Re: Scandinavia - passport necessary?
On Tue, 31 May 2005 20:21:25 +0300, "Markku Grönroos"
<kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
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>"Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> kirjoitti viestissä
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>> A. You said "There has not been a generic passport control for
>> decades." 1996 being less than a decade ago, perhaps I don't
>> understand what you are saying.
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>Why not ? It is as I have said.
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>> B. They certainly did stamp my passport in 1996, as well as my
>> wife's and daughter's, when we got off the Silja ferry in
>> Helsinki.
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>Alright then.
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>> C. I'm not Nordic. (Well, I suppose that I'm Nordic genetically,
>> but I don't carry a Nordic passport.)
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>Try to understand that being a citizen of a Nordic country has nothing
>whatsoever to do with it: no discrimination. There is no passport control
>and because there is no passport control the authority does not know who is
>a Finn, who is a Swede, who is a US american, who carries a passport of
>Burkina Faso.... The common factor with these nationals is that they go
>through the terminal to the Finnish/Swedish soil without passport checking.
>Such probing can take place but as that they are rare indeed. So, no generic
>passport control at ferry terminals.
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>You are fighting windmills here. Someone might wonder what are you doing so
>for. Do you take it so that you are in a position to challenge the Nordic
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The only thing I'm challenging is your comment that there has
been no passport control for decades for those arriving in
Finland from Seden.
On reflection, I realize it has been some time since I've
traveled directly between Nordic countries (unless Estonia has
succeded in being considered a Nordic country) and can't really
speak to the current situation.
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