Check the status of your electronic application online

If you have submitted your application via e-service you can check the status of your application online. Log in to the service and choose My applications from the menu on the left.

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If you have not submitted your application online, see the average processing times for applications from the bulletins below.

Average processing times for applications at the Finnish Immigration Service

It is difficult to estimate the exact processing times for applications. The processing times for individual applications vary to a great extent. The processing times are longer if further clarifications are required. Clear and simple cases are processed more quickly.

It takes approximately two weeks
for your residence permit card to arrive

A favourable decision on a residence permit or asylum application cannot be delivered immediately after it is made, because the manufacturing and posting of a residence permit card takes approximately two weeks. For the time being we must send residence permit cards for Russia, Kazakhstan and Israel by the courier service of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Card deliveries to the Finnish embassies in these countries will take longer, but generally no more than three weeks from the date of the positive decision.