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

Child in Finland with a residence permit

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 need to have sufficient financial resources.

• You cannot secure sufficient financial resources with benefits paid by the society.
• You can meet the income requirement with, for instance, the income from employment or the business activities of your sponsor who lives in Finland.

Right to work

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

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

• Statement on income in Finland
• 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)

Fill in the application:

Prepare for your life in Finland