{"id":155,"date":"2022-12-07T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:17:26","slug":"counselling-services-for-asylum-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/where-to-find-help-in-finland\/counselling-services-for-asylum-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselling services for asylum procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are in Finland and you need legal counselling in your asylum case, help to apply for state legal aid to appeal a decision, or have questions about the asylum or family reunification procedures in Finland, please&nbsp;contact our partner the Finnish Refugee Advice Center:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#abb7c230\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Finnish Refugee Advice Center (Pakolaisneuvonta)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Address: <\/strong>Pasilanraitio 9B, 00240 Helsinki, Finland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Phone:<\/strong> ? +358 9 2313 9325 (Monday to Friday, 10:00 \u2013 12:00)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0E-mail: <\/strong>? <a href=\"mailto:neuvonta@pakolaisneuvonta.fi\">neuvonta@pakolaisneuvonta.fi<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakolaisneuvonta.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Legal services for asylum-seekers and refugees<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Advice is generally available in Finnish and English<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Please be informed that UNHCR is <strong>not<\/strong> part of the asylum procedure in Finland and cannot provide legal advice to individual applicants regarding, for example, asylum or family reunification. UNHCR works with an experienced national non-governmental organisation, the Finnish Refugee Advice Center, which has staff members engaged in providing support and advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in Finland and you need legal counselling in your asylum case, help to apply for state legal aid to appeal a decision, or have questions about the asylum or family reunification procedures in Finland, please&nbsp;contact our partner the Finnish Refugee Advice Center: Finnish Refugee Advice Center (Pakolaisneuvonta) Please be informed that UNHCR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":152,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/1231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}