FINLAND GRANTED RESIDENCE PERMIT TO 4409 FOREIGN NON EUROPEAN STUDENTS OUT OF TOTAL 4693 AT THE END OF OCTOBER THIS YEAR WHICH MEANS ACCEPTANCE RATE OF 94% AND IN 6% REJECTION ONLY REASONS BEING LACK OF MEANS OF SUPPORT WITH AVERAGE PROCESSING TIME IS 20 DAYS 14TH NOVEMBER 2013 Students have become the second largest group of people applying for Finnish residence permits, after family members. By the end of October this year, 4,674 applications for student residence permits were submitted by citizens of countries outside the EU and EEA, accounting for 26 per cent of all residence permit applicants. In the same period, the Finnish Immigration Service made a decision on 4,693 student residence permit applications. A positive decision was issued to 4,409 individuals, 94 per cent of the applicants. The most common reason for a negative decision was a lack of means of support. Many student residence permit applicants use the Finnish Immigration Service’s online application service, but almost half of them still submit their applications in the traditional way, on paper. Almost all student residence permit applicants reside abroad, and the online application service thus significantly speeds up the decision-making process. The average processing time for a student residence permit application in the period from January to September this year was 20 days.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:41:01 +0000
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