Lets see if you understand what Im trying to explain below...
Im a girl from S.America working for my boyfriend and his parents company. I have a work permit valid until june, and I will renew it for one year more.
My boyfriend and I will get married someday soon...we dont know the date yet...we have been living together for a year also and planning to have kids.
I have some questions Id like someone to answer...
- My boyfriend and his parents are the owners of the company of course, what will happen when I get married, Do I still have to renew my work permit to stay there working at their company...?? or will they only have to make a work contract?
- In case we have kids, Id like to take care of them for their first years --- and if I decide not to sign a work contract ...what will happen? do I appear as an unemployed?
- How do taxes work here? I have heard all ppl here pay taxes...what happens to a stay at home dad/mom? where would the money come from when you are a stayathome mom/dad?
- if you are just taking care of the babies and arent working, does kela gives you the unemployement allowance and the child care also? and you still have to pay taxes???
- I have heard for some of my friends that when you get married, you are suppose to take like an integration course, a course to know the finnish culture, the language, customes, etc....how does it really work? or it is just a language course? and that also Kela pays you for taking that course...Is it true?
Any more information you can offer me would be so thanksfully received! hehehehe...being an inmigrant and not knowing the language, your rights...makes it so difficult!!!
thanks in advance!!!
Linda
confused--workpermit,marriage,kids,kela,etc
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Re: confused--workpermit,marriage,kids,kela,etc
Well, if you are on unemployment benefit it means if there comes an open job you have to take it. For staying home theres some benefits, but where does the money come... drops from the sky? you should read the http://www.kela.fi and then the http://www.mol.fi => on the integration/immigration/maternity benefits and such. It is quite bureaucratical if you start going the wrong direction, but once you figure out the flow it is a bit more logical - the MOL has a pdf booklet about "working in Finland" that also explains the "system".
Cheers, Hank W.
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Re: confused--workpermit,marriage,kids,kela,etc
What I don't understand is why you are asking us for basic information.
Your boyfriend and his family own a company in Finland and should be able to get all the information you need.
And much of it is something you should plan together with your boyfriend anyhow.
So again why ask here?
Your boyfriend and his family own a company in Finland and should be able to get all the information you need.
And much of it is something you should plan together with your boyfriend anyhow.
So again why ask here?
Re: confused--workpermit,marriage,kids,kela,etc
Hi Linda,
Please do not take this the wrong way, but it would really help if you stuck to one of the threads you have opened instead of opening new ones asking basically the same questions.
Let's see if I can contribute (again) in a meaningful way:
-Once you get married, you can apply for a residence permit based on family ties (the marriage). You do not have to keep renewing your work permit if you do not wish to do so, i.e. you can switch to a family-based one.
-You staying home after the birth of children will not affect your position if you have a residence permit based on family ties. Unless you are actively seeking work (and able to accept any that is assigned to you), you are not unemployed and therefore will not receive unemployment benefits.
-You do pay taxes on all of your income, including (most if not all) KELA benefits. Of course, you pay taxes as a percentage of your income, so if you earn very little, you pay very little tax.
-Like I mentioned before (and like Hank told you previously), you will need to be able and willing to accept work at short notice to receive unemployment benefits. For stay at home mums KELA pays a maternity benefit and later, a benefit for taking care of the children at home (kotihoidontuki) and child benefit (lapsilisä). You do pay taxes out of these benefits.
-I have no information regarding the integration courses, I'm afraid.
Please do not take this the wrong way, but it would really help if you stuck to one of the threads you have opened instead of opening new ones asking basically the same questions.
Let's see if I can contribute (again) in a meaningful way:
-Once you get married, you can apply for a residence permit based on family ties (the marriage). You do not have to keep renewing your work permit if you do not wish to do so, i.e. you can switch to a family-based one.
-You staying home after the birth of children will not affect your position if you have a residence permit based on family ties. Unless you are actively seeking work (and able to accept any that is assigned to you), you are not unemployed and therefore will not receive unemployment benefits.
-You do pay taxes on all of your income, including (most if not all) KELA benefits. Of course, you pay taxes as a percentage of your income, so if you earn very little, you pay very little tax.
-Like I mentioned before (and like Hank told you previously), you will need to be able and willing to accept work at short notice to receive unemployment benefits. For stay at home mums KELA pays a maternity benefit and later, a benefit for taking care of the children at home (kotihoidontuki) and child benefit (lapsilisä). You do pay taxes out of these benefits.
-I have no information regarding the integration courses, I'm afraid.
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