Press releases

Finnish Immigration Service to review approximately 500 asylum decisions

Due to a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued on 14 November 2019, the Finnish Immigration Service will review around 500 of its asylum decisions. The purpose of this is to ensure that all potentially similar cases have been duly identified.

Reintegration of voluntary returnees to Iraq from Finland has succeeded to a fair extent

The reintegration of Iraqi returnees to their home region has succeeded to a fair extent, according to a follow-up study conducted by the Finnish office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Finnish Immigration Service to pursue a considerable reduction of processing times

The Finnish Immigration Service is launching a change project to considerably reduce processing times and to improve its customer service.

Finnish Immigration Service to begin cooperation negotiations with staff about temporary lay-offs

The Finnish Immigration Service is considering temporary lay-offs and will begin cooperation negotiations with its personnel. The negotiations involve the entire personnel, which consists of 1,025 employees.

First report published from fact-finding mission to Afghanistan: focus on overall situation in Kabul

The newly published report from the Finnish Immigration Service’s fact-finding mission to Afghanistan deals with the general circumstances in Kabul. The fact-finding mission focused especially on gathering information about the situation of Afghan citizens who have returned or have been returned from European countries.

Open lecture series on return migration and mobility – Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq

During the autumn of 2019, the Migration Institute of Finland and the Finnish Immigration Service will organise a four-part Studia Generalia lecture series on return migration and mobility. The lecture series is part of the AUDA project. The first three lectures of the series will cover the challenges and possibilities of return migration to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The fourth and final lecture will focus on mobility and the many dimensions of return migration on a more general level. Schedule for the lecture series:

The programme for monitoring the reception system has been updated

The national monitoring programme for the reception system for asylum seekers has been updated.

Finnish Immigration Service is developing its country information reports – reports on Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan will no longer be published in every six months

This autumn, the Finnish Immigration Service is launching a project for further development of its reporting practices concerning the country of origin information required for asylum decisions. As current country of origin information is needed about an increasing number of countries, the goal of the project is to make the situation reporting even more flexible than before.

More support for asylum-seeker families and children in reception centres

Forced begging and forced marriages also uncovered in Finland

Artificial intelligence enters the workplace – how will the rules of work change? Finnish Immigration Service at SuomiAreena on 19 July

Reports on the fact-finding mission to Iraq published

Reductions in accommodation capacity at reception centres

Report on the situation in Syria published

Reports on the fact-finding mission to Russia published: focus on the North Caucasus and the criminal procedure in Russia

Asylum seekers will soon receive information about the asylum processes also on video

Summer season in the strawberry fields is near – seasonal workers will soon start their work

Antti Lehtinen appointed as Director of Asylum Unit

The fact-finding mission to Afghanistan focused on gathering information from Kabul

Monitoring report: The operation of reception centres is usually appropriate, though deficiencies were also found