I just received the decision (positive) about my residence permit for studying. Took around a week and a half from the time I visited the embassy. However, I'm aware that the manufacturing and shipping process of the rp can take anywhere from 2 to 3 weeks to arrive at the embassy. School starts on August the 20th and I'd hate to miss the first week. Would it be possible to enter with my passport (I don't require a visa) and show the residence permit decision sheet to the immigration officer and explain that as soon as the card arrives in my home country, a family member will send it to Finland via DHL. Will ѕhit get real if I arrive in Finland with no return ticket? I guess I could also purchase a round-trip flight and just not use the return ticket.
Any advice?
Waiting for the residence permit in Finland
Waiting for the residence permit in Finland
Last edited by dzammes on Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Waiting for the residence permit in Finland
Try to copy OP's "!"#¤%", ѕhit.tummansininen wrote:Edited to add: I am very amused that MY rendering of the s-word was automatically filtered and the OP's was not. Clearly I have a potty mouth
This is because he didn't type the whole word in English letters. In his word, only "h", "i", and "t" are English letters, while the "ѕ" isn't. Try to select this "ѕ" between the quotes, copy it, and paste it in Google it. Compare the result to simply Googling the letter s.
See? Neat, isn't it?
I've seen some websites where you type in a profanity and it would give an alternative version that looks exactly like the original word but with different letters.
TL;DR He used the Cyrillic letter Dze instead of the English letter S, which look exactly the same, but are different letters to a computer, and computer code is stupid

Every case is unique. You can't measure the result of your application based on arbitrary anecdotes online.