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Keflavík Airport

    Passport control

    Important information

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    Passengers travelling within the Schengen Area can do so without presenting a passport at border controls. However, they must carry a valid identity document (ID) to be able to prove their personal identity upon request. Therefore, it is important to carry passports at all times. More information on passport control below.

    Passengers travelling outside Schengen via the terminal, i.e. to the UK, Ireland or North America, must go through passport control on departure and arrival in Iceland. Further information on Schengen

    Routine check

    Regulation (EU) 2017/458 states that all travellers crossing the external border are subject to routine checks of their travel documents against certain databases of stolen, lost or invalid travel documents, including Icelandic and foreign databases (Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Documents database). All passengers must also be checked against the Schengen Information System database. 

    These changes can be expected to lengthen the average processing time for passengers crossing the border:

    1. Third-country nationals (foreign nationals who are not nationals of an EU/EEA/EFTA member state) intending to stay in the Schengen Area must present a travel document, which must be issued within the last 10 years to be considered valid.

    2. The validity of the travel document of any third-country national must extend at least three months beyond the date of departure.

    Traveling with expired passport

    For further information on how to apply for a new passport please visit the website of the District Commissioner's Office - Apply for new passport.