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Finland

Self-employed residence permit (no DNV)

PR: Yesno programmeUTC+3

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
Up to 1 year, extendable
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No figure: Migri assesses business profitability and secured means of support (Aliens Act s.39); fee €750/€900.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: Business must be profitable and 'your means of support must be secured by your income from your business' - assessed by the Economic Development Centre (partial decision) then Migri; no euro figure on the permit page.

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Aliens Act (301/2004) s.39 secure means of support; Migri entrepreneur permit page.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Direct pathway. PR at 6 yrs on an A permit since 8 Jan 2026; 4 yrs only with income over EUR 40,000 or a degree/language condition.

Aliens Act 301/2004 provisions on the permanent residence permit as amended with effect from 8 January 2026, per Migri, the deciding authority: the base requirement is now six years' continuous residence, not four. Four years still suffices only where the applicant also meets one of the stated conditions - annual income above EUR 40,000, or a Finnish-recognised master's/postgraduate degree with two years' work history, or particularly good Finnish or Swedish with three years' work history. Only time on a continuous (A) permit counts; a temporary (B) permit does not. The row previously said four years flat, which the amendment made wrong.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Helsinki sits at 60.17° N, 24.94° E.

Finland picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC+3 Helsinki (Europe/Helsinki)

The country

Region
Europe · Nordic
Capital
Helsinki
Currency
EUR
Schengen area
Yes

Next door

1 of the 3 countries Finland shares a land border with is covered here.

All of them are in the Schengen area, as Finland is. For a visitor that is one clock, not several: the 90 days in any 180 are spent across all of it.

What it costs to live there

$2,376 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Finland spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Helsinki
$2,073 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,176
Tampere
$1,614 / month incl. rent
of which rent $819

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • Finnish official
  • Swedish official
  • English widely spoken
  • German common in cities

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for Finland in this dataset. What the row records about residence: PR at 6 yrs on an A permit since 8 Jan 2026; 4 yrs only with income over EUR 40,000 or a degree/language condition.

Enter Finland e-service ↗

Must register a Finnish business and pay Finnish tax; €490 fee.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .