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Citizens and passport holders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia will require travel authorisation to enter European Union member states, as well as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, starting from late 2023. Known as ETIAS, citizens from all countries that enjoy visa-free travel with the EU will be obligated to register online once every three years prior to travelling and pay a small fee. It will impact 1.4 billion people from over sixty visa-exempt countries, including the likes of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. It is important to note that ETIAS is not a visa. ETIAS is linked to a traveller’s passport. It is valid for up to three years or until the passport expires, whichever comes first. If you get a new passport, you need to get a new ETIAS travel authorisation. It involves filling up a form online and paying a seven euro fee after which authorisation should be issued within minutes. ETIAS is expected to be implemented from November after years of delays. An exact date is yet to be announced.
The US has the same thing for visa-free countries. Just a way to fill the budget.
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DeleteSo do Australia, Canada, New Zealand and many other countries. Soon you won’t be able to go anywhere without paying a fee.
DeleteI think the primary reason for the ETIAS is security reasons. Those who were convicted of crime in the past (in some cases even things like driving while intoxicated) might not be able to enter EU. I know some people from ex YU in the US who got DWI and were refused entry to Canada.
DeleteThat is the primary excuse, the primary reason is to collect more money. If security or any other real reason exist it should be free.
DeleteLol, they allow illegal immigrants who commited who knows what crimes, but they have a problem with someone who was charged with DUI.
DeleteUS visa waver
DeleteSoon you won't be allowed to go anywhere...
DeleteThen after a bit more brain washing you will not want to go anywhere ...
Greta is watching you...
And how is this happening now, for example, for the citizens of Bosnia? Just entry without a visa and without an ESTA?
ReplyDeleteYes, everyone with visa free travel can just enter the EU. From November everyone will have to pay 7 euro and register online.
Delete7 euro is okay. In Cape-Verde everybody regardless citizenship pays 35 euro EACH TIME
ReplyDeleteWhy go to Cape-Verde?
DeleteFor holiday.
DeleteIt's amazing there. Weather is just perfect the whole year.
DeleteWhy go to Cape Verde? *facepalm*
DeleteAnon 11:48 do a bit of a google research, it is paradise
DeleteI wanna go to Cape Verde
DeleteIt is important to mention that this procedure does not apply to non EU citizens which have permission to live and work in EU.
ReplyDeleteObviously since they have residency permit.
DeleteAlbanians don't need to do this to travel to EU?
ReplyDeleteYes they will. It says in the article.
DeleteIt doesn't, only 4 exyu countries are mentioned.
DeleteYes it applies to Labanians too and @15.38 Albania is not an ex-Yu country. For goodness sake read the article. It's not rocket science
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DeleteAlbanians are not EX-YU. They are neither part of the EU. Therefore, they will need to pay the fee.
DeleteIt is very prestigious to be treated leike the citizens from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia!
ReplyDeleteOuch!
ReplyDeleteThere’s plenty of great places to visit outside the EU
ReplyDeleteIf you think 7€ is a good enough reason not to go to the EU, it's probably best if you don't.
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It’s actually for 3 years so it’s more like 2,30€ per year, right?
DeleteMore like 2,33€
DeleteMore like 2,33€
DeleteEU=banda
ReplyDeleteThe problem I see with all these fees and indirect taxes is that the governments collect ever more money, yet the services never seem to improve. If I look at Slovenia, where I live, this year’s budget is going to be a record budget, yet I simply cannot see any part of living or services improving for a regular person!
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DeleteBoycott them, problem solved!
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DeleteI am 100 percent with u. A fee here, a fee there and it's cumulating. The time where EU governments were looking for their own population is over. Most they do is transferring assets fm the bottom 99.5% to the top 0.5%
Thats why I try to avoid shopping with elite controlled multi nationals where- and whenever I can. Back to the roots where ever possible 😜
Pure greed. I'm sure it all started in the US.
ReplyDeleteUS citizens will also have to apply for ETIAS and pay the fee.
DeleteIt's a money grab. Anywhere you go they scan passports and they already know everything about you.
ReplyDeleteWhat if someone is already EU citizen but lives outside of the EU?
ReplyDeleteIt does not apply to EU citizens regardless where they live.
DeleteIf this was to speed up the passport controls, i would gladly pay it but seeing how its only a money grab i cannot support it. Just last week i landed in Vienna, and the passport control was a mess. Out of 8 avaliable kiosks there were two working. Waited of an hour and fifteen mins. They are starting to look like Beg airport from ten years ago. Make automated kiosks avaliable for non EU people too. Since we need to pre register now, i am sure they will have more control over who enters.
ReplyDeletevice versa as well i hope
ReplyDeleteI dont think this is about the money at all. The fee is a symbolic one, and if it were any lower, one could say that it is almost free. This is about the intelligence integration. It is unexceptable for the EU in 2023 to be waiving in any random foreign persons, only based on a (passport) foreign issued piece of paper, that EU has no control over, and therefore has no additional details about that person, let alone any more advanced info (in the age when western governments hold shocking amount of details about its citizens, including meta-data in many cases). This is about intelligence and EU getting uptodate with the current standards of control and security if you will, not about any monetary reasons. Without this, a force such as EU hands over trust to foreign bodies the are outside of its control and system, for automatic and free movement on EU’s territory. I think however, that this ends the visa-free regime, that is in fact the freedom of movement between countries, that will no longer fully exist with this in place.
ReplyDeleteI also find it funny I read this news after watching the “Snowden” movie on RTS1.
It is all about money. This was announced just days after Brexit referendum happaned and the idea is to fill part of the financial hole left by UK leaving. It is symbolic fee but involves hundreds of millions of people so it will be a massive cash injection.
DeleteOk, so if it is all about money, then every passport holder from exYU will just be charged the fee (online or at border crossing at time of arrival) and nobody will need to provide additional info, other then the passport info, and nobody will get denied entry into the EU compared to before this getting implemented. I still think that in the view of EU, it is unacceptable to allow entry to anyone and everyone from territories beyond their control, without knowing anything at all about them, other then what was printed on a piece of paper (passport) by their own administration.
DeleteYou know that’s how borders work righow now? Anyone not from the EU can get rejected at an EU border. EUR 7 will not change that.
Deleteif only 10% out of these 1.4bn people visit Europe, that equals to 1 billion €uros
ReplyDeleteWow...1 billion euro!! What a money grab for a 15 trillion euro economy. At a state level a billion euro is perhaps a lot of money in Montenegro.
DeleteHowever if you are a illegal immigrant from a third world country you do not need to bother with this ....
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