- Residence permit
- EU citizen
- Finnish citizenship
- Asylum in Finland
- What are the grounds for asylum?
- Applying for asylum
- Living in a reception centre
- Living in private accommodation
- Accommodation of an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker
- Legal advice
- Representative of an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker
- Daily life in a reception centre
- Asylum seeker’s right to work
- Processing of asylum applications
- Cancelling an application
- Positive decision
- Negative decision
- Subsequent applications
- Family members seeking asylum in Europe
- Quota refugees
- Detention
- Assistance system for victims of human trafficking
- Transfer of refugee status to Finland
- Withdrawal of refugee status and subsidiary protection
- Cancellation of refugee status and subsidiary protection
- Voluntary return
- Effect of crime on the asylum process
- Travel documents
- Income requirement
- Processing of applications
- Notify us of changes
- Requests and certificates
- Legislation
- Informing of the decision
- Appealing a decision
- Cancellation of a permit
- Refusal of entry and deportation
- Right to work
- For employers
- Travelling
- Visiting Finland
Interpreting
Reception centre employees may book an interpreter to help you in situations where they handle important official matters that concern you. For example, information sessions organised by the reception centre will be interpreted into a language that you understand. An interpreter is often booked for your visits to the nurse, the social worker or the social counsellor.
The interpreter may not necessarily interpret into your mother tongue if there is another language that you understand sufficiently well.
The reception centre will not book an interpreter for all everyday situations. Instead, everyone should make an effort to make do without an interpreter.
Interpreters and translators always have an obligation to maintain secrecy.
You will find more information about the roles of the authorities and the interpreter in a video produced by the project At Home in Finland. The video has not been made by the Finnish Immigration Service, and therefore the practices at some of the appointments at the Finnish Immigration Service may differ from those described on the video. You will find more information about interpretation at asylum interviews in the Finnish Immigration Service’s video “Asylum interview”.