Open house at the Finnish Immigration Service on 2 October
The Finnish Immigration Service is arranging an open house event at 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Friday 2 October.
The programme includes brief fifteen-minute bulletins on subjects of the moment. Experts from all department units will also be on hand to present their work and answer any queries that guests may have.
Topics and timetable for the bulletins:
- 11.30 Iraq – a current review (Legal Service and Country Information Unit)
- 12.00 The nature of the asylum interview (Asylum Unit)
- 12.30 Marriages of convenience (Immigration Unit)
- 1.00 Language competence as a requirement for Finnish citizenship (Nationality Unit)
Department operations will be described at the general level during the event. Information will not be given on individual cases including personal issues under investigation.
The bulletins will be presented in Finnish, but experts will also answer queries in Swedish and English.
The venue for the event will be the Migration Library
The venue for the event will be the department’s Migration Library, situated in the Helsinki office at Panimokatu 1.
The library itself will also be shown to the guests. Apart from the theme day its doors are open at other times to all those interested: every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 3 p.m. The library contains a collection of around 10,000 volumes of literature on immigration, migration and topics related to countries of departure.
Part of the Year 1809 events
The Finnish Immigration Service’s open house event is part of the events ordered by the government to commemorate its 200th year. The beginning of the autonomous era in 1809 is one of Finland’s most important commemorative historical events.
The Ministry of the Interior will be holding its open house event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday 3 October at Kirkkokatu 12, Helsinki. The Ministry’s event will also include factual information on immigration, while Minister for Immigration and European Affairs Astrid Thors will be available to answer questions from 12–12.30 p.m. Questions may be submitted beforehand via the Ministry’s website (www.intermin.fi).
Further information for the press: Tarja-Riitta Nissinen, Director of Communications, tel. +358 71 873 0431
23.9.2009
