VISAS: The following nationals DO NOT require a visa: Finland, for stays up to 3 months by holders of British passports with status `British citizen' & 'British nationals overseas', Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark (excluding Greenland & Faroe Islands), El Salvador, Estonia, France (including Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion), Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong (S.A.R. passports), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland Rep, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea (South), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (S.A.R. passports), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City & Venezuela.
For all nationalities, a UK residency must be in the valid passport in which the visa is to be placed. All visitors must hold onward/return tickets, documents required for next destination & sufficient funds for length of stay, except nationals of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland Rep, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden & United Kingdom. Members of the Schengen Visa Agreement should make enquiries prior to travel with the appropriate Embassies of the countries within the agreement which they plan to visit.
TRANSIT VISAS: Required by all except those as noted above and: persons continuing their journey to a third country within 24 hours without leaving the airport transit area, provided arriving & departing from/to a non-Schengen country & holding confirmed onward tickets & documentation (except nationals of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Congo Dem Rep, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia & Sri Lanka).
Transit without a visa is not available if any of the subsequent destinations or transit locations are a Schengen country requiring a visa. Therefore, as the passenger is entering the Schengen territory, which is a borderless territory, those nationals of countries requiring a visa for any Schengen state, which they are entering, require a visa at all times.
HEALTH: Participants of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC scheme) which allows visitors on short-term stays to other member countries to use the public health care sector for free or reduced-cost medical treatment and emergency care.
There are currently no compulsory vaccinations required.
Recommended immunisations: Tick-Borne Encephalitis.
WEATHER: In the south and central areas summers are warm and light. Temperatures range between 16-24°C but can reach as high as 30°C. Light rainfall in summer which falls as snow in winter. In the north snow cover is between mid Oct-late Apr or mid May, however, temperatures during the summer can become as high as in the south.

Travcour do not provide a service for this country.

Please contact the embassy at:
Embassy of Finland
38 Chesham Place
London, SW1X 8HW
tel: +44 20 7838 6200
fax: +44 20 7838 9703
e-mail: sanomat.lon@formin.fi
website: www.finemb.org.uk
hours: 0900-1200 (Mon-Fri)