Skip to Content

Residence permit application for a guardian whose child has been granted international protection

Apply for a residence permit with this application if you are the parent or guardian of a child under 18 years of age and your child is living in Finland with a residence permit granted by Finland on the basis of international protection or temporary protection.

Your child’s residence permit has been granted on the basis of international protection if he or she:

  • is a quota refugee;
  • has been granted asylum; or
  • has been granted a residence permit on the basis of subsidiary protection.

  • Expected processing time

    6 months / extended permit 6 months

  • Electronic application fee

    470 €

  • Paper application fee

    520 €

This is what you should do

Prepare:

General requirements for entry into Finland

Make sure you meet the general requirements for entry into Finland before you submit an application.

Requirements

Make sure you also meet the following requirements:

Income requirement

You are not required to have sufficient financial resources if your child is under 18 years of age or if you meet 1 of the following 2conditions:

  • Your child has been granted asylum or refugee status as a quota refugee before 1 July 2016 and your family has been started before your child came to Finland.
  • Your child has been granted asylum or refugee status as a quota refugee on 1 July 2016 or after this date, and you are applying for a residence permit within 3 months after the Finnish Immigration Service made a decision on your child’s application. The 3 months are counted from the date your child was informed of the decision.

General attachments

  • Valid passport accepted by Finland (um.fi). Present your passport when you submit your residence permit application
  • A passport photo complying with the photo guidelines issued by the police (poliisi.fi), or a photograph retrieval code you received from a photo shop
    • The passport photo must be no more than 6 months old.
  • Colour copy of the passport page containing your personal data and copies of all passport pages with notes
  • Colour copy of the passport page containing personal data and of all pages with notes in the passport of the child living in Finland
  • Form for clarification of family ties PK3_plus (to be filled in and signed by the child living in Finland)
  • Document showing that you are legally staying in the country where you submit the application
  • Form MP_1 (if you already are in Finland and apply for your first residence permit)
  • Birth certificate of the child living in Finland, with information on the child’s parents (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries or in an EU Member State)
  • Document on the custody of the child living in Finland (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries)

Application-specific attachments

  • Certificate of establishment of paternity (if the child is born out of wedlock) (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries or in an EU Member State)
  • Decision on adoption (if the child is adopted) (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries or in an EU Member State)
  • Divorce certificate (if the parents of the child are divorced) (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries or in an EU Member State)
  • Death certificate (if one or both of the child’s parents have died) (must be legalised if not issued in the Nordic countries or in an EU Member State)

Right to work

You have an unrestricted right to work. You cannot start working before you get a residence permit.

Fill in the application:

Residence permit application on the basis of family ties for a guardian whose child lives in Finland, OLE_PH3

Fill in an electronic application
Fill in a paper application

Prepare for your life in Finland