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Which country is your wife from (or where is she travelling to for the wedding)? I am assuming it is a non-Schengen country. Depending on that, there could be a few points where there could be scrutiny. 1. Immigration in your wife'sö home country (or wherever the wedding is). 2. At the airline coun...

I have a question about my wife's situation. Her brother will have a wedding in the first week of July, and she has to go. But her residence permit's end date is 17th July. We already applied for an extension, but still in progress, and it seems she won't get it new one before she leaves. Is there ...

If you think bringing someone with you will help, do that but make sure you are the one doing the speaking. Why? There shouldn’t be any issues letting someone else speak also. I say that because from my experience Migri prefers and sometimes insists the applicant to speak for themselves. It is also...

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Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:07 pm

If you think bringing someone with you will help, do that but make sure you are the one doing the speaking.

Why? There shouldn’t be any issues letting someone else speak also.

Hello everyone! I am in Finland and have just submitted my request for residency permit as a third country national, spouse of a Finnish person. I have an anxiety disorder so to avoid a panic attack (I am very nervous about this) I would like to know what to expect exactly from the identification a...

I'm still applying for jobs (I work in IT) and according to the conditions of my Blue Card, I have three months of consecutive unemployment before it gets cancelled. Just a bit confusing whether I can just continue my application with the employer I put in when I applied, whether they'll just rejec...

the citizenship test is unlikely to be particularly hard to pass. Though it's worth saying (as I don't think I've seen this written about anywhere) that surely it'll only be offered in Finnish and Swedish, right? So on some level, even if a basic one, it'll be another language test indirectly. It’s...

This is just the first phase. There will be 2 more phase come to change the law. Citizenship test, income requirement etc etc. Correct. However, the citizenship test is unlikely to be particularly hard to pass. My guess is, it will be a piece of cake compared to YKI. It remains to be seen what the ...

I am interpreting a bit differently. I think it says that if you clear the language test it is 5 years from what is currently 4 years. So even if someone clears it in November, he or she can still go for citizenship after they complete 5 years provided they satisfy the other conditions. I'm not spo...

Recruitment agencies won't help much, outside IT there are not really jobs available for people who are not able to work in the local language. We have discussed this many times on this forum. There are other fields than IT (for example academia). Doesn’t mean that English speaking jobs would be pl...

I have to clarify one part about fine the parents, I would rather need to say there, let the parents be liable for the legal costs of the other party, because they made the decision to file suit. It just seems unfair to slap a debt onto a 5 year old of 35.000€ while the small child has not even any...

I have passed YKI in one module READING, can I apply already now with this result for Finnish citizenship? By the time application is in queue, I am going to take part YKI and pass the Speaking module as soon as I can. Is it even a logical approach ? Or I should wait for passing YKI requirement and...

If your grandfather was born in the USA, then he is a US citizen and not a Finnish citizen by birth-I don't think he would have qualified as a Finnish citizen since Finland did not allow dual-citizenship back then. You can certainly submit the application and see what happens I suppose. Did you ver...

I should have been more clear and need to rephrase the "discretion of the court" . An opinion piece from a judge at Yle.fi some years ago, stated that according to this judge, the court does not necessarily need to award reimbursement of legal costs if the difference between financial mea...

Further more, the court is not obliged to decide to have the losing party to pay the costs of the other party, this is at the discretion of the court. A child cannot take a loan from the bank even if the guardians try to, you would need permission from the DVV and they will refuse. Therefore the ab...