Flawed visa pages found in Finnish passports

Defective visa pages found in few Finnish passports in which the visa page watermarks are the wrong way around, police said.

Police have been notified about three such Finnish passports while five similar cases were reported by the travel agents, said a press release issued by National Police Board on Monday.

The passports in question are so-called ‘moose passports’, which are easily recognisable from the running moose depicted on the visa pages.

The passport version was issued between 2012 and 2016.

The error is easy to spot by examining the visa pages against the light. The swan watermark on some of the visa pages is the wrong way around.

Police, however, said that if any passport has the aforementioned production error, it is a genuine and valid travel document.

Problems could arise with border checks abroad, due to the error but Finnish border officials are aware of the passport production error.

Police also urged the holders of such flawed passports to take the passports to the Police department and collect new passports at free of charge.