Current affairs

Consulate General of Finland will process passports and ID cards in San Francisco, CA on November 4-5 2019. The application must be submitted in person and by appointment only. 

Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will attend the 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC on 17–19 October.

Finland and the State of Maine on the North-East coast of the United States have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding on fostering exchange of information and cooperation in developing bioeconomy that is based on forests and the use of wood. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed today, on 10 October 2019, by the Prime Minister of Finland Antti Rinne and the Governor of Maine Janet Mills.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will visit New York on 23 August 2019.

The uniquely designed embassy building in Washington D.C. has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED® Platinum certification for the second time. In 2015, the Embassy of Finland was the first embassy in the U.S. to receive the prestigious Platinum level certificate from the United States Green Building Council.

To celebrate Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU we present a new Embassy Film Series. Come and join us for a movie night at the Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. every second Tuesday of the month this fall 2019! We will update the film schedule monthly. Welcome!

Please join FREE OF CHARGE bootcamp on August 28-29 at A Grid, Espoo. The days will cover a basic package of everything you need to know now, back home, before entering the US markets.