Advantages of living in Finland

• There is Universal Healthcare. Like most European countries, Finland has universal healthcare. Everyone receiving medical treatment in the country can expect to receive excellent care without being billed for it.
• High-Quality Public Education. Public education in Finland is free to everyone, not just in primary school but also in university and doctoral studies.
• Crime is Low. Crime rates in Finland are extremely low, and in general, you can feel very safe in public.
• There are no Job Titles, there are job titles in the sense of having a certain task at work. But in an office space, there is no hierarchy or separation of workers.
• The Scenery is breath taking. Finland is an extraordinarily beautiful place. Sixty-six percent of the country is forested, with 40 national parks throughout the peninsula.

Work Permit, Permanent Residence Permits and Citizenship in Finland

Work Permit

1. Types of Visas
2. Short stay (C)
3. Long stay visa (D)
4. EU Blue Card
5. When applying for a work visa in Finland, you can’t do it from inside the country. If you’re in Finland on a tourist visa, you’ll have to leave the country and apply for a work visa from your home country. The requirements differ for employees and employers.

Permanent Residence Permits

Temporary Resident have lived in Finland for an uninterrupted period of 4 years with a continuous residence permit. He/she cannot be granted a permanent residence permit for studies or to look for work. Need to have had a continuous residence permit for 4 years without any interruptions between permits, meaning that you have applied for an extended permit before your previous permit has expired.

Citizenship

1. Eligibility
2. Should be at least 18 years of age and identity has been reliably established
3.  Should know Finnish and Swedish at least on satisfactory level.
4. Lived in Finland for past 5 years without interruption
5. Have no guilty of any crime and no restraining order has been issued against.

• Benefits of Finland Citizenship
• World-Class Healthcare
• Basic Unemployment Allowance
• Free Education
• Multiple Citizenship
• Visa-free entry in over 180 countries

People & Climate

People

The current population of Finland is 5,549,886. Finland is a Northern European nation bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. Its capital, Helsinki, occupies a peninsula and surrounding islands in the Baltic Sea. The Northern Lights can be seen from the country’s Arctic Lapland province, a vast wilderness with national parks and ski resorts.

Climate

In winter, the mean temperature remains below 0°C, but warm airflows can raise the daily high above 0°C at times. Winter usually begins in mid-October in Lapland and during November in the rest of Finland, though not until December in the southwestern archipelago. It thus takes about two months for winter to proceed from Lapland to Aland.

In spring, the mean daily temperature rises from 0°C to 10°C

In summer the mean daily temperature is consistently above 10°C. Summer usually begins in late May in southern Finland and lasts until mid-September. Summer in Lapland starts about one month later and ends a month earlier than the south coast.

In autumn the daily mean temperature remains below 10°C. Autumn begins around the last week of August in northern Finland and about one month later in southwestern Finland.