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Customer bulletins

Queue of applications for seasonal work permits and certificates
Press release 13.2.2019 15.44
A personal identity code can now be received without a separate application if a permit is granted to reside in Finland
Press release 12.2.2019 8.09
Employer: it is enough to check the asylum seeker’s right to work every eight weeks
Press release 11.2.2019 14.45
Finnish Immigration Service official on the Åland islands 12 to 15 March and 23 to 26 April
Press release 8.2.2019 17.00
No waiting numbers handed out on Wednesdays at the Kuopio service point from 6 to 27 February
Press release 4.2.2019 8.01

Press releases

The assessment of internal flight in asylum decisions is being developed with support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Press release 11.2.2019 13.10
Finnish Immigration Service meets voluntary returnees in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan
Press release 1.2.2019 10.33
Work and study activities at reception centres will be renewed - the aim is to support the activeness of asylum seekers
Press release 28.1.2019 13.06
The National Assistance System for Victims of Human Trafficking trained approximately 750 current and future police officers and border guards in human trafficking issues – the number of clients of the assistance system have increased again
Press release 18.1.2019 10.13
Record number of victims of human trafficking have been referred to Assistance – several sex trafficking victims in Finland
Press release 17.1.2019 9.51
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