Thanks for the update... Congrats to your friend.albacore wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:09 pma friend of mine got a positive decision today.
Applcation and identification mid feb. 2018 in Helsinki.
Second stage mid june
More info was requested on income and travels in late June, which was replied to in a couple of days.
Decision today.
Good luck with waiting everyone! Seems like migri employees are back to work after summer.
Finnish Citizenship application 2018
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Hey guys.
I have a few questions. But before I will tell my situation.
Aug 2014 to Oct 2015 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 40 days)
Oct 2015 to July 2016 (B permit with no trip outside Finland)
~ B Permit expired on 31 July, got some letter from Polisi on 5 Aug for legal stay and then applied and got decision on B permit on 8 Aug 2016
Aug 2016 to July 2017 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 32 days)
July 2017 to July 2018 (A permit with one trip outside Finland of 29 days in April 2018)
July 2018 - present (A permit and about to go on holidays for 3 weeks)
Questions:
- what is your opinion about when can I apply citizenship? As you can read above, I had one discontinuity in RP in July 2016. This makes me worried.
- I took vacation in April 2018 (mentioned above of 29 days) and i am going again for holidays in for 3 weeks next week i e. Aug 2018). Is it ok? Shall i be concerned?
I mean i am going again on holidays after 3 months of the previous one. Is it a problem?
- there are ofcourse small trips like 3-4 days in between all this description which are for work, leisure etc. Will that affect?
Really looking forward to some help.
Thanks
I have a few questions. But before I will tell my situation.
Aug 2014 to Oct 2015 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 40 days)
Oct 2015 to July 2016 (B permit with no trip outside Finland)
~ B Permit expired on 31 July, got some letter from Polisi on 5 Aug for legal stay and then applied and got decision on B permit on 8 Aug 2016
Aug 2016 to July 2017 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 32 days)
July 2017 to July 2018 (A permit with one trip outside Finland of 29 days in April 2018)
July 2018 - present (A permit and about to go on holidays for 3 weeks)
Questions:
- what is your opinion about when can I apply citizenship? As you can read above, I had one discontinuity in RP in July 2016. This makes me worried.
- I took vacation in April 2018 (mentioned above of 29 days) and i am going again for holidays in for 3 weeks next week i e. Aug 2018). Is it ok? Shall i be concerned?
I mean i am going again on holidays after 3 months of the previous one. Is it a problem?
- there are ofcourse small trips like 3-4 days in between all this description which are for work, leisure etc. Will that affect?
Really looking forward to some help.
Thanks
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Hello even if you forgot about this short interruption on 2016. I can see that you had B permit for 3 years which will count as only 1.5 of your continuous residence and then you had only one year on A permit.stud4035 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:47 pmHey guys.
I have a few questions. But before I will tell my situation.
Aug 2014 to Oct 2015 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 40 days)
Oct 2015 to July 2016 (B permit with no trip outside Finland)
~ B Permit expired on 31 July, got some letter from Polisi on 5 Aug for legal stay and then applied and got decision on B permit on 8 Aug 2016
Aug 2016 to July 2017 (B permit with one trip outside Finland of 32 days)
July 2017 to July 2018 (A permit with one trip outside Finland of 29 days in April 2018)
July 2018 - present (A permit and about to go on holidays for 3 weeks)
Questions:
- what is your opinion about when can I apply citizenship? As you can read above, I had one discontinuity in RP in July 2016. This makes me worried.
- I took vacation in April 2018 (mentioned above of 29 days) and i am going again for holidays in for 3 weeks next week i e. Aug 2018). Is it ok? Shall i be concerned?
I mean i am going again on holidays after 3 months of the previous one. Is it a problem?
- there are ofcourse small trips like 3-4 days in between all this description which are for work, leisure etc. Will that affect?
Really looking forward to some help.
Thanks
This means that you can only apply to citizenship after 1.5 year and not before.
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Thanks alot for the reply but can you please shed some light on my questions?
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It’s been 5 months and we are still in stage 1. Anyone else in similar situation?
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Yeah, 5 months too. Weird. Usually starts processing after 4 months max..
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I'm 19 months since application , in process 11 months and still I'm waiting for.
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I'm 4 months in (applied mid April), not heard squat. Still in waiting phase. No doubt July has delayed our applications more than if we were in winter for instance. So I'm not optimistic about hearing anything in August. I'd love to know how many staff work in this department. I think it's just one guy and he works part time judging by the backlog. Dealing with any Governmental department is infuriating in Finland.
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When I applied for citizenship , months ago I applied for permanent resident permit but I had totally wrong application form and my grounds had changed so I had to wait for a negative decision when I realized what mistake I've done so I could apply with the right form and with the right grounds (solved and I got my residence permit). This was the main reason for the delay and then I totally forgot to cancel my appeal since I fixed myself the whole mistaken story , so also that forgotten appealing done it's own work for delay and now hopefully I haven't forgot anything so after this summer and their vacations would start processing it normally and give a decision
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Ok. I wish you good luck.Presaron wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:10 pmWhen I applied for citizenship , months ago I applied for permanent resident permit but I had totally wrong application form and my grounds had changed so I had to wait for a negative decision when I realized what mistake I've done so I could apply with the right form and with the right grounds (solved and I got my residence permit). This was the main reason for the delay and then I totally forgot to cancel my appeal since I fixed myself the whole mistaken story , so also that forgotten appealing done it's own work for delay and now hopefully I haven't forgot anything so after this summer and their vacations would start processing it normally and give a decision
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Right. I expected our application to move to stage 2 when they came back after the holiday (that is in the first week of August), but well. Most people i know got the result in 3-4,5 months.
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I applied in April and I am also still in Stage 1 after 4 months. I wonder how long more will we have to wait just to get to 2nd stage.....
On a different note, I made a short trip (4 days) to Russia after my application, do you think I need to/should inform about this trip? Or should I just update them if they ask me anything?
On a different note, I made a short trip (4 days) to Russia after my application, do you think I need to/should inform about this trip? Or should I just update them if they ask me anything?
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When your application goes on 2nd stage, they might ask you and then you reply. No need to do it now.
I applied in the middle of February and got on 2nd stage on July 23. Got request for travels during the time since I applied and also about finances while I was a student few years ago. Replied July 25th and still waiting for decision. Things seems to go really slow at the moment.
I applied in the middle of February and got on 2nd stage on July 23. Got request for travels during the time since I applied and also about finances while I was a student few years ago. Replied July 25th and still waiting for decision. Things seems to go really slow at the moment.