Counselling of Free Movement is available through pre-booking every Wednesday evening at Lymy (Pengerkatu 6). You can reserve a slot through email (vapaaliikkuvuus(at)gmail.com) or Facebook. The Free Movement offers counselling to migrants and their supporters. In counselling, we discuss, for example, the asylum process and the threat of deportation as well as the process of […]
November 2021
15.11.2021
Counselling open in Helsinki
Two stories about the asylum interview
Both legal changes and the tightened policy lines of the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) have weakened the legal position of asylum seekers, and emphasised the significance of volunteer networks. The quality of asylum interviews (the time when asylum seekers can present their case to the authorities) has also suffered because of these developments. To make […]
Residence permits now – 6 years is too long to wait! “We came to Finland in 2015 to seek asylum. 6 years, we have hold our breath and waited. 6 years is an inhumanly long time, we are tired to wait. Some of us have children, who’ve been to Finnish schools for five years, some […]
