Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
I know the US requires you to enter on your US passport if you have one. Does Finland have a similar rule that you fell afoul of?
Finland doesn't. Lots of people -- Finnish and otherwise -- have a right to enter Finalnd without a passport.
As a US-citizen, HEL passport control has the record for slowest average processing time per passenger when I'm existing the Schengen Zone.
Even for EU/EEA/CH passport users, the self-service machines at HEL have a high enough failure rate that it helps show how HEL has a slower manual processing of EU/EEA/CH passport users than is the case at any and all other Schengen hub airports for a major carrier with US-bound service.
Finnish passport control is a mess way too often in the late afternoon. I should know. I was there within the past 24 hours.
