If you have applied for temporary protection and will leave Finland permanently

If you are going to leave Finland and do not intend to return to Finland, you need to cancel your application for temporary protection in Finland or your residence permit in Finland. If you later decide to return to Finland, you can submit a new application for temporary protection.

How to cancel an application for temporary protection or a residence permit for temporary protection

If you are at least 18 years of age and want to cancel your temporary protection application or residence permit, complete the following notification form:

Notification form in SwedishFile opens in a new tab

Notification form in RussianFile opens in a new tab

Use the Latin alphabet. Each adult (over 18 years of age) must submit his or her own notification. Write the exact address in the notification. Remember to include the house number, the staircase letter and the apartment number in the street address.

If you want to cancel the temporary protection application or residence permit of a child under 18 years of age, complete the following notification form:

Notification form in SwedishFile opens in a new tab

Notification form in RussianFile opens in a new tab

Sign the notification form and send it to the Finnish Immigration Service

Sign the notification form.

• If the notification concerns a child under 18 years old who has two parents or guardians in Finland, the notification must be signed by both of them. 
• If the notification concerns an unaccompanied child, the notification must be signed by the child’s representative. If a district court has not yet assigned a representative to the child, the notification must be signed by the director of the child’s reception centre.
• If the child is 12–17 years old, the notification must be signed by the child as well as the child’s parents or guardians or representative.

Absence of signature or other necessary information will delay processing. Send a scan or photograph of the notification to the Finnish Immigration Service.

Send the notification by email to migri@migri.fi using the securemail.migri.fiLink to an external website, Opens in a new tab service, which is intended for sending encrypted emails.

The notification must contain your signature

Sign the notification form. After signing, scan or take a photo of the notification. Send a picture of the signed notification to the Finnish Immigration Service by email

When you have cancelled your temporary protection residence permit, destroy your residence permit card

• Cut the card’s chip into four parts – first into two parts vertically and then horizontally.
• Put the parts in the mixed waste bin, preferably in several different bin bags.

The residence permit card must be destroyed so that it will not be misused. If you have already sent your old card to the Finnish Immigration Service, we will destroy it for you.

You can also cancel your application or residence permit by telling this to an authority in person

• To cancel your application for temporary protection or your residence permit for temporary protection, tell an official of the Finnish Immigration Service, the police, a border control authority, or the director or deputy director of your reception centre in person that you wish to cancel your application or permit. The official will fill in a cancellation form together with you.

The representative of an unaccompanied minor may also cancel the application or residence permit by telling this to an authority in person

• To cancel the application or the residence permit of the child whose representative you are, tell an official of the Finnish Immigration Service, the police, a border control authority, or the director or deputy director of the reception centre in person, together with the child, that the child wishes to cancel his or her application for temporary protection or the residence permit for temporary protection. The official will fill in a cancellation form together with you. If the child is 12–17 years old, the notification must be signed by the child as well as the child’s representative.

What happens when you cancel your application for temporary protection or your residence permit for temporary protection?

If you cancel your application for temporary protection, the processing of the application will end, and the Finnish Immigration Service will issue a decision on the expiry of your application. You cannot appeal the expiry decision to an administrative court.

If you cancel the residence permit that has been granted to you on the basis of temporary protection, the Finnish Immigration Service will issue a decision on the withdrawal of your residence permit. 

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