Temporary protection: Finland

If you live in a reception centre, notify your reception centre immediately if your address or phone number changes. The Finnish Immigration Service will get your contact details from the reception centre. If you already are a resident of a municipality, make sure that your address is always up to date in the Finnish Population Information System. If your address in Finland changes, submit a notification of move to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (dvv.fi). The Finnish Immigration Service will get your address from the Population Information System. Send the Finnish Immigration Service your new contact details if your phone number or email address changes. Send an encrypted message to migri@migri.fi using the Finnish Immigration Service’s securemail.migri.fi service. How to make the notification Notify your reception centre: by telephone visit the reception centre; or send the notification as a letter by post The contact details of reception centres are available on our website at Reception centres. Notify your reception centre of your information and the information of your family members relevant to the notification: first name and last name date of birth Finnish Immigration Service customer number new address If this is the address of your workplace, mention also the name of your workplace, such as the name of the farm, so that letters will reach you. If your letter box has someone else’s name instead of yours, tell the name to the reception centre as well. new telephone number If you move from one reception centre to another or do not know your reception centre If you move from one reception centre to another, the Finnish Immigration Service is informed automatically. Therefore, you don’t need to notify the Finnish Immigration Service separately of your new reception centre's address. If you do not know which reception centre is yours, send your address and other contact details to the Finnish Immigration Service. Send your contact details by encrypted email to migri@migri.fi using the Finnish Immigration Service’s securemail.migri.fi service. Why is it important to give your address and telephone number? The correct address and telephone number are important so that: we can make a decision on your application and can send you your residence permit card and all decisions that affect you the processing of your application and your right to work will not end due to an expiry decision or due to a negative decision. If you do not give us the information that we are requesting, we will issue an expiry decision or a negative decision on your application for temporary protection. In such cases, your right to work on the basis of temporary protection will end on the day when the decision is served on you. your reception centre can reach you and you maintain your right to reception services. Making sure that the address details of unaccompanied children are up to date is important so that the necessary services can be organised for them.

Though temporary protection was extended to March 2028, preparations are also being made at the EU level to eventually phase it out. As the name suggests, this protection is a temporary measure and is intended to end when circumstances in Ukraine allow. In the summer of 2025, the Council approved exit recommendations as part of preparations to phase out temporary protection. No class of residence permit specifically for Ukrainians is being prepared at the EU level. More permanent stays in the EU will require applying for existing types of national residence permits, such as permits based on work, study or family ties. A total of about 7,500 Ukrainians have already done so in Finland. A total of 4,300 Ukrainians have been granted a residence permit on the basis of work and 2,800 on the basis of family ties. Inquiries: Tuuli Tuunanen, Chief Specialist, tel. +358 295 488 658, [email protected]

Reception allowance If you are an asylum seeker or have applied for or been granted temporary protection, you may get reception allowance. Reception allowance is money intended for the immediate basic needs of you and your family. You can be granted reception allowance if you or your family members do not have enough income and funds to cover your immediate basic needs, such as food and clothing. Reception allowance is not granted automatically. You can apply for the allowance from your own reception centre by filling in an application form. Your reception centre can give you the application form and instructions for applying. The reception allowance consists of the basic component and the supplementary reception allowance. The basic component of the reception allowance is intended for clothing, minor health care costs, expenses on the use of local transport, and telephone costs, for example. The basic component is also intended for food costs if the reception centre does not offer daily meals. In addition to the basic component, you can apply for supplementary reception allowance for the special needs of you and your family.