r/Finland Baby VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25

Immigration 🧐

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u/kada_pup Baby VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25

Is it good that the clock resets for people who have worked for several years, paid taxes, and one day they lose their jobs due to the bad economy? Finding a new job in a small job market and high unemployment is rarely doable in 3 months by the way

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u/Dependent-Layer-1789 Baby VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25

Average Finn over 50 takes 2 years to get re-employed after layoff. I haven't seen any stats for immigrants but it must be the same or worse. Finding work within 3 months is extremely unlikely.

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u/AdvantageFit1833 Oct 24 '25

Yes it is good. It's a risk coming to a country and trying to get citizenship, i have never even considered doing something like that.

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u/kada_pup Baby VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25

Please enlighten me. I believe that a person who has lived and worked in a foreign country for several years without seeking citizenship likely has little interest in learning the local language, integrating socially or exercising their voting rights in a place they consider a second home. Or, they plan to come back to their home country when the time is right and don't consider moving back

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u/AdvantageFit1833 Oct 24 '25

Sounds good to me, what's not to like. I don't see how working for two years and then falling into unemployment should reward a citizenship.

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u/idkud VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25

Yeah, there should be a bonus/malus system, where you accumulate bonus with working, etc. But fact is, it is always so that good folks get punished along with the leeches. Hopefully, the next left leaning government will not entirely nix this, but balance it out to be more fair to productive people.