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The call-up event is organised in order to have your identification information inspected and state of health examined as well as hear your own wishes concerning undertaking the military service. In addition, during the call-ups, decisions will be made on your fitness for service and the starting date and location of your conscript service. You will also receive information on the obligation to defend the country.

Prior to the call-ups, you will receive the Conscript Guide by post together with questionnaire forms and a call-up notice. Before the call-up event, you need to attend the preliminary medical examinations for persons liable for military service.

It pays off to prepare for the call-ups in advance by thinking about what exactly it is that you want from the military service. This involves giving it a though how you could utilise your own competence developed in the civilian life, and how the military service could be optimally beneficial to you as well. Please let the Call-Up Board know about your wishes concerning your military service.

Please draft a free-form application for being exempted from the call-up presence liability and send this application by post addressed to your own Regional Office.
Please send also a medical certificate of your son’s state of health by post addressed to your own Regional Office.

No, you don’t, as your call-up affairs will be dealt with in the call-ups on the basis of the call-up documentation that you have sent in advance by post addressed to the Regional Office.

Please fill out the questionnaire concerning military service and for the evaluation of your state of health, Application for changing date of entry into service/service location (form nr 7550-448-8728) available here as well as a certificate on studies as applicable.
In case you sustain a disease or an injury that will affect undertaking the military service, please include a medical certificate as documentation. (Note! The medical certificate must be on the FDF form (Medical examination form, nr 7550-448-8370) available here at puolustusvoimat.fi/en/forms.
Please send all the documentation by post addressed to your own Regional Office in advance prior to the call-ups.

Please get a medical certificate and submit it to your own Regional Office for the purpose of inspecting your fitness for service class. This medical certificate must comprise a medical practitioner’s statement on your fitness for service class as well as on your ability to complete the service. (NB.! The medical certificate must be on the FDF form (Medical examination form, form nr 7550-448-8370) available online here.
Send by the medical certificate by post addressed to your own Regional Office. After receiving the medical certificate, the Regional Office will then order you to attend an examination for determining your fitness for military service as organised by the Regional Office.

You may apply for service at the earliest during the year when you turn 18. You may apply for the July contingent of the ongoing year, as well as for the January and July contingent of the following three years. The brigade-level units of the Finnish Defence Forces and of the Finnish Border Guard feature a high number of service tasks available for the conscript service. However, please keep in mind that not all service tasks are available in every brigade-level unit.

Additional information on the voluntary military service for women can be accessed here.

You should apply for changing the service starting date in the Regional Office.

Please fill out the application form for changing the service starting date/service location, Application for changing date of entry into service/service location (form nr 7550-448-8728) by specifying the grounds for submitting this application. You can access the application form online at puolustusvoimat.fi/en/forms.
You must include in the application a certificate on studies that dates back no more than three months in maximum. If you are only about to begin your studies at this point, include a letter of approval by an educational institution.
Please send your application with its attachments by post addressed to your own Regional Office.

Before the service start proper, you will be asked to fill out a recruit questionnaire that allows you to voice your wishes regarding your service task of choice and the type of training that particularly interests you. Selections for some of the service tasks, such as military driver training, will take place towards the end of the recruit basic training period. If interested in special tasks available in, for instance, the communications and media branch, you can apply for these special tasks at the end of the basic training period. Please familiarise yourself with the service tasks online at varusmies.fi/en/service-titles.

Please fill out the amendment application form for changing the service starting date and/or service location, Application for changing date of entry into service/service location (form nr 7550-448-8728). Fill out the application form carefully and state in your own words the need for this change. You can access the application form here.
Please send your substantiated amendment application for changing the service starting date and/or service location by post addressed to your own Regional Office.

Before starting the military service, it really pays off to start getting fit. You can test your present fitness level online at MarsMars.fi. This program provides you with an upwards advancing training programme. In fact, the three-month-long bespoke fitness programme has been tailored for prospective conscripts to take before they enter the garrison premises.

The Finnish Defence Forces will primarily approve recently issued medical certificates on the specific FDF form, Medical examination form (form nr 7550-448-8370), available for the purpose available online here. The medical certificate must be on the FDF form for the health inspections concerning the call-ups as well as the voluntary military service for women.

When you have applied for non-military (civilian) service but realise that you do not want to complete the liability for military service in the form of a non-military service, you may apply for a transfer back to conscript service. Prior to starting the non-military service, you may reapply once back to military service. The Civilian Service Centre will approve the application if you state in your application that your conviction no longer prevents you from undertaking the service in accordance with the Conscription Act. Please note that you may not file this application once you have started your non-military service, or following the year during which you have turned 28. Additional information available by the Civilian Service Centre can be accessed online here.

I will attend the call-ups this coming autumn. What exactly does a call-up event involve?

Where do I look up the information indicating the date of my call-ups?

I forgot my own call-up day, which was supposed to have been today? What do I do now?

A compelling reason will affect me on the call-up day, such as, for instance, taking a matriculation examination exam on a given subject. May I be absent from the call-ups?

I am studying on a locality other than Helsinki where the call-up is ordered to take place? What should I do?

My son is severely developmentally challenged, and yet he has now received a call-up notice letter with the post. How do we proceed from here?

I live/study abroad. Do I have to attend the call-ups?

I forgot the set date for the examination of fitness for military service (i.e. an examination event organised by the Regional Office), and I’m afraid the said date was yesterday. What am I supposed to do now?

In the call-ups I have been positioned in class C on the basis of my fitness for service. I view myself to be fine now and would like to enter military service. What do I need to do next?

In the preliminary medical examination for persons liable for military service, the medical practitioner stated that I should be granted exemption from military service (class C). Do I still need to attend the call-ups?

I would like to undertake the voluntary military service for women. How do I apply?

I should postpone the starting date of my conscript service, because I have started studying at a university/I must finish my studies. What should I do?

I cannot find the application form for deferment. Where can I access this form?

How do I get to serve in the service task of my preference?

I am facing problems with my health/I am awaiting an operation, and my conscript service is due to begin. How do I get this sorted out?

I’ll be starting my military service in January and am now in September wondering whether I still can travel overseas during the remaining of this year?

I am due to start the conscript service a year from now in the summer, but because of my current life situation, I would very much like to start already earlier? How do I proceed?

I seem to be unable to find my order to enter service. Where do I get a new one?

I am unsure about my own physical fitness level at present. How can I become fit before the military service?

Which type of medical certificate will be approved by the Finnish Defence Forces?

Is it possible for me to switch from non-military (civilian) service to conscript service instead?