Digital and Population Data Services Agency (The Finnish Digital Agency)
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency promotes the digitalisation of society, secures the availability of data, and provides services for the life events of its customers.
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency leads the way, reforms society and supports citizens in their interaction with public administration. Our aim is to further promote the smooth functioning of Finnish society. Digitalisation is one important way to achieve this.
Our agency launched on 1 January 2020 with the merging of the Population Register Centre, the Local Register Offices and the Steering and Development Unit for the Local Register Offices, which operates at the Regional State Administrative Agency of Eastern Finland.
We operate courageously to reform, support and appreciate.
We create trust and care about the future.
Digitalisation partner with a vision
In society, we act as a trendsetter that operates courageously by reforming, supporting and appreciating. For our customers and partners, we are a reliable and desirable partner with a vision.
Through networking actively, we strengthen confidence in society. Our goal is to make Finnish society run even smoother.
Our values are courage, appreciation and trust
Guided by our values, we make decisions open-mindedly, we encourage self-direction among our experts, and we make fast progress.
In our operations, we value diversity, have respectful conversations, and nurture competence. All our operations are guided by mutual trust and a constant will to improve. To become even better, we evaluate ourselves and our operations constantly.
We operate on a national level
Our agency has over 800 employees and we operate in 36 towns all over Finland.
Our operating model is national; citizens can visit any service location they choose.
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- Individuals
- Processing times
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Life changes while living abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Marriage concluded abroad
- Partnership registered abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of citizenship
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Submitting foreign documents
- As a foreigner in Finland
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
- Digital support for citizens
- Organisations
- Certificates
- Updating customer registers
- Sampling services
- Search services of the Population Information System
- Local Register Office Register search services
- Extracts from registers
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital support
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- Finnish Authenticator identification service
- About the agency