Restrictions to Finnish Border Traffic

At midnight on Thursday, March 19 restrictions to Finnish border traffic come into force. Please keep them in mind when planning any travel to Finland.

THE FINNISH BORDER GUARD GUIDELINE as of March 19, 2020:

AT INTERNAL BORDERS, MEANING TRAFFIC BETWEEN FINLAND AND ANOTHER SCHENGEN STATE, THE FOLLOWING IS ALLOWED:

1. Return to Finland:
   1. Finnish nationals and their family members
   2. Nationals of other EU and Schengen countries, who are residing in Finland and their family members
   3. Third country nationals residing in Finland with residence permit
2. Returning transit traffic to other EU or Schengen country or via them:
   1. Nationals of EU and Schengen countries and their family members
   2. Third country nationals residing in another EU or Schengen country with residence permit
3. Necessary cross-border work traffic and other necessary traffic, which is:
   1. Healthcare and rescue service professionals/personnel, health researchers, and elderly care professionals
   2. Transport personnel and other transport staff to the extent necessary
   3. Workers, who based on permanent employee relationship work daily in another country and returns back to the country of residence at least once a week, taking into consideration local circumstances and natural travel-to-work area
   4. Diplomats, staff of international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers in the exercise of their functions
   5. Necessary (return) transit and returns
   6. Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons
   7. Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons
   8. Other necessary and justified traffic. For example, other necessary traffic would be maintenance work, that requires maintenance team or a person arriving from another country and this work cannot be postponed

AT EXTERNAL BORDERS, MEANING TRAFFIC BETWEEN FINLAND AND NON-SCHENGEN COUNTRY, FOR EXAMPLE RUSSIA, IS ALLOWED:

1. Return to Finland:
   1. Finnish nationals and their family members
   2. Nationals of other EU and Schengen countries, who are residing in Finland and their family members
   3. Third country nationals residing in Finland with residence permit
2. Returning transit traffic to other EU or Schengen country or via them:
   1. Nationals of EU and Schengen countries and their family members
   2. Third country nationals residing in another EU or Schengen country with residence permit
3. Exit of third country national
4. Necessary traffic, which is:
   1. Healthcare and rescue service professionals/personnel, health researchers, and elderly care professionals
   2. Transport personnel and other transport staff to the extent necessary
   3. Diplomats, staff of international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers in the exercise of their functions
   4. Necessary (return) transit and returns
   5. Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons
   6. Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons
   7. Other necessary and justified traffic. For example, other necessary traffic would be maintenance work, that requires maintenance team or a person arriving from another country and this work cannot be postponed

Questions?  Please visit the web site of The Finnish Border Guard(Link to another website.)

For up-to-date information on the Covid-10 Pandemic at the World Health Organization web site(Link to another website.), Canadian updates and information at the Public Health Agency of Canada web site(Link to another website.) and for Finland, the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare web site.(Link to another website.)