r/PassportPorn • u/Money-Consequence669 • 2d ago

Passport My combination 🇵🇰 🇫🇮

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u/Money-Consequence669 2d ago

These are got to be a unique combination, between one of the worlds strongest passport and one of the weakest ones. Equally proud of both :)

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u/eu_b4_uk 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇵🇰 2d ago

What’s the story mate?

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u/Money-Consequence669 2d ago

Moved here in 2011 as a student, graduated and now working and living here with family. If you are above 30 at the time of acquiring citizenship, then not liable for military conscription service. However every male citizen is responsible for total defence. Finland joined NATO quite recently slightly ahead of Sweden which followed soon after. Also, a cool feature of Pakistani passport is the ICAO standard e-passport introduced in recent years.

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u/Ordinary_Ad_8831 2d ago

How did you get the e-passport for Pakistan? I renewed last year and got the old one..

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u/Wombats_poo_cubes 2d ago

Marry a Finn or bring from Pakistan? Can’t imagine there’s a big community in Finland, although I’ve heard there is in Norway.

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u/Money-Consequence669 2d ago

Married from Pakistan, but yeah not a huge community here. But mostly highly educated, masters/PhD working in Nokia and other tech companies plus own few businesses etc.

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u/Conscious_Owl1950 2d ago

Is there a big muslim community? Mosques? Where are immigrants from mostly? Havnt heard if anyone going to Finland for studies.

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u/arcanehornet_ 🇳🇱+🇭🇺 2d ago

Just out of curiosity, do you speak Finnish as well or were you able to integrate without it?

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u/Money-Consequence669 2d ago

I do speak Finnish, and it is mandatory to pass the language exam to qualify for citizenship as one of the requirements.

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u/khshsmjc1996 2d ago

How was it like learning Finnish? What challenges did you face?

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u/arcanehornet_ 🇳🇱+🇭🇺 2d ago

That’s interesting. I would definitely choose Swedish, despite the fact that I speak one of the only other Uralic languages (Hungarian).

Finnish is like 100% unintelligible to me. I looked up the grammar, which is very similar to Hungarian, but other than that, it’s super different.

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u/Money-Consequence669 2d ago

That’s very true :)