Stricter requirements for acquiring Finnish citizenship: the required period of residence to be extended
by championshuttler
Stricter requirements for acquiring Finnish citizenship: the required period of residence to be extended
by championshuttler
8 comments
this is good, longer RP period, criminal background check and especially LESS THAN A YEAR OF RECEIVING Kela benefit should be the standard. Finland and EU has long been giving citizenship for free like cheese sample.
This is going to hurt the tech industry, it’s already had enough to attract top talent to the country, making it harder to integrate will only cost employers more to tempt people to relocate.
Hyvä vaan.
As an aerospace engineer from the United States, having spent the last 6 years doing research in the niche topics of supersonic missile aerodynamics (a field of work that is practically inexistent here), I moved to Finland to be with my wife, hoping to eventually become eligible to work for the armed forces as a research scientist through my citizenship. I have recently been laid off after 2 years of working at perhaps the only company here that did any work in high-speed aerodynamics. It is becoming ever so evident that Finland is no longer welcoming of foreign citizens that hope to offer their knowledge and contribute to the growth of the country. I will unfortunately be moving out sooner than later.
I’ll come out and say it because someone has to. I think I’d feel resentful towards anybody that abuses social welfare unjustly. Though I don’t feel I would harbor any sort of special resentment towards immigrants. I see the logic in proposing laws that would make it easier to deport immigrants that show evidence of abusing the system. I get it, they’re trying to save money. However following the same logic I wish they were talking about and that there were also a way to justifiably deal with the local kela rat that’s been living off of kela the last 10 years, off to kaljapussi everyday raving about how immigrants are destroying the country. If this is about the fiscal effects of social welfare leeches I get it, if this is about racism on the other hand, that is another topic entirely. The problem I have know is that it seems harder for me to determine the current government’s intentions. Most of the time I’m just left feeling like immigrants are the easy scapegoat for the government’s mismanagement of the country’s affairs.
How exactly is this going from 5 years to 8? Seems to me that, in effect, it’s going from 4 years to 5.
Because, in all materials, you need to fulfill the language requirement. That was the case in the past, that’s the case in the future. And it required for 4 years previously. Now it will be 5.
What are the scenarios where it would take longer than 5 years?
Bummer, for me in particular, to have to wait the extra year. But I’ll be taking my YKI test just like everyone else. And one year isn’t that big of a deal. So I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
It seems that it is extending to 5 years instead of 8 as the language requirement is a must for everyone, or am I getting something wrong?
Any reason why you would need a citizenship once you have the permanent residency?