MFA: Limited reception of residence permit applications to resume in Finnish missions abroad

The situation and operating environments vary to a great extent in our missions in different parts of the world. Taking into account the current situation in the COVID-19 pandemic, some of our missions can serve residence permit customers fairly comprehensively starting on 16 June 2020, some can do so on a limited basis, and some missions can start to receive and process residence permit applications only later. Applicants, who wish to identify themselves for or to submit a residence permit application, need to make an appointment and contact the service number of the mission.

Priority will be given to customers who have booked an appointment but whose appointment had to be cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The end of the exceptional arrangements will be informed later.

Inquiries: Virpi Kankare, Director of the Visa Unit, tel. tel. +358 295 351 772 

The email addresses of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs are in the format firstname.lastname@formin.fi