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Finland - Cancel a Passport


Procedure

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  1. To cancel your passport, go to a service point of a local police at any locality.
  2. Report the case and state the reason for your request of cancellation.
  3. Surrender or return your passport to the police station.

Note:
The law only makes it possible to return a passport to the holder after it has been cancelled in the event that it has notations made by a foreign authority that are necessary for the holder (such as a visa). The importance of such notation by an authority will be assessed in each case. Such as stamps made in a passport on arrival in or exit from a state would not, however, be considered as important notations by an authority.





Required Documents

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  • passport or identity card (for proof of identity)






Office Locations & Contacts

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To find a local police station to your area, click on the link below:
Police Contact Information: https://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/www/contactus





Eligibility

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Cancellation for a passport can be done in any of these events:

  • the passport holder loses or is released from his or her Finnish citizenship
  • cancellation is requested by the passport holder
  • the passport holder reports the passport as lost or stolen
  • the guardian (or the Social Welfare Board) cancels consent to issuing a passport to a minor
  • the Social Welfare Board demands the cancellation of the passport of a minor who has been taken into care or
  • the passport must be destroyed under the Lost Property Act
  • there is an obvious error in the passport
  • the passport has been defaced, its data has been altered or it has other markings than those made by an authority
  • after the passport has been granted, issues have emerged which would probably result in a rejection when issuing a passport
  • the passport is being used by a person other than the one to whom it was issued
  • the Population Registration Centre has cancelled the electronic certificate or
  • there is reasonable cause to suspect that the passport holder has died in a natural disaster, other catastrophe or as a victim of crime.




Fees

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Validity

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A passport is valid for 5 years.




Documents to Use

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Sample Documents

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Processing Time

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Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
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Instructions

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Please provide instructions on obtaining the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.




Required Information

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A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.





Need for the Document

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A passport can be cancelled in several circumstances. It is cancelled by the police department or other authority having granted it.




Information which might help

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A person may only have one valid passport at a time. If the police or other authority issuing passports makes a new decision on issuing a passport, the previous decision will expire.




Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.





External Links

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Others

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More information which might help people.




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