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Customer bulletins

Student: follow the processing queue on our website or in Enter Finland
Press release 11.10.2019 14.35
Delays in the processing of citizenship applications in October
Press release 30.9.2019 10.38
Queue of applications for seasonal work permits and certificates
Press release 27.9.2019 15.34
The service number for employers will be closed after 30 September 2019 – Finnish Immigration Service is issuing certificates on asylum seekers’ right to work
Press release 27.9.2019 13.48
Did you come to Finland as an asylum seeker in 2015 and receive international protection? You may be entitled to a permanent residence permit
Press release 19.9.2019 12.33

Press releases

The programme for monitoring the reception system has been updated
Press release 2.10.2019 12.40
Finnish Immigration Service is developing its country information reports – reports on Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan will no longer be published in every six months
Press release 17.9.2019 12.51
More support for asylum-seeker families and children in reception centres
Press release 2.9.2019 9.14
Forced begging and forced marriages also uncovered in Finland
Press release 5.8.2019 8.27
Artificial intelligence enters the workplace – how will the rules of work change? Finnish Immigration Service at SuomiAreena on 19 July
Press release 17.7.2019 11.49