- 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
How to apply?
If you are a client at a reception centre, submit your application to your reception centre.
- Fill in the application online with the help of the staff at the reception centre.
- Also fill in the authorisation form (in Arabic, English or Finnish). Open the form on the Migri.fi website. You can fill in the form on your computer or print the form and fill it in by hand.
- Sign the forms and give them to the staff at the reception centre.
If you are not registered at a reception centre, send your application to the Finnish Immigration Service.
- Open the application form on the Migri.fi website. You can fill in the form on your computer, or print the form and fill it in by hand.
- Also fill in the authorisation form (in Arabic, English or Finnish). Open the form on the Migri.fi website. You can fill in the form on your computer, or print the form and fill it in by hand.
- Sign the forms and send them to the Finnish Immigrations Service by post.
- If you wish, you can submit your application in person by placing it in the postbox at one of the service points of the Finnish Immigration Service.