- Residence permit
- EU citizen
- Finnish citizenship
- Asylum in Finland
- What are the grounds for asylum?
- Applying for asylum
- Living in a reception centre
- Living in private accommodation
- Accommodation of an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker
- Legal advice
- Representative of an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker
- Daily life in a reception centre
- Asylum seeker’s right to work
- Processing of asylum applications
- Cancelling an application
- Positive decision
- Negative decision
- Subsequent applications
- Family members seeking asylum in Europe
- Quota refugees
- Detention
- Assistance system for victims of human trafficking
- Transfer of refugee status to Finland
- Withdrawal of refugee status and subsidiary protection
- Cancellation of refugee status and subsidiary protection
- Voluntary return
- Effect of crime on the asylum process
- Travel documents
- Income requirement
- Processing of applications
- Notify us of changes
- Requests and certificates
- Legislation
- Informing of the decision
- Appealing a decision
- Cancellation of a permit
- Refusal of entry and deportation
- Right to work
- For employers
- Travelling
- Visiting Finland
Age assessment, or establishment of age of a person younger than 18 (age test)
Assessing your age is an important part of determining your identity.
We seek to determine your age on the basis of documents or your interview. If you cannot show us any documents, we will register the age you tell us as your age.
However, if the authorities have well-founded reasons for suspecting that you have not told us your real age, we may perform a forensic age assessment.
For example, we may have doubts if you seem older than you claim to be, or if the information you have given us leads us to suspect that you are older than you say.
The age assessment can be performed if you, your guardian or your other legal representative gives a written consent. If you refuse the age assessment without an acceptable reason, you will be treated as an adult. However, this alone is not a reason for us to reject your asylum application.
At present, the examination methods most commonly used include dental and carpal bone examinations by X-ray and clinical examination.
You will get more information about the age assessment if you are going to get one.
If the age assessment reveals that you are 18 years of age or older, we will process your application as an adult’s application.