selecting student or racism in Finland?

[lita_febrian]

Hei, can you apply for a tourist visa for other schengen countries? It's a bit messy, but if you really want to study here, it's worth the trouble. You can go to Estonia as a tourist and take the ferry to Helsinki for example. I don't know how bad the situation is, but I hope you can still travel to schengen countries. Writing to school about this won't help tho. Good luck!

[caster]

Hei, can you apply for a tourist visa for other schengen countries? It's a bit messy, but if you really want to study here, it's worth the trouble. You can go to Estonia as a tourist and take the ferry to Helsinki for example. I don't know how bad the situation is, but I hope you can still travel to schengen countries. Writing to school about this won't help tho. Good luck!

Schengen visa system has some rules - A visa is issued for a reliable reason - and its same for all Schengen states - if you have a business in Germany, the German consulate will issue you the visa but you can use it to travel to other states covered under the agreement - and you are subject to travel to Germany first before traveling any other state. However, if you wish to study in Finland and applied in Finnish University - it is Finnish Consulate that will issue you (or the authoritative mission that deals finnish visa application on behalf of finnish consulate in absence of Finnish consulate)

Exception - if you have reliable travel history you may be issued with a C category Schengen visa by any Schengen state - in that case you need to have you destination sorted first.

Visa is not the guarantee for entry clearance - it is merely a secondary authorization to enter - the immigration officers have the authority to accept or reject upon your arrival.

If you have to eat food - you required to use your mouth even in case of toothache - unless you are a magician and can intake food in any hole and still digest

[Oho]

Hei, can you apply for a tourist visa for other schengen countries? It's a bit messy, but if you really want to study here, it's worth the trouble. You can go to Estonia as a tourist and take the ferry to Helsinki for example. I don't know how bad the situation is, but I hope you can still travel to schengen countries. Writing to school about this won't help tho. Good luck!

Being accepted into a study program is no guarantee of student residence permit nor should it be. If the authorities are not even willing to grant a tourist visa to attend entrance examinations I'd suspect they'd be even less keen to grant a residence permit to an applicant, who, from their perspective, defrauded the system to gain entry to attend the examinations.

As for applying for residence permit while staying on tourist visa, not that anyone asked for it, in my opinion those applications should almost categorically be archived in the trash bin immediately upon arrival.

[Oho]

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[lita_febrian]

Hei guys, thank you for the explanation. I thought, because there's no so-called entrance exam visa, one can: get into schengen area with tourist visa (surely with all required docs) > take the entrance exam > return to home country. How else one can get a short term visa for this purpose? I have actually a friend who did it last year. Of course, being invited/accepted does not secure a visa.

And by the was, Caster, these days we don't have to be a magician to "eat through a hole", just need to be a doctor/nurse

Thanks again for the insights guys! Have nice day.

[caster]

Hei guys, thank you for the explanation. I thought, because there's no so-called entrance exam visa, one can: get into schengen area with tourist visa (surely with all required docs) > take the entrance exam > return to home country. How else one can get a short term visa for this purpose? I have actually a friend who did it last year. Of course, being invited/accepted does not secure a visa.

And by the was, Caster, these days we don't have to be a magician to "eat through a hole", just need to be a doctor/nurse

Thanks again for the insights guys! Have nice day.

There is only one kind of Schengen Visa (single entry or multiple entry each for a short stay) granted that depends on various situations.

[Valentin]

Your English makes me skeptical that you fulfilled the requirements to be accepted to any of the universities in Finland.

[Beep_Boop]

Your English makes me skeptical that you fulfilled the requirements to be accepted to any of the universities in Finland.

Trust me, that's not his/her issues. You should have seen the atrocities I met when I was studying. I was in a constant state of shock as how they managed to even register for TOEFL.

[Flossy1978]

They probably didn't. Probably paid someone else to sit the exam, if it was done overseas.

[burak25]

Your English makes me skeptical that you fulfilled the requirements to be accepted to any of the universities in Finland.

Have you seen some exchange students? They are supposed to pass English test before being accepted and trust me there are some of them that can't speak at all. (I mean 0. Like wtf are you doing abroad if you can't speak anything?)

OP on the other hand, can take the exam with tourist visa (no law prevents that) but again needs to apply for Residence PERMIT in his home country(not visa). Getting permit or not, depends on many factors related to to his country vs Finland. He should consult other expats from his country. We cannot assume anything without proper information.

[caster]

He should consult other expats from his country. We cannot assume anything without proper information.

are you trying to finger the expats ... or pointing to he immigrants from OP's origin

[nazaninbadrkhani]

I'm from the same country as you Rahele but I got visa and went for entrance exam to Finland and now waiting for results . If you could apply for tourist visa you had more chance to get it . I talked to embassy before applying and I found that it would be a bit risky to apply via entrance exam invitation . Thats why i got a tourist visa and went to sit on entrance exam .

If you're still interested to apply for next semester simply get a tourist visa . You can also get a tourist visa from any other EU countries ( your sister may can help you as you said she is in Germany ) and go to Finland for exam .

[Beep_Boop]

I'm from the same country as you Rahele but I got visa and went for entrance exam to Finland and now waiting for results

Smart woman.

[Oho]

Smart woman.

Yeah, now only if an educational institution had the right to issue residence permits or to force the hands of the authorities who do. Well given that this is Finland perhaps they do but I certainly hope not.