Are you looking for the information about Finland residence permit process as a new student?
Then, you are at the correct place 🙂 You will find all the important and vital information about Finnish residence permit process from this blog. Here, I will describe all the stages step by step. You can follow this instructions to prepare your residence permit documents, sponsor’s documents and so on.
What will I do after getting a admission offer letter from university?
First step is to pay the tuition fees to your university from your account or from your sponsor’s acccount. If you do not get full payment information from the university, you can request to the university admission to send you full payment details of your tuition fees, so you can pay from the bank outside EU. When you have transfered tuition fees from your bank, you can request to the university to send you an payment confirmation certificate which is required when you make residence permit application to the EnterFinland.fi portal.
Second step is to show your living cost for a year in your personal bank account, note: it must be your account. What is the living cost I need to show on my account? According to the official website Migri, a student must deposit 6720 EURÂ or equivalent money in the local currency for a year in his/her personal bank account. Therefore, you must keep this amount of fund in your personal bank account until you get the residence permit decision. Now, how do you prove that you have this amount of money in your account? Yes, you must take a bank statement from your bank and upload it to your residence permit application. How long should be this statement? If it is a new bank account, statement has to be from the begining of the account creation to the lastest date. If the bank account of the applicant is a old account, applicant must provide at least 3 months bank statement. When you take this statement, request to the bank officer to provide you a bank solvency certificate.
Source of Funds: How did you get this 6720 euros and the tuition fees? Who paid you?
The source of the funds can be from your own business, or self employed jobs, or employment, or from your sponsor. Now, I bet you know better who is giving you that funds! In most scernio, students receive money from parents or relatives: they are your sponsor. Therefore, you need to collect the following documents from your sponsor based on their profession.
First, you must request your sponsor to get a bank statement from his/her personal bank for the last 6 months which includes the transfer of 6720 euros. So, don’t take statement before transferring 6720 euros in your account. Solvency certificate from the sponsor’s bank account is optional, not a mandatory requirement. Second, you must collect passport copy or NID copy from the sponsor.
Now, what type of profession sponsor does? Is it Job or Business?
Based on this, you need to collect documents from your sponsor.
Job or employment documents:
– Job certificate
– Salary slips last 6 months
– Work ID if possible (optional)
– TAX document involves (TIN, Tax return, Tax certificate)
Business documents:
– Business trade license
– Tax documents (TIN, Tax return, Tax certificate)
– BIN certificate
– Company bank statement
At last, your sponsor can write details of the business in a paper to clarify business details and income source. This is a optional document, but it will make life easier for the visa officers.
** If any of the documents are not in English, you need to translate them either English, Finnish or swedish and notarize them from a official place.
**Remember to purchase your mandatory student health insurance from this link below: Swisscare
Swisscare: https://forms.swisscare.com/#/isie?icd=2226
Author: Mahfuzul Haque
Helsinki, Vantaa, Finland.
