Two Years for a Convention Licence and One Year for Everything Else, Counted From the Population Register - and None of It Applies in Åland
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
147 exceptions recorded across 54 countries · none match Antigua and Barbuda to Finland · Driving and licence exchange
The Driving Licences Act sorts foreign licences into three boxes and gives each a different clock. An EU or EEA licence entitles you to drive here for as long as it is valid, with no Finnish deadline at all, and may be exchanged under the ordinary licence rules. A licence from a state party to the Geneva 1949 or Vienna 1968 road traffic conventions is accepted for two years from the holder's entry in the population register, and inside those two years it may be exchanged for a Finnish category B or motorcycle licence without a new driving test. Any other licence from a state Finland recognises, in categories A1, A2, A or B, is accepted for one year from entry into the country or from registration, and section 61 provides no exchange without a test except for diplomatic staff. Two further conditions catch people out. A convention licence issued while the holder was already normally resident in Finland is not merely useless for driving - section 60(4) says it is not valid in Finland at all. And sections 60 and 61 both exclude Åland by name, so what a foreign licence is worth there is a question for Åland's own law.
At a glance
- EU or EEA licence
- Valid here for as long as it is valid at home; no Finnish deadline
Section 59(1) of the Driving Licences Act. Exchange and renewal follow the ordinary rules on a driving licence permit.
- Convention-state licence
- Two years from entry in the population register
Section 60(3). Geneva 1949 (Treaty Series 11/1959) and Vienna 1968 (Treaty Series 30/1986).
- Exchange without a test
- Only for a convention licence, only for category B and motorcycle, and only inside those two years
Section 60(3), points 1 and 2, which also require the licence to be exchanged before it expires.
- Any other recognised licence
- One year from entry into the country, or from registration if registered
Section 61(2). No exchange route is provided except the diplomatic one in section 61(3).
- A licence obtained while already resident here
- Not valid in Finland at all
Section 60(4), which goes beyond refusing the right to drive and declares the licence itself without effect.
- Åland
- Sections 60 and 61 do not apply there
Section 60(6) and section 61(4). Section 61(2) says the one-year acceptance runs elsewhere than in Åland.
- Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
- Treated as convention licences
Section 60(2). The Faroes and Greenland are handled under section 61 instead, by section 61(5).
Requirements
- For an EU or EEA licence: a valid licence of the category concerned and the Finnish age requirement
- For a convention licence: residence outside Finland when it was issued, the convention model or a Finnish or Swedish translation, photo identification, age and medical fitness, and validity in the issuing state
- For any other recognised licence: the same conditions, in categories A1, A2, A or B only
In detail
Three clocks in three countries
Denmark's record has non-EU licences dying after 180 days, with a named list of countries that exchange without a test living in a regulation that was repealed in 2016. Sweden's has a third-country licence dying after a year on the register. Finland splits the third-country world in two: a convention state gets two years and an exchange without a test for category B and motorcycle, everyone else gets one year and no exchange at all. Finland is therefore the most generous of the three to a driver from a convention state and the only one of the three whose answer depends on a treaty rather than on a list an agency keeps.
A domestic border inside the country
Section 60(6) says what the section provides about the validity and acceptance of a convention licence does not concern Åland, and section 61(4) says the same for every other foreign licence; section 61(2) writes the exclusion into the operative sentence. This is the same structural fact as Denmark's Faroes and Greenland, arrived at from the other direction - not a part of the realm outside the Act, but an autonomous province the Act declines to reach on this subject.
