Finnish Visas

[Seulfille]

Hullo all, I was wondering if anyone had ever applied for a visa at the Embassy of Finland before? If so, do you know what sort of visas they give? I know they only offer Single Entry Schengens. But do they only give them for the dates you have booked your holiday, or something like a 30 day time frame?
I am hoping to use the visa to go to Greece for a week rather then go to Finland for the two days I have booked, and there's going to be a big problem if I can't do that.

[dzug]

If you've got the visa, surely it tells you on it? If you haven't got it yet, you should really be applying to Greece instead.

[Seulfille]

To clarify, I've applied for the visa, but haven't got it yet. By the time I got the flight details it was too late to apply to Greece. If I can't use the Finland visa then I won't get my passport back in time to get any other, so it's a bit of a worry.

[Buenchico]

This is the second question you've posted about this matter but you've not mentioned your nationality.

Since this site is UK-based, the majority of people who post here are British citizens. Any citizen of an EU-member country has the right to travel to any other EU country without visa restriction so, if you're British, you don't need a visa for Greece (or for Finland).

The next most common group of visitors to this site are probably those from the US. US passport holders, however, don't need a visa to travel to Greece. In fact, the citizens of most countries, from which large numbers of tourists travel from, don't require a visa for entry into Greece. These include Australia, New Zealand, Japan and many other countries. See here for a full list:
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/practicalinfo/a/g reecevisareqs.htm

If you're sure that you do need a visa, then a visa issued by the Finnish embassy is definitely valid (for a stay of up to 90 days) for any Schengen country, including Finland. It's almost certain that the visa won't specify a specific date for entry into a Schengen-member state but the easiest way to check would seem to be phone the Finnish embassy (in whichever country you made your application).

Chris