Finnish identity card

Finnish identity card
The front and reverse of a Finnish identity card

The Finnish identity card (Finnish: henkilökortti/Swedish: identitetskort) is one of two official identity documents in Finland, the other being the Finnish passport. Any citizen can get an identification card. It is available as an electronic ID card (Finnish: sähköinen henkilökortti; Swedish: elektroniskt identitetskort), which enables logging in to certain government services on the Internet.

Driving licenses and KELA (social security) cards with a photo are also widely used for general identification purposes even though they are not officially recognized as such. However, KELA has ended the practice of issuing social security cards with the photograph of the bearer, while it has become possible to embed the social security information onto the national ID card.


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