Country-level policy
Finland does not ask what permit you hold when it decides what you are entitled to. It asks whether you have a kotikunta - a municipality of residence determined under the Municipality of Residence Act (201/1994) - and that question has its own statute, its own criteria and its own answer. The health duty runs through it: a wellbeing services county owes care to its residents, and a resident is someone whose kotikunta lies in its area. The driving licence clocks in sections 60 and 61 of the Driving Licences Act run from the entry in the population register that a kotikunta produces. Residence-based social security under Act 16/2019 points at section 4 of the same Act for anyone arriving from outside the EU. Section 4 opens the gate to a Finnish citizen, to a holder of a continuous or permanent permit, to a registered Union, EEA or Swiss citizen, to a family member of someone who already has one - and to a holder of a temporary permit of at least a year who also intends to settle, which is where the evidence list in section 4(2) does its work. One year abroad closes it again under section 5(1), unless the ties here remain closer.
Åland is a province of Finland, inside the European Union and inside the Schengen area, and several of the statutes on these pages stop at its shore. The Health Care Act says in its own scope section that it does not apply in the province, except for a training compensation. Sections 60 and 61 of the Driving Licences Act both exclude Åland from what they say about accepting a foreign licence. And the Self-Government Act adds a status that exists nowhere else in Finland: kotiseutuoikeot, the right of domicile, granted to a Finnish citizen who has moved to the province, has had their actual dwelling and home there without interruption for at least five years, and has a satisfactory command of Swedish. Without it, the restrictions in the Åland Land Acquisition Act (3/75) on acquiring real property in the province apply to you, and provincial law may restrict your right to carry on a trade there - with a carve-out for a business run with no helper other than a spouse or one's own minor children and with no business premises.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Muussa EU- tai ETA-valtiossa kuin Suomessa annettu ajokortti oikeuttaa kuljettamaan sellaista moottorikäyttöistä ajoneuvoa tai ajoneuvoyhdistelmää, jonka luokkaa vastaava yhdenmukaistettu luokkatunnus sisältyy ajokorttiin ja jonka 5 §:n mukaisen ikävaatimuksen ajokortin haltija täyttää. Ajo-oikeuden laajuudesta on voimassa, mitä 7 §:ssä säädetään, jollei ajokorttien vastavuoroisesta tunnustamisesta muuta johdu, ja kuljettajan ajoterveydentilan valvonnasta, mitä 20 ja 21 §:ssä säädetään.»Our translation - not official
A driving licence issued in an EU or EEA state other than Finland entitles the holder to drive a power-driven vehicle or combination of vehicles whose harmonised category code corresponding to its category is included in the driving licence and whose age requirement under section 5 the holder meets. As to the extent of the driving entitlement, what is provided in section 7 applies, unless otherwise follows from the mutual recognition of driving licences, and as to supervision of the driver's fitness to drive, what is provided in sections 20 and 21.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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«Genevessä vuonna 1949 tehtyyn tieliikennettä koskevaan yleissopimukseen (SopS 11/1959) tai Wienissä vuonna 1968 tehtyyn tieliikennettä koskevaan yleissopimukseen (SopS 30/1986) liittyneessä muussa kuin 59 §:ssä tarkoitetussa valtiossa annettu ajokortti oikeuttaa kuljettamaan Suomessa sellaista ajoneuvoa tai ajoneuvoyhdistelmää, jonka sopimuksessa mainittua luokkaa vastaava tunnus on ajokortissa, jos: 1) ajokortin haltijan vakinainen asuinpaikka ei ajokorttia myönnettäessä ollut Suomessa; 2) ajokortti on sopimuksessa olevan mallin mukainen kansallinen ajokortti tai siitä käyvät latinalaisin kirjaimin ilmi vastaavat tiedot kuin sopimusmallin mukaisesta ajokortista taikka ajokortin lisäksi esitetään sopimuksenmukainen kansainvälinen ajokortti tai ajokortin virallinen suomen- tai ruotsinkielinen käännös; 3) ajokortin mukana on kuvallinen henkilöllisyysasiakirja, jos ajokortissa ei ole haltijan valokuvaa; 4) ajokortin haltija täyttää luokkakohtaiset ikävaatimukset ja terveysvaatimukset; ja 5) ajokortti on voimassa sen myöntäneessä valtiossa tai alueella.»Our translation - not official
