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28.01.2010
The Nationality Unit of the Finnish Immigration Service will concentrate on deciding on citizenship declarations from former Finnish citizens and their descendants between February and May.
The aim is to decide on all citizenship declarations for which necessary further information has been received in time by 1 June 2010. The concentration on declarations will naturally affect the queue of citizenship applications during the spring.
A total of approximately 21,500 former Finnish citizens or their descendants applied to have their lost citizenship restored within the five-year time limit provided under the current Finnish Nationality Act. Almost half of the declarations were submitted during the last five months at the beginning of 2008.
The flood of declarations at the last moment clogged the Nationality Unit of the Finnish Immigration Service to such an extent that the received declarations were only entered into the register in late autumn. This has also led to longer processing times.
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