Husband in army - financial support for family?

[EP]

All the men who have done their military service are reservists (up to certain age, I don´t remember how old). Should they be needed it makes no difference if they have family or not.

[EP]

OK, I checked the age limit, it is 50, for officers 60.

[Upphew]

All the men who have done their military service are reservists (up to certain age, I don´t remember how old). Should they be needed it makes no difference if they have family or not.

So that is the reason of merging municipalities... mayors can't be mustered.

[-Kielo-]

And BTW if you have British nationality then I assume you will come here as an EU citizen (just forget your Aussie passport at home) - so you won't have "temporary" residency you will get a KELA (social security) number straight away due to your husband being Finnish. Same as me, Brit married to a Finn, it was quite painless.

Do your children have British / Finnish passports too? They will also get "local" ID when they arrive in Finland.

That's great news about the KELA number, thanks Penelope. However, my daughter is an Australian citizen and my British nationality can't extend to her because it comes from my mother (she was born in England and then moved to Aus). Would there be any problems considering she doesn't have EU nationality? Or the does the fact that she has a Finnish father kind of 'cancel it out'? It's possible for me to register her on the Finnish population system as a half-Finn from here in Australia so maybe I should do that before we go (if that would even help).

[FinnGuyHelsinki]

You sound like my husband My guess is you are over 50, a reservist in the army (or you indulge in some kind of para-military hobby) and Russia is not top of your list of places to visit before you turn 60

I was merely stating facts, for better or worse the current system is what it is, and it would make no sense whatsoever to willingly eradicate the basis of it. Rather the whole system should be changed, if changes are done.

[Rip]

That's great news about the KELA number, thanks Penelope. However, my daughter is an Australian citizen and my British nationality can't extend to her because it comes from my mother (she was born in England and then moved to Aus). Would there be any problems considering she doesn't have EU nationality? Or the does the fact that she has a Finnish father kind of 'cancel it out'? It's possible for me to register her on the Finnish population system as a half-Finn from here in Australia so maybe I should do that before we go (if that would even help).

If her father is a Finnish citizen, so is she under the Finnish law. Download the form and send the requested documents to the embassy:
http://www.finland.org.au/public/defaul ... ture=en-US
(and preferably do it now)

[-Kielo-]

If her father is a Finnish citizen, so is she under the Finnish law.

That is fantastic, thank you so much!