The Finnish personal identity code is individual to its holder and is intended to be permanent. You can be granted Finnish citizenship under certain conditions by submitting an application for citizenship to the Finnish Immigration Service. You must apply for citizenship separately. When a person is registered in the Population Information System and issued a personal identity code this does not mean that they are granted Finnish citizenship. Registration will require a personal visit to the authority in question. With certain limitations, you can also be given a home municipality in Finland and a permanent address.ĭepending on your situation, you can ask to be registered and to be issued a personal identity code at a local register office, at a tax office, at a Finnish foreign mission or at the Finnish Immigration Service. If you move to Finland for a short period of time, your information can be entered into the register if necessary. At the same time, you will be issued a personal identity code. If you are a foreign national and you move to Finland permanently, you will be registered according to your own wishes in the Finnish Population Information System. Submitting a declaration of citizenship does not require a personal visit to the Finnish Immigration Service.
No personal visit to a service location of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency is required, as a request for registration can be submitted to a Finnish foreign mission or be posted directly to the local register office.ĭepending on the situation, a child can be granted citizenship directly pursuant to the law or a declaration of citizenship can be submitted to the Finnish Immigration Service. Registration will require supplying a legal birth certificate and, where necessary, other official information.
It is enough that one of the parents is a citizen of Finland. The hospital provides the necessary details of all births to the national Population Information System, and when the child’s birth is registered, a personal identity code is issued for him or her.įor a Finnish citizen born abroad, a personal identity code is issued when the local register office, by request of the parents, registers the child in the Population Information System. Parents of newborn children born in Finland need not take any measures to obtain a personal identity code for the child.
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