The European Union is set to introduce a new entry system for travelers in 2025 designed to enhance the visitor experience and improve safety and security within the bloc.
However, the new regulations and are delivered with more steps and prices for travelers.
Here’s everything you need to know about these new requirements for European travel.
The EU’s new Entry/Exit System or EES is a new biometric system relying on fingerprints and digital photos for identification to improve the traveler experience while enhancing border security, combating identity fraud and helping authorities to identify overstayers.
The system, which will end the classic passport stamping, will apply to EU travellers visiting all 29 European countries for short remains explained as up to 90 days during a 180-day era.
Officials in Cyprus and Ireland will continue to stamp passports.
The EU Commissioner, Ylva Johasson, originally said that the EES would begin just before the holiday era collected on November 10, 2024. However, the deployment was behind the past fall and is now planned by mid -2025.
Traveler through Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo credit: Vasily Makarov / Adobe)
“When that happens, it will be goodbye to passport stamping, hello to digital checks for all passengers from outside the EU—making travel easier and border checks gradually faster,” said Johansson. “At every single airport, every single harbor and every single road into Europe, we will have digital border controls—all connected, all switched on at the very same time.”
After the launch of the EES, the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIA) will be implemented at the end of this year.
It will require roughly 1.4 billion travelers from more than 60 visa-exempt countries—including the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the UK—to link travel authorization to their passport to enter 30 European countries for short-term stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period.
The authorization is valid for three years or until the individual’s passport expires.
The document will cost €7 or roughly $8 for travelers between the ages of 18 and 70. Travelers can apply on the official ETIAS website or through the ETIAS mobile app.
The United Kingdom will request that US, Canadian, Australian and non -European citizens request electronic authorization (ETA) before January 8, 2025.
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A local and homeless Marylander who has lived in the United States from North Carolina to SoCal, Patrick Clarke graduated from Towson University with a B. S. in journalism. In the past he worked for Bleacher
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