Helsingin Sanomat has a story about a German woman who has moved to Finland with her 12-year-old Finnish-German dual citizen son — but cannot get her residency rights approved by the immigration authorities.
"Isabel" moved to Helsinki with her son "Max". She's separated from the boy's Finnish father, who remained in Germany, and wanted to move to Helsinki to give the boy better exposure to his Finnish roots and the Finnish language.
Isabel is in the film industry and currently between projects, after her previous job ended in August.
Max started at the German school in Helsinki and is enjoying it, but his mother has been unable to claim residency rights for herself by registering as an EU citizen.
The immigration authorities have told her that she would need to have lived with her son in a third EU country, so that he would have exercised his right to free movement under EU legislation, to have automatic rights to residency in Finland.
Migri also told her she should not officially move to Helsinki but instead spend 90 days at a time in the city, spending a day in Tallinn every three months to avoid exceeding the maximum time allowed in the country.
Her son, therefore, would officially live alone in Finland. Authorities have told her verbally that EU freedom of movement rights don't apply to her, they might reject her application, and after that she could apply via the process for non-EU citizens — and she would then be accepted.
Attendance record
Russia's assault on Ukraine forced a shakeup in many parts of Finnish society, not least ice hockey. The country's biggest club, Jokerit, found their Russian-owned arena and place in Russia's KHL untenable, and left that competition.
They are now heading back to the Finnish league, via the second-tier competition Mestis. Although their home arena is not usable due to its sanctioned oligarch owners, Iltalehti reports that they are set to break an attendance record on Friday when they play at Helsinki ice hall.
On Wednesday, the club announced they had sold some 7,300 tickets for the game against Kiekko-Vantaa.
That beats the previous record of just under 7,000, which was set by Kiekko-Espoo when Jokerit played them earlier this season.
Weather turns colder
Ilta-Sanomat says that the unseasonably warm conditions Finland has basked in at the end of September may be coming to a close.
For the next couple of weeks there will be colder than normal weather in the north, while the south will have typical autumnal conditions — so cooler than the summery weather we've had in September.
There could even be a touch of frost overnight leading to Friday morning, offering a hint of what Finnish winter has to offer over the coming months.
19.21: Updated to clarify that the mother is a German citizen.
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