{"id":287,"date":"2005-02-01T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2005-02-01T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T12:46:42","slug":"going-for-round-4-permanent-status-here-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Going for Round 4 &#8211; Permanent Status here in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yeppers.. I went today to renew my visa permits for living \/ working here in Finland at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polisi.fi\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Police<\/a> and thought I would, from previous experience, stay there waiting in line for my number to be called after many many hours, but to my amazement, I was only there for roughly 2 1\/2 hours..  I went for permanent residence since now that I am married to Hanna, it helps greatly, not to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\" target=\"_blank\">WORK Factor<\/a> as well.<br \/>\nI also hand written a speed up request to get my visa and passport return to me sooner rather than later (up to 6 months waiting period for permanent applications).  The Immigration officer handeling my case was very nice and extremely helpful and gave suggestions of many things that I should do while waiting for the acceptance and approval for my visa status.<\/p>\n<p>Lets see what happens.. more to come on this issue for sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yeppers.. I went today to renew my visa permits for living \/ working here in Finland at the Immigration Police and thought I would, from previous experience, stay there waiting in line for my number to be called after many many hours, but to my amazement, I was only there for roughly 2 1\/2 hours.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}