US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
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Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#2This is in response to security concerns for some EU countries, so it's really just a political tit for tat.
"The United States has been in a dispute with the EU's European Parliament and European Commission over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus. Travelers in those five countries are the only EU nations that the US requires to apply for a visa."
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#3This is in response to security concerns for some EU countries, so it's really just a political tit for tat. "The United States has been in a dispute with the EU's European Parliament and European Commission over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus. Travelers in those five countries are the only EU nations that the US requires to apply for a visa."
The EU is acting as a single political body, that's good. The US requires a visa for visiting from the EU, thus the EU requires the same to USA visitors.
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#4This is for an electronic travel authorization, which the US, Australia and Canada already require of all visitors. It's simple and takes minutes online, hardly a 'visa.'
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#5No, no visa will be needed.
The EU is introducing a system equivalent to the US's ESTA. (Most) EU citizens may travel visa-free to the US but must register (and pay) on ESTA.
It will be the same for US citizens to travel to the EU.
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#6This is in response to security concerns for some EU countries, so it's really just a political tit for tat. "The United States has been in a dispute with the EU's European Parliament and European Commission over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus. Travelers in those five countries are the only EU nations that the US requires to apply for a visa."
But you don’t need a visa for travelling to all these five countries (for up to 90 days of stay). All of them (without Poland) are not in Schengen area for now, so maybe that’s the reason of this.
https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2040 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#7This is in response to security concerns for some EU countries, so it's really just a political tit for tat. "The United States has been in a dispute with the EU's European Parliament and European Commission over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus. Travelers in those five countries are the only EU nations that the US requires to apply for a visa."
But you don’t need a visa for travelling to all these five countries (for up to 90 days of stay). All of them (without Poland) are not in Schengen area for now, so maybe that’s the reason of this. https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2040 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra... https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
Wrong way around... The US isn't allowing citizens of those countries in without a visa, and the EU principles generally say that visa(-free) reciprocity has to apply to all members (which in the case of the US has been ignored for years by the commission). That said, this new stuff seems to be pre-clearance for "visa-free" travel, so not really a change to this.
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#8This is in response to security concerns for some EU countries, so it's really just a political tit for tat. "The United States has been in a dispute with the EU's European Parliament and European Commission over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus. Travelers in those five countries are the only EU nations that the US requires to apply for a visa."
The EU is acting as a single political body, that's good. The US requires a visa for visiting from the EU, thus the EU requires the same to USA visitors.
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Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#9This is for an electronic travel authorization, which the US, Australia and Canada already require of all visitors. It's simple and takes minutes online, hardly a 'visa.'
Yes, the ESTA and now the US citizens have to do something similar to enter the EU. I hope they also need to pay for it when they just have a stopover in the EU just like us in the US. I am fully on board with this as a EU citizen
Re: US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
#10The article mixes two seaparate issues:
- EU is introducing ETIAS, an electronic authorisation system which is pretty much modeled after the US ESTA system (used by visa-free nationals). It will apply to all countries which currently enjoy the visa-free regime with the EU and that includes USA. So, technically it is not a visa, but your details will be pre-checked and it will cost €7 (compared to $14 for US ESTA). Ironically, after Brexit, this requirement will also apply to UK.
- There is a separate dispute between EU and US, because US imposes visas on five EU states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus). According the EU law, all EU countries should be treated equally or otherwise reciprocal measures should apply. There have been calls within the EU to respond tit for tat and impose EU visas on US citizens, if the issue does not get resolved soon.
As an EU citizen, I can just add that I support both initiatives.