The Finnish Immigration Service suspended making decisions on asylum applications from Syrians in December 2024 because of the considerable changes in the security situation in Syria. The Finnish Immigration Service will now resume issuing decisions for Syrian asylum seekers. The Finnish Immigration Service constantly monitors the security situation in different countries, as the most recent country of origin information is needed to assess the need for protection when processing asylum applications. In order to ensure decision-making of high quality, the Finnish Immigration Service maintains awareness of the security situation and its changes in different countries.
The Finnish Immigration Service examines all asylum applications individually. The most recent country of origin information is always taken into account when asylum applications are being processed. The decision-making regarding asylum applications from Syrians has recently been resumed in some other EU countries as well.
“As part of our decision-making, we have monitored the developments in the security situation in Syria both on national and international level. On the basis of country information, the security situation has stabilised to a level that allows us to resume the decision-making that was paused following the changes in the country information,” says Antti Lehtinen, Director of Department for International Protection.
At the moment, the Finnish Immigration Service has 320 pending asylum applications submitted by Syrians. The need for international protection is always assessed individually, taking into account the country information gathered both internationally and nationally.
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Antti Lehtinen, Director of Department for International Protection, email: [email protected], tel. 0295 433 037 (Finnish Immigration Service’s phone number for media representatives)
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