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Who has to take kansalaisuuskoe, and the three ways around it

Not everyone applying for Finnish citizenship will sit the test. There are exemptions, and there are qualifications that show the same knowledge without it.

Ages 18 to 64Exemptions existTwo qualifying alternatives
Download on the App StorePractise in your browser On Google Play in the first week of September.

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Who it applies to

Two qualifications that show the knowledge instead

Migri names these as ways of demonstrating knowledge of Finnish society without the test. If you already hold one, the test requirement is not a new obstacle for you.

Exemptions

Migri has said exemptions may be granted for reasons of health or disability, or for other very serious reasons. It has not published how an exemption is applied for, what evidence it takes, or who decides. That process is one of the things still to come.

What the test will cover

Migri describes it as key legislation governing life in Finnish society, fundamental and human rights, Finnish history and culture, and questions of equality including equality between the genders. That is the full published description and it is deliberately broad, because the study material that will make it concrete has not been published yet.

Our Finnish practice questions are grouped into eight areas. Those eight are ours, read off the subject areas the amended Act names. They are not Migri's chapters, because Migri has not published any, and we will redraw them when it does.

That was ten. There are 3,000+ more.

335 of them are Finnish, across eight areas we grouped ourselves from the subject areas the Citizenship Act names, with a mistakes deck and spaced repetition. There is no mock and no pass line: Migri has published neither a length nor a pass mark, and we will not invent one.

Written by Belong Nordic from the subject areas the law names — Migri has published no study material yet, and the real test will not look exactly like these.

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