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Customer bulletins

Our customer bulletins are available in Finnish, Swedish and English, and some of them have been translated to other languages as well. See the language versions below. To read our customer bulletins in English, go to Customer bulletins.

Answers to frequently asked questions about situation in Afghanistan published on Finnish Immigration Service website

The supplier of asylum-seekers’ prepaid cards is facing delivery problems – what to do if your Moni card does not work

Information about conversion to Christianity reaching the home country does not automatically constitute grounds for international protection

Finnish Immigration Service tells clients about asylum decision by phone or via a video connection

For Moni card holders: Returning money on a Moni card

Finnish Immigration Service cancels all asylum interviews until further notice

New videos give asylum seekers basic information on the asylum process

A personal identity code can now be received without a separate application if a permit is granted to reside in Finland

Security checks to be introduced at the Finnish Immigration Service

Asylum seeker: Let us know the grounds for your subsequent application already when applying

Processing time of asylum applications limited to 6 months from 20 July onwards

Processing of asylum applications submitted before 20 July 2018 continues in a normal manner

 

Finnish citizenship 

Finland´s nationality act

Asylum and the Dublin procedure 

Information for asylum seekers

Information for asylum seekers, children without parents or guardians

Applying for asylum in Finland

Applying for asylum in Finland: Unaccompanied children

Asylum seeker's right to work, instructions for clients

Information on the coronavirus for clients of the Finnish Immigration Service

I have asked for asylum in the EU – which country will handle my claim?

I’m in the Dublin procedure - what does this mean

Children asking for international protection

Fingerprints and Eurodac

Fingerprints and Eurodac

Counsels, representatives and interpreters   

Instruction for representatives - Being a client at the Finnish Immigration Service

Enter Finland for counsels and representatives

Interpretation in the asylum process - guide for interpreters

Recording of interviews

Voluntary return 

Voluntary return

Work 

Seasonal work

Health 

Female genital mutilation

Circumcisium of boys

Publications

 

2021

EASO:

2020

Review of asylum decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service due to ECHR decision

2019

IOM Finland:

2018

Report by the Finnish Immigration Service to the Minister of the Interior on the quality of the asylum procedure and the related decision-making

Report on the challenges of parenting and couple relationships that asylum seekers may face and on the ways to provide help at reception centres

UNHCR: