Applying for Citizenship 2024

[riku2]

I thought the same too about the cancellation of the residence permit/card.
Please share your experience when you have already come to Finland

My experience of going through the schengen border at helsinki airport after I got citizenship and before I got a finnish passport (with a residence card and non EU passport) .. nothing was different to before. I showed my passport and residence card, they scanned both. No questions. No comments about my situation. Same experience when leaving and when coming back to Finland.

Considering they took 9 months to process my application I could not be bothered to submit my travel plans for every trip during 9 months (and there were more than a dozen) on the chance they award citizenship during one of the trips. In the end they granted it when I was in Finland but 3 days before a trip outside schengen.

[Maisa]

Hello,
My husband got decision.
03/01/2024: Viasited migri and recieved diary number
04/10/2024 13:00 Application in process and the decision comes after 15 mins.
thank u all and wish u all best!

Hi,
Can you tell when did he submit the application? Did it have diary number with 2023 or 2024?

Application submitted : 1.1.2024.
Visited migri and got diary number: 3.1.2024.

[Auringon_kukka]

Hello,
My husband got decision.
03/01/2024: Viasited migri and recieved diary number
04/10/2024 13:00 Application in process and the decision comes after 15 mins.
thank u all and wish u all best!

Congratulations

[Auringon_kukka]

Hi, another one of my contacts received their decision today. Posting the details here for everyone else to know

Received the decision today
FYI:
28.12.2023: Application submitted.
29.12.2023: Visited migri and received the diary number.
1.10.2024: status changed from waiting to processing !
4.10.2024: got decision.

Congratulations

[quillcentaur]

Hello,
My husband got decision.
03/01/2024: Viasited migri and recieved diary number
04/10/2024 13:00 Application in process and the decision comes after 15 mins.
thank u all and wish u all best!

Hi,
Can you tell when did he submit the application? Did it have diary number with 2023 or 2024?

Application submitted : 1.1.2024.
Visited migri and got diary number: 3.1.2024.

Big congrats!! I’m so excited. I submitted my application 8 days after you. Crossing my fingers I’ll get a decision soon.


I’ll update the forum when that happens!!

[bn05]

Hello,
My husband got decision.
03/01/2024: Viasited migri and recieved diary number
04/10/2024 13:00 Application in process and the decision comes after 15 mins.
thank u all and wish u all best!

Hi,
Can you tell when did he submit the application? Did it have diary number with 2023 or 2024?

Application submitted : 1.1.2024.
Visited migri and got diary number: 3.1.2024.

Thank you for the response, much appreciated.

[bn05]

Hi,
Can you tell when did he submit the application? Did it have diary number with 2023 or 2024?

Application submitted : 1.1.2024.
Visited migri and got diary number: 3.1.2024.

Big congrats!! I’m so excited. I submitted my application 8 days after you. Crossing my fingers I’ll get a decision soon.


I’ll update the forum when that happens!!

I submitted 2.1 and received diary no 3.1, fingers crossed will update if something happens.

[hayaled]

Hi everyone,

First message in this forum although I was checking this topic every day for the past 9 months:)
All of the people sharing their experience here kept me away from anxiety and now it is my turn to give some positive news.

I got the positive decision today for the citizenship.

Came to Finland in 2019 with A type permit with a job offer.

Online application: 02.01.2024
Visited migri office: 03.01.2024
Diary Number received: 03.01.2024
Diary Number: xx/310/2024 (one of the first applications in 2024 )
Nationality: Non-EU

Processing began at 7 am and got the positive decision at 8 am.

[bn05]

Hi everyone,

First message in this forum although I was checking this topic every day for the past 9 months:)
All of the people sharing their experience here kept me away from anxiety and now it is my turn to give some positive news.

I got the positive decision today for the citizenship.

Came to Finland in 2019 with A type permit with a job offer.

Online application: 02.01.2024
Visited migri office: 03.01.2024
Diary Number received: 03.01.2024
Diary Number: xx/310/2024 (one of the first applications in 2024 )
Nationality: Non-EU

Processing began at 7 am and got the positive decision at 8 am.

Congrats

[Auringon_kukka]

Hi everyone,

First message in this forum although I was checking this topic every day for the past 9 months:)
All of the people sharing their experience here kept me away from anxiety and now it is my turn to give some positive news.

