Current affairs

Always inform the Digital and Population Data Services Agency in Finland if your address changes.

Finland will hold its presidential elections on Sunday 28 January 2024. Advance voting will be possible in Australia and New Zealand from 17 to 19 January 2024. The election day for a possible second election (second round) will be 11 February 2024, and advance voting will be possible from 31 January to 2 February 2024.

Presidential elections will take place in Finland on 28 January 2024. Postal voting documents can be ordered from 28 October 2023.

At the presidential session on 20 October, the President of the Republic appointed an Ambassador to Canberra and non-resident Ambassadors to North Macedonia and Sri Lanka.

President Martti Ahtisaari has died at the age of 86.

Windows to the World returns to the Embassy of Finland on Saturday 21 October 2023. Everyone is welcome to this family-friendly event, a light-hearted way to learn more about the world’s happiest country.

Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs is planning to launch a tendering process for outsourcing its entry permit application submission services in 2024. As a preparation for the upcoming tendering process, the Ministry will survey the market in autumn 2023.

Some of the prices of services provided by the Finnish missions and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will rise. The new prices will enter into force on 1 September 2023.

Heads of Finland’s missions abroad and foreign policy leaders will meet again at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission in Helsinki on 21–23 August.

The Embassy of Finland in Canberra will conduct a passport mission to Adelaide and Perth in September 2023.