Shayan Parsai

Course lead and course developer

I am the course lead for Kansalaisuuskurssi and I write the content: the chapter pages, the practice questions and the guides to the requirements. I have developed the course together with an expert in Finnish migration matters. The course is built on public sources, and every fact has a source at Migri, in the law or at another public authority.

Why this course

From 1 March 2027, people aged 18 to 64 who apply for Finnish citizenship have to show that they know Finnish society, and the citizenship test is one way to do that. Many details about the test have not been published yet, and that makes guesswork easy: made-up pass marks, "real test questions" that do not exist and test dates nobody has announced. I have seen the same thing in Sweden, where I built Medborgarskapskursen for the Swedish citizenship test. This course is built the same way: explanations in plain language, the difficult words explained, English pages so that you understand the content first, and clarity about what is known and what is not.

Background

I have built and write the online courses behind YK Kurser, which prepare people for the Swedish Transport Agency's knowledge tests for commercial traffic licences (goods, bus and taxi), and I work as an external transport manager for haulage and bus companies. The same way of working applies here: the material is updated when the rules change, not when a book happens to be reprinted. I am also building Logiktester, where you can practise for the logic tests used in recruitment.

Day to day I work as a Digital Growth Specialist at the digital agency Pigment, with SEO, paid advertising and analytics. That affects how the course is written: headings that answer the questions people actually ask, and texts that can be read on a phone on the bus.

How we work with facts

The Finnish citizenship test is new, and the details are still being published. That makes fact-checking the most important thing we do. Every figure, every date and every rule on this site has a source at Migri, in the law or at another public authority, and the sources are listed at the bottom of the page where the fact is used. If you find a fact without a source, that is a mistake, and we want to hear about it.

We only write what has been published. Migri has, for example, not announced a pass mark, a number of questions, a test time or a fee. So the site says exactly that, in plain words, instead of a guess dressed up as a fact.

The questions in the course are our own. We write them chapter by chapter from public sources, and every question has an explanation and a source so you can check the answer yourself. No question on this site is called official, because none of them is.

Before a chapter page is published, every statement is checked against the source, and legal references are checked against finlex.fi. Anything that cannot be verified is removed. When Migri publishes its study material, or something changes, we update the page, set a new "updated" date and explain the change in the news section. That way you always know which version of the rules a page describes.

Contact

Questions about the course can be sent via the contact page.