- 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
Waiting for the decision
After your asylum interview, your application will be transferred to the processing queue and from there to one of our decision-makers.
You can see the expected processing time of your application in the Processing Time Checker.
As the processing time depends on the personal situation of each applicant, someone who arrived in Finland at the same time as you may receive a decision before you do. This is normal. Please simply wait for your decision. The Finnish Immigration Service will contact you if something is missing from your application.
Matters concerning an asylum seeker must be kept secret by law. Information about these can be disclosed only to the applicant himself or herself, or to the applicant’s legal representative. The purpose of the secrecy is to protect the applicant’s privacy and safety. Over email, we cannot verify the identity of the sender of a message. Because of this, we cannot reply by email to messages concerning an asylum application and give information about whether the person that the inquiry concerns is a customer of the Finnish Immigration Service or whether confidential information can be disclosed. If you send an inquiry concerning your own asylum application by email, we will reply to you personally by sending a letter to the address that you have given the Finnish Immigration Service. If you have a legal counsel, you can also ask him or her for help with making an inquiry.
You may live in a reception centre or private accommodation while your application is being processed.
Read more in the section Daily life in a reception centre.
Watch a video about waiting for the decision.
Being a client at the Finnish Immigration Service
- Anvisning för asylsökande (sv)
- Instruções aos requerentes de asilo (pt)
- Instruction for asylum seekers (en)
- Instructions pour les demandeurs d’asile (fr)
- Şîret bo penaxwazin (Kurmandži)
- Sığınmacı kılavuzu (tr)
- Udhëzime për azilkërkuesin (sq)
- Warbixin loogu talagalay qofka magangalyo-doonka ah (so)
- Инструкция просителю убежища (ru)
- تعليمات لطالبي اللجوء تسيير المعاملات لدى مديرية الهجرة (ar)
- راهنمایی پناهجو رسیدگی به امور در اداره کل مهاجرت (fa)
- پناه غوښتونکو ته لارښوونه د کډوالو په اداره کی د اړوندو کارونو سر ته رسونه (ps)
- ሓበሬታ ንሓተትቲ ዑቕባ፤ ተገልጋሊ ኣገልግሎት ኢሚግሬሽን ፊንላንድ ምዃን (ti)