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Population
Information System
Notice
of Moving
Immigrants
from Nordic Countries
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Registration
in the Population Information System
Everyone who has been registered in
the Population Information System will be given a Finnish
personal identity number (henkilötunnus). Register
Offices (Maistraatti) are the local population registration
authorities in Finland.
District registries maintain the population
register and local information services. Registered
data includes names, births, deaths, as well as foreigners’
registration notifications and Notices of Moving.
The Population Information System
also forwards changes of address and other data to the
Social Insurance Institution (KELA). After entry into
the Population Information System a KELA card, which
proves entitlement to social security, can be applied
for at the local KELA office (more
info.)
Immigrants who intend to stay in Finland
for longer than one year must notify the local Register
Office of their permanent residence. The Register Office
also needs to see your passport, a valid residence
permit and, if applicable, a marriage certificate and
birth certificates of children. Other information that
will be registered are e.g. name, date of birth, citizenship,
family relationships and address.
At the Register Office the immigrant
has to fill in and sign the form "Registration
Information on a Foreigner" and make an official
Notice of Moving. The permanent residence to be registered
will be the municipality (kunta) in which the immigrant
lives permanently. After registration the immigrant
is given a Finnish personal identity number, which can
be acquired at the Register Office one week after registration.
Foreigners staying in Finland less
than a year can also be entered in the Population
Information System if it is necessary for them in
order to be able to stay or work in Finland. In this
case they are given a personal identity number but
they will not be registered as permanent
residents of a municipality. The Registration
Office can only register the information if the person
comes personally to the Office and shows his passport,
or other document that proofs his personal data and
his citizenship. Before emigrating to Finland, it
is always advisable to contact the local registration
office in the home country for advice on what needs
to be done.
Local Register Offices (temporarily in Finnish only)
Contact Information: Population Register Centres
Postal address: P.O.Box 70, FI-00581 Helsinki, FINLAND
Office: Tynnyrintekijänkatu 1 C, Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 09 229 161
Fax: +358 09 2291 6795
E -mail: vaestorekisterikeskus@vrk.intermin.fi
More Info: http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi (Finnish,
English, Swedish)
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Notice
of moving
According to Finnish legislation you must submit
a notification of moving no later
than a week
after the day of your move, and no earlier
than a
month before the day of your move. You must always
make the notification if you move permanently into
a new home or if your temporary stay at another address
is longer than three months.
The easiest way to submit a notification of move
is to:
- call the Move Service Line on 0203
456 456 (service available in English)
- fill in the online
form *requires use of
Internet Bank
access codes, a Posti username, or a chip
ID card
You can also submit your notification of move by filling
in and posting the printable
form at Suomi.fi (also
available from your nearest local register office or
post office).
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Immigrants
from Nordic countries
From 1 January 2007, a new inter-Nordic
agreement on population registration has been applied
to moves within the Nordic countries – Finland,
Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland),
Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
If you are moving
to Finland from a Nordic country, you must
inform the local registration authority of your
arrival and present identification (passport, ID card
issued by the police or other
corresponding document) to the authority. When your
personal identity code or number is known, your details
are transferred electronically from the registration
authorities of the country of origin to the Finnish
authority.
The purpose of the new agreement is
to ensure that those moving within the Nordic countries
are registered in the population register of only one
country at a time and to prevent movers from not being
included in any Nordic population register.
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