I got the positive decision today for the citizenship.

Came to Finland in 2019 with A type permit with a job offer.

Online application: 02.01.2024
Visited migri office: 03.01.2024
Diary Number received: 03.01.2024
Diary Number: xx/310/2024 (one of the first applications in 2024 )
Nationality: Non-EU

Processing began at 7 am and got the positive decision at 8 am.

Congratulations

[phungxuanton]

Hi everyone,

First message in this forum although I was checking this topic every day for the past 9 months:)
All of the people sharing their experience here kept me away from anxiety and now it is my turn to give some positive news.

I got the positive decision today for the citizenship.

Came to Finland in 2019 with A type permit with a job offer.

Online application: 02.01.2024
Visited migri office: 03.01.2024
Diary Number received: 03.01.2024
Diary Number: xx/310/2024 (one of the first applications in 2024 )
Nationality: Non-EU

Processing began at 7 am and got the positive decision at 8 am.

Congrats!!

[phungxuanton]

How long does application normally move from stage 2 to stage 3 if not few hours? my application from 02.01.2024 (diary numner on 03.01.2024) moved to stage 2 on Friday 04.10.2024 and now it just stuck there I'm a bit worried it would take long

[tonitonitone]

@phungxuanton Mine was stuck in processing hell for 3 weeks.

My application went to In Progress on 18.9.2024. Exactly 2 weeks later, they sent an email asking if I traveled since I started my application and also what was my source of income since then (I had left my previous job to start freelancing). I received a positive decision today. So almost 3 weeks for processing, and a total of 10 months for my application.

I've lived in Finland since 2017.

Submitted application: 19.10.2023
Visited migri office: 20.12.2023 (I was out of the country when I received my YKI test results, so I had to delay my Migri appointment)
Diary Number: 16xxx/310/2023
Nationality: US

My queue numbers from Kamu chatbot:
31.1.2024 — 6654
17.5.2024 — 5229

My queue number was smaller than the usual reported during the time when the Kamu chatbot was still working, so I had optimistically hoped that it meant I was in the super short queue and would get my citizenship by April But it seems like the date when you received your diary number is the best prediction for the "normal" applications. Nothing else seems to matter. I think I would have gotten it within the day of the application going into processing, like the others here, if I had stayed at my previous full time job.

I think maybe when you know your application is going to be processed soon, you can already send additional information about your travel (especially, if like me, you have not travelled at all since I submitted my application, which I suppose is not normal) and income. For example, that you have not travelled and your income source is the same. So they will not be inclined to ask for more information.

[phungxuanton]

@phungxuanton Mine was stuck in processing hell for 3 weeks.

My application went to In Progress on 18.9.2024. Exactly 2 weeks later, they sent an email asking if I traveled since I started my application and also what was my source of income since then (I had left my previous job to start freelancing). I received a positive decision today. So almost 3 weeks for processing, and a total of 10 months for my application.

I've lived in Finland since 2017.

Submitted application: 19.10.2023
Visited migri office: 20.12.2023 (I was out of the country when I received my YKI test results, so I had to delay my Migri appointment)
Diary Number: 16xxx/310/2023
Nationality: US

My queue numbers from Kamu chatbot:
31.1.2024 — 6654
17.5.2024 — 5229

My queue number was smaller than the usual reported during the time when the Kamu chatbot was still working, so I had optimistically hoped that it meant I was in the super short queue and would get my citizenship by April But it seems like the date when you received your diary number is the best prediction for the "normal" applications. Nothing else seems to matter. I think I would have gotten it within the day of the application going into processing, like the others here, if I had stayed at my previous full time job.

I think maybe when you know your application is going to be processed soon, you can already send additional information about your travel (especially, if like me, you have not travelled at all since I submitted my application, which I suppose is not normal) and income. For example, that you have not travelled and your income source is the same. So they will not be inclined to ask for more information.

congrats!! My income source is the same from my full time job and also I updated my travel info every 6 months there

[quillcentaur]

My queue number was smaller than the usual reported during the time when the Kamu chatbot was still working, so I had optimistically hoped that it meant I was in the super short queue and would get my citizenship by April

The ones with smaller queue number than the general applicants were in the long queue, based on the stats we learned here. (Really missing chatbot now. It was so useful!)

Glad it only took almost a year for you (from application date) and not 2+ years though! Congrats!