- 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
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- 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
- Permit to buy or sell a dwelling
- Permit for purchase or sale of real estate
- Permit for the partition or separation of property and the division of inheritance
- Renunciation of inheritance, for the surrender of one’s share of an inheritance or an agreement on the joint administration of an estate
- Engaging in trade or the establishment of a company
- Property management plan
- Pledging of property and for borrowing and lending
- Leasing or investing a client’s property
- Limited account or the management of the earnings
- 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
- 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
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Moving to Finland
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
Moving to Finland or moving abroad from Finland
When moving from Finland to abroad or from abroad to Finland you must make a notification of move.
Moving to Finland
You must make a notification of move to The Digital and Population Data Services Agency if you are moving to Finland permanently or living in a new address takes more than three months.
If you already know when you come to Finland that you will live here for less than a year, and then move back abroad, your move is temporary. In this case, you will be entered a temporary address in the population information system and you don't receive a home municipality from Finland.
It is also a question of temporary move when you intend to live in Finland for at least a year but the reason for coming is for example conscription and it is not intended to remain in Finland permanently.
If you plan to live in Finland for at least a year, it is advisable to report the move as permanent. In that case you will receive the benefits offered by the home municipality. If your intended temporary residence becomes permanent you must make a notification of move.
If necessary you can also notify a postal address that is different from your residential address.
When you move from the Nordic countries to Finland the notification of move must be made in person at the service location of the Digital and Population Data services Agency.
When moving to Finland from other countries, you can file a notification of move electronically if your information is already in the Finnish Population Information System. Otherwise, notification of move must be made in person at the service location of the Digital and Population Data services Agency.
Moving abroad from Finland
You must always submit a notification of move to Digital and Population Data services Agency if you are leaving Finland to move abroad.
Your correct address is important so that you can be informed about your voting rights in the Finnish national and EU elections. In addition, the Finnish authorities will reach you as quickly as possible if necessary.
When you move abroad for more than one year it is a permanent move. After this, you no longer have a home municipality in Finland. The move thus affects, for example, your right to vote in municipal elections and other rights tied to the municipality.
When you move abroad for less than one year it is a temporary move. In this case, your home municipality will remain in Finland with its rights and obligations.
In some situations emigration can also be temporary for more than a year. Such a special situation may exist if you have a closer connection to Finland than to your country of residence based on your living conditions. Even then, it is a matter of permanent emigration if the residence is intended to last or has already lasted for more than three years.
Contact us
Telephone
Telephone service from Monday to Friday 9–12
Telephone number 0295 535 188
Chat service
You can also contact us in matters related to moving via chat at our Facebook pages. Chat service is open Mon-Fri from 9.00 to 15.00. Only general questions on moving are handled through the chat service. The channel is not protected and consequently, other personal or sensitive information should not be given on the chat service. The chat service is also unable to answer questions on the processing of matters that are already pending.dsd
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Service locations
- Individuals
- 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
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- 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
- 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
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Moving to Finland
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
- Marriage
- Organisations
- Certificates
- Updating customer registers
- Sampling and analysis 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 security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
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