Submit the application for permit extension to the police

Applications for extensions to residence permits are submitted to the police in the municipality of residence in Finland prior to the expiry of the existing residence permit. Contact your local police to find out which service point in the area provides licence services.

As a rule, the police will decide upon the granting of extensions to permits.

More detailed information relating to permit extensions, for example, the processing times, may be obtained from the police in the municipality of residence. If necessary, the police in your municipality of residence can also provide paper forms. The necessary appendices to the application for a permit extension are explained in Section E of either form. Contact details for police service points can be found at www.poliisi.fi.

Which forms should I use?

The permit extension is applied for using the same form as for the first residence permit application, providing the reason is

• adoption
• study
• employment (including specialists, researchers, athletes/coaches and interns)
• self-employment
• different family ties as in the existing permit
• other reason

The permit extension is applied using a separate form, if the existing permit was issued on the basis of any of the following

• same family ties as in the permit extension you are applying for (OLE_JATKO_PS)
• remigration (OLE_JATKO_A)
• Finnish origin (OLE_JATKO_A)
• international protection: residence permit granted on the basis of refugee status, subsidiary protection or humanitarian protection (OLE_JATKO_A)

If the existing residence permit was issued on some other basis than family ties (for example employment), but the permit extension is being applied for on the basis of family ties, the form used is that for a first residence permit on the basis of family ties.

The forms can be printed from the Finnish Immigration Service website under Residence permit application forms.