{"id":163,"date":"2022-12-12T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2024-12-23T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:22:45","slug":"about-unhcr-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/about-unhcr-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNHCR in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are&nbsp;FREE OF CHARGE&nbsp;for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution.&nbsp;We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Finland, UNHCR supports the national authorities in executing its duties in line with international and European standards. UNHCR is not part of the asylum procedure in Finland. The asylum procedure in Finland is under the responsibility of the Finnish Immigration Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR in Finland is part of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/neu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNHCR\u2019s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries<\/a>, based in Stockholm (Sweden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not found the information that you were looking for on this \u2018HELP\u2019 website, please feel free to contact us via phone or email:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Phone:<\/strong> ?\u00a0<strong>+46 10 10 12 800<\/strong>\u00a0(Monday\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Friday, 10.00-12.00  Stockholm time)<br><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Email:<\/strong>\u00a0? <a href=\"mailto:swestprotection@unhcr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swestprotection@unhcr.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\"><strong>If you don\u2019t speak English or Swedish<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only answer calls in English or Swedish, you can send us an e-mail in your&nbsp;<strong>preferred language<\/strong>&nbsp;explaining your situation, and we will reply. Our reply will, in most cases, be in English, but we encourage you to use&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;if you have difficulties understanding it or send us another e-mail asking us to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are&nbsp;FREE OF CHARGE&nbsp;for temporary protection beneficiaries, asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and stateless persons. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution.&nbsp;We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures. In Finland, UNHCR supports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/finland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}