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Customer bulletins

Will your company have seasonal workers? Try out Enter Finland for employers!
Press release 22.3.2019 14.00
Queue of applications for seasonal work permits and certificates
Press release 21.3.2019 10.15
Finnish Immigration Service official on the Åland islands 23 to 26 April and 4 to 7 June
Press release 20.3.2019 14.10
British citizen: Brexit negotiations continue – make sure that you have registered your right of residence
Press release 15.3.2019 18.11
Visitors to the Helsinki service point: Take into account changed traffic arrangements on Hämeentie
Press release 1.3.2019 8.42

Press releases

REPORT: There are numerous children and young persons in Finland who are victims of human trafficking – yet many more cases remain undetected
Press release 21.3.2019 9.02
The newsroom of the Finnish Immigration Service is now open: more information available about immigration and news about the work of the Finnish Immigration Service
Press release 12.3.2019 13.50
The Finnish Immigration Service now has a new visual appearance – ”We are no longer the same agency we were ten or five years ago”
Press release 25.2.2019 8.29
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
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