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Finlex, oikeusministeriö

Maintains the text in force

Finland's state legal information service, run by the Ministry of Justice. It publishes the Suomen säädöskokoelma - the statute series, where an Act takes effect on publication - and, separately, the ajantasainen consolidated text of each Act with later amendments worked into it. Every statute carries an ELI identifier that states the date of the consolidated version, so the cut-off is on the page rather than inferred: the Aliens Act 301/2004 was read at http://data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2004/301/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin. The site is bilingual by law and serves Finnish and Swedish texts of the same statute at the same address; Finnish is the language quoted here. It also carries unofficial English translations under /lainsaadanto/saadoskaannokset/.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto

Cannot be cited for

The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

The statute series is published continuously as Acts are signed; consolidated texts are updated afterwards with a lag. Finnish immigration and nationality law moved four times between October 2024 and June 2026, so this is a publisher to re-read on events rather than on a calendar.

Re-check triggers

any amendment to the Aliens Act 301/2004 or the Nationality Act 359/2003 · a new government decree under section 72(4) of the Aliens Act, which sets the employee-permit salary threshold · 1 January 2027, when the citizenship exam under chapter 3 a of the Nationality Act takes effect · the January adjustment of the 40,000 euro permanent-residence income under section 56 a(6) of the Aliens Act · any amendment to chapter 5, section 4 of the Unemployment Security Act, which carries the general salary floor for work permits · a change of government

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