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Application Finder

This Application Finder will help you find the right application and the information you need. Answer the questions, and the Application Finder takes you to the right page based on your answers. If the Application Finder instructs you to apply for a permit, fill in an online application in our online service Enter Finland. Submitting a paper application is possible, too.

Do you need help with the application finder? Watch our video instructions (youtube.com).

Instructions for people fleeing from Ukraine and for people helping them.

Residence permit
Residence permit

You will stay in Finland for longer than 90 days. You need a residence permit or you need to register your right of residence.

You can fast-track your application if you are applying for a first residence permit as a specialist, manager or start-up entrepreneur and will submit the application outside Finland. Your family members can fast-track their applications as well.

Tourism and business trips, for example, count as visits. You can spend a maximum of 90 days in Finland with a visa or visa-free.

You need to apply for an extended permit or a permanent residence permit before your residence permit expires.

If you have stayed in Finland long enough, you may apply for a permanent residence permit.

Apply for a new card if your residence permit is still valid but your card is going to expire or you have lost it.

If you are a victim of human trafficking, you may get a residence permit in Finland.

EU citizen
EU citizen

You will stay in Finland for longer than 90 days. When you are an EU citizen or a family member of an EU citizen, you must register your right of residence.

Brexit
Brexit

The withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU entered into force on 1 February 2020. A transitional period running to the end of 2020 started at the same time.

Travel documents
Travel documents

Alien’s passports and refugee travel documents are travel documents issued instead of national passports. Apply for a Finnish passport from the police.

Asylum in Finland
Asylum in Finland

When you are being persecuted and need asylum.

Finnish citizenship
Finnish citizenship

You may get Finnish citizenship by application or by declaration. You may use the same application or declaration to apply for citizenship for your underage children.

Release – Loss – Retention – Determination

This Application Finder will help you find the right application. Answer the questions, and the Application Finder will take you to a page that explains the application requirements that you need to meet. On the same page, you will find a list of the documents you need to attach to your application. When you have found the right application, you can proceed to the online service Enter Finland to fill in the actual application form.

We built the Application Finder to help you. Your answers will not be recorded or saved.