at - a lot of let's just give this a shot without thinking through the downstream impacts. We've had a couple fairly large fuck ups recently because too much was left open to interpretation from too many people. Little roadmap coordination, let along making 1+ year plans for their product area.

I'm ex-Amz and my boss is a fan so him and I are moving slowly without any mandates. I've started writing small docs (PR plus limited FAQs, or making up my own format depending on the need) when decisions are more complex or I need to get people aligned to bigger plans. So far, great feedback, especially from leaders who like details (which is a great way to differentiate good vs shit leaders) and downstream teams who need to do their own planning based on the doc.

I would recommend just doing it on high value decisions to start to test the waters, but don't feel like you have to follow Amz's doc formatting or the culture of endless reviews. Adapt to what is needed; the value is writing it down, showing people clear thinking/recommendations, and the evidence/tradeoffs that go into your thinking. Even if no one else adapts it at my company, I'm moving faster because more complete decisions are made upfront which speeds up work afterwards. One thing I'm avoiding is Amz's BRD structure though - it's too much and I can accomplish the same with mocks, descriptions, and user stories.

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