Monday, April 18, 2011

Finnish citizenship granted to 5,907 persons in 2010

Finnish citizenship was granted to a total of 5,907 persons last year. Of the total 3,961 obtained citizenship by application and 1,946 by declaration.

A total of 4,812 persons sought Finnish citizenship by application as compared to 4,417 in 2009. As with the previous year, the largest applicant groups in 2010 were Russians (1,385), Somalis (349), and Iranians (283). The largest groups among those who obtained citizenship by application were Russians, Estonians and Iranians.

A total of 573 persons sought Finnish citizenship by various forms of declaration (546 in 2009).

Some 94 per cent of the decisions on citizenship applications were positive, whereas 89 per cent of the decisions on citizenship declarations were positive.

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