SITUATION SINCE 19 MARCH 2020
AT INTERNAL BORDERS, MEANING TRAFFIC BETWEEN FINLAND AND ANOTHER SCHENGEN STATE, IS ALLOWED:
1. Return to Finland:
- Finnish nationals and their family members
- Nationals of other EU and Schengen countries, who are residing in Finland and their family members
- Third country nationals residing in Finland with residence permit
2. Returning transit traffic to other EU or Schengen country or via them:
- Nationals of EU and Schengen countries and their family members
- 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:
- Healthcare and rescue service professionals/personnel, health researchers, and elderly care professionals
- Transport personnel and other transport staff to the extent necessary
- 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
- Diplomats, staff of international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers in the exercise of their functions
Necessary (return) transit and returns - Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons
- Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons
- 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:
- Finnish nationals and their family members
- Nationals of other EU and Schengen countries, who are residing in Finland and their family members
- Third country nationals residing in Finland with residence permit
2. Returning transit traffic to other EU or Schengen country or via them:
- Nationals of EU and Schengen countries and their family members
- Third country nationals residing in another EU or Schengen country with residence permit
3. Exit of third country national
4. Necessary traffic, which is:
- Healthcare and rescue service professionals/personnel, health researchers, and elderly care professionals
- Transport personnel and other transport staff to the extent necessary
- Diplomats, staff of international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers in the exercise of their functions
- Necessary (return) transit and returns
- Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons
- Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons
- 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
ATTENTION: Normal construction work or similar is not considered as critical and necessary work and workers are not allowed border crossing.
ATTENTION: If the tasks are considered as critical and necessary work the employee needs in addition to normal travelling documents (passport, visa):
• a contract of employment
• a document from the employer explaining the critical and necessary aspects of the work
• a phone number to a employer´s contact person. The Border Guard will ask for more specific information about the criticality of the tasks
Based on Finnish Border Guard interpretation on 19 March 2020.
