Registration

How to register? All what you need is to visit their offices and having you passport, your current address in Finland and to fill in an application. It is free of charge service and you will get your registration letters including your social security number after one week as a maximum. Please keep your social security number in safe place and do not give it unless the authorities request that. More information will be given in their office when you submit your application. 

• You can go to Maistraatti (Registration Office) to get social security number to be able to use public services such as health care and children’s daycare. The social security number can be applied for when one can proof that one live for a certain amount of time in Finland (on their webpage it was said to be around 1 year).  
• The social security number is a unique code that will be issued to you and the authorities will be using this number to access your data based on their interest such as banking, healthcare centers, and hospitals…etc. With the social security number, you will be considered as any Finnish person so that you can apply for a driving license, Finnish Identity card for foreigners, the right of working, taxation card…etc and without the social security number you will not get the benefit of the previous list (and additional lists too).