If you are applying for an extended permit or renewing your residence permit card or residence card, it is possible for you to avoid visiting a service point to prove your identity. Read more about the requirements: migri.fi/en/identification. Watch our ”Proving your identity without visiting a service point” guide video.

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Enter Finland for Counsels and Representatives

You can use Enter Finland for Counsels and Representatives if you are an applicant's attorney, legal counsel, guardian or representative. First you must create a user account in Enter Finland using strong authentication, e.g. internet banking codes. To do this, Enter Finland will take you directly to Suomi.fi and then you will be returned to Enter Finland. Once your account has been opened, you have to verify that you have the authority to operate on behalf of your client by sending a power of attorney document.

Through the service you can
- follow the status of your client's application
- send additional information regarding an application

- request for documents concerning your customers application directly to your Enter Finland account

-Receive supplement requests from the Finnish Immigration Service directly to your Enter Finland account and reply to the requests

This Service is for an applicant's attorney, legal counsel, gurdian or representatives. The service does not provide the possibility to make an application on behalf of a customer, receive a decision or make a complaint concerning a case.

1

Identify yourself

First, create a user account in Enter Finland for Counsels and Representatives using strong electronic identification. You can create a user account under “Create a user account as a counsel or representative” at the bottom of this page.

You can verify your identity using the following options:

Online banking identification
Mobile certificate
Certificate card
2

Submit a document proving legal proof of representation or power of attorney

You must provide proof that you can represent the applicant
Fill in the required fields in 'create new case' page
Attach signed proof of representation
Ask chatbot Kamu
3

Follow the application process online

Enter Finland for Advisors and Representatives checks the application status directly from the case management ststem of the Finnish Immigration Service. This way you can follow the application progress online yourself.

The typical application processing time for cases varies depending on the complexity of the case. You can check the estimated processing time from the processing time checker.

 

 

Enter Finland will notify you when your customer has received a decision. The decision is not provided to you through Enter Finland.

4

Supplement your client's application

Current features
- You can follow the processing status of your clients application.

-You can send documents to the Finnish Immigration Service directly through your Enter Finland account.

- You can request documents from the Finnish Immigration Service to be received through Enter Finland

- You can receive supplement requests direcly into your Enter Finland account and reply directly in the service

Identify yourself

Create a user account as a counsel or representative

Create a user account as a counsel or representative so that you can follow the processing of your client’s application and handle matters online with the Finnish Immigration Service.

Log in to the online service for counsels and representatives

You have already created a user account as a counsel or representative. Log in to follow the processing of your client’s application and to handle matters online with the Finnish Immigration Service.