Finland Chat - Meet people when traveling in Finland on Nomad List

hello! I see everyone is sleeping here, quick question, is it possible to travel to Finland from UK? I've been looking into their gazillion border rules and restrictions and I believe that only essential travels work...but they consider relationship as a essential travel, so visiting your loved one. So can I ask a friend to be my fake girlfriend, ask her to write a letter or some sort of doc?

varmais6d

Eventhough they consider relationship as essential travel it's still open to interpretation based on.... something? gut feeling? So could go either way 🤷‍♂️

varmais6d

Oh for fucks sake these limitations

varmais6d

/en/guidelines-for-border-traffic-during-pandemic - you prolly checked the list already at Border control's website. `5.3 Interpretation guidelines restriction category 2` explains that:

> Additionally, relationships between people who live in different countries ("long-distance relationships") are accepted, as are other committed ways of being together.
> Fundamentally, border inspectors trust the words of travelers. More detailed information may be inquired in isolated cases. The regulations for entering Finland on a basis of a dating relationship apply to partners of Finnish citizens and to partners of EU/Schengen citizens residing in Finland and their family members as well as partners of third-country nationals residing in Finland with a residence permit.

varmais6d

Maybe that'll stick

mikeneves6d

yeah I saw that, UK falls under that group of restrictions, category 2, that's why I was asking, because that doesn't make sense, anyone can say that he/she has a relationship

mikeneves6d

"border inspectors trust the words of travelers"

varmais6d

Yeah

mikeneves6d

🤷‍♂️

mikeneves6d

well I sure hope they trust mine xD

varmais6d

🙂

oxyc5d

If you can, maybe it’s worth having someone write a fake letter of invitation as your girlfriend. Pre-covid I’ve twice written letters of invitation to Iranian friends who needed it for their visas and there were never any questions asked even if I wasn’t in the country. Might of course be different with covid but a LOI probably helps

mikeneves5d

cool, yeah thats what I'm going to do 🙂 thanks

oxyc17h

Hot tip for all the nomad Finns. Every second passport renewal can be done remotely as long as you have someone with a power of attorney who can pick it up at a post office/matkahuolto and ship it to you. Mine just arrived to Uruguay with DHL. I even took my own passport photo. Pretty awesome that it’s possible