Finnish Immigration Service’s forms have been revised

The Finnish Immigration Service’s residence permit application and citizenship application forms have been revised. The new forms have be taken into use on Monday, 11 January 2010. There have also been changes in the processing fees of applications from the beginning of this year.

In accordance to the new decree placed by the Ministry of the Interior the processing fee of the first-time residence permit has been raised from 200 euros to 225 euros. The processing fee of the first-time residence permit for study purposes has been raised from 100 to 125 euros and the processing fee of the first-time residence permit for a minor applicant from 55 euros to 80 euros. The processing fee of the first-time residence permit for an employed person is 250 euros at the present.

The new application forms for residence permits can be printed from the Finnish Immigration Service’s website. The old forms are no longer available, but if someone has printed out or stored one of these, a residence permit application, a citizenship application or a citizenship declaration made on these forms will still be accepted at Finnish diplomatic missions abroad until 28 February 2010. After this point, only the new forms will be accepted.