A driving licence issued in a state other than one referred to in section 59 that is party to the Convention on Road Traffic done at Geneva in 1949 (Treaty Series 11/1959) or the Convention on Road Traffic done at Vienna in 1968 (Treaty Series 30/1986) entitles the holder to drive in Finland a vehicle or combination of vehicles whose code corresponding to the category mentioned in the convention appears on the licence, if: 1) the holder's normal place of residence was not in Finland when the licence was granted; 2) the licence is a national licence in the form of the model in the convention, or the corresponding particulars appear on it in Latin characters as on a licence in the convention model, or an international driving permit in accordance with the convention or an official Finnish or Swedish translation of the licence is presented in addition to the licence; 3) photographic identification accompanies the licence if the licence does not bear the holder's photograph; 4) the holder meets the category-specific age and medical requirements; and 5) the licence is valid in the state or territory that granted it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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«Ajokortti hyväksytään ajamiseen Suomessa kaksi vuotta ajokortin haltijan väestörekisteriin merkitsemisestä edellyttäen, että se on voimassa eikä muuta syytä ajokortin kelpoisuuden lakkaamiseen aikaisemmin ole. Kuljettajan ajoterveydentilan valvontaan sovelletaan, mitä 20 ja 21 §:ssä säädetään.»Our translation - not official
The licence is accepted for driving in Finland for two years from the entry of the licence holder in the population register, provided that it is valid and there is no other reason for the licence's validity to lapse earlier. As to supervision of the driver's fitness to drive, what is provided in sections 20 and 21 applies.
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Finland's state legal information service, run by the Ministry of Justice. It publishes the Suomen säädöskokoelma - the statute series, where an Act takes effect on publication - and, separately, the ajantasainen consolidated text of each Act with later amendments worked into it. Every statute carries an ELI identifier that states the date of the consolidated version, so the cut-off is on the page rather than inferred: the Aliens Act 301/2004 was read at http://data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2004/301/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin. The site is bilingual by law and serves Finnish and Swedish texts of the same statute at the same address; Finnish is the language quoted here. It also carries unofficial English translations under /lainsaadanto/saadoskaannokset/.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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«Jos tässä pykälässä tarkoitetun ajokortin haltijan vakinainen asuinpaikka on ajokorttia myönnettäessä ollut Suomessa, ajokortti ei sen lisäksi, ettei se 1 momentin 1 kohdassa säädetyn nojalla oikeuta kuljettamaan moottorikäyttöistä ajoneuvoa Suomessa, ole Suomessa muutenkaan voimassa.»Our translation - not official
If the holder of a licence referred to in this section had his or her normal place of residence in Finland when the licence was granted, the licence is, in addition to not entitling him or her to drive a power-driven vehicle in Finland under subsection 1, point 1, not otherwise valid in Finland either.
