Every year, the Finnish Immigration Service requests the Digital and Population Data Services Agency to extract from the Population Information System data on persons registered as Finnish citizens aged 18 or over in the year in question for whom the Population Information System has an address where the person can be contacted. Persons who have had a municipality of residence in Finland for a total of at least seven years are not included in the sample. The person whose data has been obtained by this extraction will be instructed on how to proceed in order to retain Finnish citizenship when he or she reaches the age of 22. The instructions are issued in the year in which the person turns 18.

The Finnish Immigration Service processes personal data both for the purpose of informing about the retention of citizenship and for the purpose of informing about the circumstances under which a person loses Finnish citizenship directly by law on reaching the age of 22.

The processing is based on compliance with a legal obligation pursuant to Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR. This task is laid down in section 37, subsection 2 of the Nationality Act, which obliges the controller to inform about the threat of losing Finnish citizenship and the possibility of retaining it. 

Data to be processed

For the purpose of informing persons, the Finnish Immigration Service processes the following personal data: 

• personal identity code, 
• name, 
• the code of the population register authority
• your address in Finland or abroad (permanent, temporary or postal address), 
• the latest migration dates,
• the possible start and end dates of the different addresses, and
• native language.

The Finnish Immigration Service processes separately the data of persons with and without an address data security ban.

Disclosure of data

The data will not be disclosed outside the Finnish Immigration Service. In addition, the data will not be transferred outside the EU or EEA, nor to international organisations.

Data retention period

Personal data will be properly destroyed after the sending of customer letters. 

The Finnish Immigration Service's newsletters may be subscribed to directly from the website to your e-mail. By subscribing to the newsletter, the customer gives permission to store his/her contact details for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The data are entered into the Finnish Immigration Service's information system or entered by the staff of the Finnish Immigration Service.

The purpose of the press release distribution list is to distribute press releases and event invitations from the Finnish Immigration Service by e-mail to the media and other persons who have subscribed to the press releases. The collected contact information can also be used for other communications from the Finnish Immigration Service. The communication is based on the consent of the individual.

We process personal data on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. The processing of personal data are based on the customer's consent.

Saved data

The following customer data are stored in the distribution list for press releases:

• name of the subscriber 
• the organisation represented by the subscriber, if provided 
• subscriber's email address

Disclosure of data

The data will not be disclosed outside the Finnish Immigration Service. The data will not be transferred to a third country or international organisation.

Data retention period

The data will be deleted from the register at the request of the person concerned or when there is no longer a legitimate reason to keep it. The content and timeliness of the press release distribution list is also checked every three years.