Finland will pay 5,300 euros to refugees who return home

The Finnish Ministry of the Interior has issued a new regulation on assistance in the voluntary return of refugees to their homeland. This is reported by the press service of the ministry.

According to the new regulation, the voluntary return grant is €5,300 if the application is submitted within 30 days after notification of the first negative asylum decision or withdrawal of the application. If the application is submitted after 30 days, the amount of the grant will be reduced to €2,000. The assistance provided is a one-time payment.

“According to the new regulations, the division into benefit groups has been eliminated. The amount of assistance has been made the same for representatives of all countries,” the message notes.

Assistance for voluntary return can be provided in the form of financial support for travel and reintegration costs or in the form of auxiliary aid.

In-kind aid is a service or equipment that allows returnees to, for example, receive training or start a small business.

Assistance will not be provided if you move to another EU or Schengen country, or to a country whose citizens do not need a visa to travel to Finland.

By the end of this summer, more than 53 thousand refugees from Ukraine received temporary protection status in Finland.

We remind you that the Norwegian government has allocated 1 billion kroner (84 million euros) for humanitarian support to Ukraine through specialized Norwegian organizations. Since the beginning of the general war, Norway has allocated more than 4.5 billion kroner (almost 380 million euros) for humanitarian support in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in neighboring countries.

As we have already written, citizens of Ukraine, a couple, flew to vacation on the Canary island of Tenerife with money that the Norwegian government allocated to them as refugees.