The trap: a licence taken abroad while living here is void, not merely unusable.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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«Muu kuin 59 tai 60 §:ssä tarkoitettu Suomen tunnustamassa valtiossa myönnetty A1-, A2-, A- tai B-luokkaa vastaava kansallinen ajokortti hyväksytään ajamiseen Suomessa, jos: 1) ajokortin haltijan vakinainen asuinpaikka ei ajokorttia myönnettäessä ollut Suomessa; 2) kansallisen ajokortin malli ja ajokortin sisältämä ajo-oikeus vastaa 59 tai 60 §:ssä tarkoitettua ajokorttia tai, kansallisen ajokortin tiedot on merkitty latinalaisin kirjaimin ja ajokortista käy ilmi sen sisältämä oikeus eri ajoneuvojen kuljettamiseen taikka kansallisen ajokortin lisäksi esitetään auktorisoidun kääntäjän tai muun luotettavan tahon käännös ajokortista ja sen sisältämästä ajo-oikeudesta suomen, ruotsin, norjan, tanskan, englannin, saksan tai ranskan kielellä; 3) ajokortin mukana on kuvallinen henkilöllisyysasiakirja, jos ajokortissa ei ole haltijan valokuvaa; 4) ajokortin haltija täyttää ajokortin luokkaa vastaavat ikävaatimukset ja terveysvaatimukset; 5) ajokortti on voimassa sen myöntäneessä valtiossa.»Our translation - not official
A national driving licence corresponding to category A1, A2, A or B granted in a state recognised by Finland, other than one referred to in section 59 or 60, is accepted for driving in Finland if: 1) the holder's normal place of residence was not in Finland when the licence was granted; 2) the model of the national licence and the driving entitlement it contains correspond to a licence referred to in section 59 or 60, or the particulars of the national licence are entered in Latin characters and the licence shows the entitlement it contains to drive different vehicles, or a translation of the licence and of the driving entitlement it contains, made by an authorised translator or another reliable party, in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, German or French is presented in addition to the national licence; 3) photographic identification accompanies the licence if the licence does not bear the holder's photograph; 4) the holder meets the age and medical requirements corresponding to the category of the licence; 5) the licence is valid in the state that granted it.
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Finland's state legal information service, run by the Ministry of Justice. It publishes the Suomen säädöskokoelma - the statute series, where an Act takes effect on publication - and, separately, the ajantasainen consolidated text of each Act with later amendments worked into it. Every statute carries an ELI identifier that states the date of the consolidated version, so the cut-off is on the page rather than inferred: the Aliens Act 301/2004 was read at http://data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2004/301/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin. The site is bilingual by law and serves Finnish and Swedish texts of the same statute at the same address; Finnish is the language quoted here. It also carries unofficial English translations under /lainsaadanto/saadoskaannokset/.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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«Ajokortti hyväksytään ajamiseen Suomessa muualla kuin Ahvenanmaalla yhden vuoden ajan ajokortin haltijan maahantulosta taikka, jos hänet on merkitty väestörekisteriin, väestörekisteriin merkitsemisestä. Hyväksymisen edellytyksenä on, että ajokortti on voimassa eikä muuta syytä ajokortin kelpoisuuden lakkaamiseen aikaisemmin ole. Kuljettajan ajoterveydentilan valvontaan sovelletaan, mitä 20 ja 21 §:ssä säädetään.»Our translation - not official
The licence is accepted for driving in Finland elsewhere than in Åland for one year from the licence holder's entry into the country or, if he or she has been entered in the population register, from the entry in the population register. Acceptance requires that the licence is valid and that there is no other reason for the licence's validity to lapse earlier. As to supervision of the driver's fitness to drive, what is provided in sections 20 and 21 applies.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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Practical notes
What Åland's own law says about a foreign driving licence was not read. The record states only that the Finnish sections exclude it.
Which states Finland recognises for the purposes of section 61 is not stated in the Act and no list was read.
The medical requirements in sections 17 and 18, which sections 60 and 61 both make conditions, were not read.
Nothing published by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency was read.
- consolidatesAjokorttilaki, consolidated text of 22 May 2026
Finlex, oikeusministeriö · consolidated to 2026-05-22
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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- consolidatesAjokorttilaki, consolidated text of 22 May 2026
Finlex, oikeusministeriö · consolidated to 2026-05-22
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one - they are produced by ministries, carry their own amendment cut-offs separate from the Finnish text's, and several are years behind it. The consolidated text is the right thing to quote for what the law is now, but it prints provisions that are not yet in force alongside those that are, each marked with its own commencement date: the Nationality Act consolidation of 16 June 2026 carries the 2027 citizenship-exam wording of section 13 directly beneath the wording in force. A reader who takes the first paragraph they see has a one-in-two chance of reading next year's law. The consolidation also lags the statute series, and each statute's page lists the government bills pending on it; those bills are not law and must not be cited as if they were. The original statute as enacted is a different document at a different address under /lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/ and does not carry amendments.
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