Applying for Citizenship 2024

[alex_inv]

Hi, was following this thread for a while in a read-only mode so would be a proper thing to share the stats from me now.

Applied for finnish citizenship on 06.08.2023, went to Migri for identification next day on 07.08.2023
Diary number 9351/310/2023, initial queue number 7568

Application went to "In Progress" on 04.01.2024
Application was processed on 26.01.2024 with the queue number 5281

Base stats: Four years on continuous employment A-permit, YKI-testi passed, Russian citizenship by birth.

[TUserFin]

based on migri website 80 percent of the rejections are because people are applying too early or trying to exempt from the yki testi

Hi. Could you share a link for this? I tried the stats page https://tilastot.migri.fi/#decisions?l=en but the reason for negative decision is not appearing. Kiitos!

I know what may impact also are serious traffic offenses: like serious overspeeding etc. small traffic fines do not affect decision though
Being sentenced to a small number of punishments consisting of less than 30 day fines, for example, will usually not prevent you from becoming a citizen.” https://migri.fi/en/integrity

I know that traffic offences might impact PR, but not sure how serious they should be, though I heard that people got negative decision recently because of that, i.e. I heard that traffic offences have bigger impact on PR than on citezenship.

[mipilvi]

It's so weird I got on stage 2 since November and still no decision. (..
Applied in July 2023
Current queue number 44xx

[TUserFin]

It's so weird I got on stage 2 since November and still no decision. (..
Applied in July 2023
Current queue number 44xx

Interesting how it works. What is exact day you applied? I applied 4th of July 2023, still stage 1 and queue 47xx

[mipilvi]

It's so weird I got on stage 2 since November and still no decision. (..
Applied in July 2023
Current queue number 44xx

Interesting how it works. What is exact day you applied? I applied 4th of July 2023, still stage 1 and queue 47xx

I came to service point on 7th July 2023.

I have a theory that somebody in Migri probably pressed "Move to stage 2" button for my application, went out for lunch and then complete forgot about it

[TUserFin]

It's so weird I got on stage 2 since November and still no decision. (..
Applied in July 2023
Current queue number 44xx

Interesting how it works. What is exact day you applied? I applied 4th of July 2023, still stage 1 and queue 47xx

I came to service point on 7th July 2023.

I have a theory that somebody in Migri probably pressed "Move to stage 2" button for my application, went out for lunch and then complete forgot about it

I heard about 2 similar cases. But you might still get it soon, I hear it might take 2weeks or 2 month... or more

[masshaa88]

It's so weird I got on stage 2 since November and still no decision. (..
Applied in July 2023
Current queue number 44xx

Interesting how it works. What is exact day you applied? I applied 4th of July 2023, still stage 1 and queue 47xx

I came to service point on 7th July 2023.

I have a theory that somebody in Migri probably pressed "Move to stage 2" button for my application, went out for lunch and then complete forgot about it

Same for me!
I applied on 4.07.2023
Visited Migri on 11.07.2023

Moved to the stage 2 on 01.12.2023
Still on stage 2 30.01.2024 (been on stage 2 already 2 months for no reason)

[quillcentaur]

I know what may impact also are serious traffic offenses: like serious overspeeding etc. small traffic fines do not affect decision though
Being sentenced to a small number of punishments consisting of less than 30 day fines, for example, will usually not prevent you from becoming a citizen.” https://migri.fi/en/integrity

I know that traffic offences might impact PR, but not sure how serious they should be, though I heard that people got negative decision recently because of that, i.e. I heard that traffic offences have bigger impact on PR than on citezenship.

I am more interested in the exact statistics from migri (what constitutes the negative decisions and the percentages). Since someone said it is on migri website but I couldn't find it.

[X6InhEswsi7lLAQ]

I am more interested in the exact statistics from migri (what constitutes the negative decisions and the percentages). Since someone said it is on migri website but I couldn't find it.

https://tilastot.migri.fi

[Auringon_kukka]

Hi, was following this thread for a while in a read-only mode so would be a proper thing to share the stats from me now.

Applied for finnish citizenship on 06.08.2023, went to Migri for identification next day on 07.08.2023
Diary number 9351/310/2023, initial queue number 7568

Application went to "In Progress" on 04.01.2024
Application was processed on 26.01.2024 with the queue number 5281

Base stats: Four years on continuous employment A-permit, YKI-testi passed, Russian citizenship by birth.

Congratulations!!!

[millenialpain]

I applied on the 4th of December and visited Oulu service point on the 5th of December. When I checked Kamu two or three Days later I was 8500 on the queue but as at today I am 7918 on the queue. We hope for the best and hope that within six months we will get a decision.

Noniin!
We are quite close in the que and approx. same application/service point visit date. I did things in Tampere so I guess service point really doesn't matter.

Did you get to stage 2 yet?

Hi, I applied end of December, 2023 and got queue number 86xx in 2.1.2024 and at the moment it is 85xx and it only moved only 150 places, but for you it moved 600 places in two months even though there was Xmas break.

I’m curious and frankly worried a bit, how your queue number progressed so much faster while mine is so slow. Could it be because I’m in a slower queue? Because it goes so slow and it seems with this pace I’ll be around 4000 queue after more than 2 years . Many people here on the other hand got to queue 4-5k after approx 6 months.

I would appreciate anyone helping me to make sense of this because it’s quite important for my case to get a decision by the end of summer.

[quillcentaur]

I am more interested in the exact statistics from migri (what constitutes the negative decisions and the percentages). Since someone said it is on migri website but I couldn't find it.

https://tilastot.migri.fi

You just linked what I already linked? I wanted to see statistics exactly about what Karhu was saying. "based on migri website 80 percent of the rejections are because people are applying too early or trying to exempt from the yki testi" That link is not showing anything about that. So I was asking for the link showing what he's mentioning...

[wb26]

I am more interested in the exact statistics from migri (what constitutes the negative decisions and the percentages). Since someone said it is on migri website but I couldn't find it.

https://tilastot.migri.fi

You just linked what I already linked? I wanted to see statistics exactly about what Karhu was saying. "based on migri website 80 percent of the rejections are because people are applying too early or trying to exempt from the yki testi" That link is not showing anything about that. So I was asking for the link showing what he's mentioning...

I couldn’t find anything stating 80% anywhere, but this link: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/syste ... _FINAL.pdf
does say the majority of rejections are for lack of language skills or insufficient residency requirements. I would be curious if anyone had actual number statistics though

[kriffer]

Hi all, it would be interesting to know if someone got the decision recently, I mean those who applied in summer 2022 and has/had residence as entrepreneur... It's would be useful for statistics and trends because afaik entrepreneurs, workers, family ties are in separate queues...possibly...
I am still waiting since june 22 and now in queue 19xx.

[X6InhEswsi7lLAQ]

You just linked what I already linked? I wanted to see statistics exactly about what Karhu was saying. "based on migri website 80 percent of the rejections are because people are applying too early or trying to exempt from the yki testi" That link is not showing anything about that. So I was asking for the link showing what he's mentioning...

fair enough, my bad. i misread