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Customer bulletins

Student: follow the processing queue on our website or in Enter Finland
Press release 23.9.2019 13.47
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
Delays in the delivery of residence permit cards
Press release 19.9.2019 8.48
Have you already visited the Facebook page of the Finnish Immigration Service?
Press release 16.9.2019 13.03
British citizen: remember to register your right of residence as soon as possible
Press release 16.9.2019 10.09

Press releases

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
Reports on the fact-finding mission to Iraq published
Press release 28.6.2019 9.30