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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Sat Mar 9, 2019, 10:38 AM Mar 2019

United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021

Source: CNN

United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021

Lauren M. Johnson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN • Updated 9th March 2019

(CNN) — US citizens traveling to Europe without a visa will be a thing of the past come 2021.

The European Union announced on Friday that American travelers will need a new type of visa -- a European Travel Information and Authorization System or ETIAS -- to visit the European Schengen Area.

The Schengen Area is a zone of 26 European countries that do not have internal borders and allow people to move between them freely, including countries like Spain, France, Greece, Germany, Italy and Poland.

Currently, US citizens can travel to Europe for up to 90 days without a visa.

To apply for the ETIAS, US citizens will need a valid passport, an email account and a credit or debit card, the EU said. Minors, the website said, will still only need their normal passports to travel after the visas go into effect.

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United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021 (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2019 OP
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 #1
We've been doing it to them with the ESTA program for years now. DFW Mar 2019 #2

DFW

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2. We've been doing it to them with the ESTA program for years now.
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 03:18 AM
Mar 2019

I guess it was only a matter of time before they started doing it to us. It does give the EU a method for denying entry to neo-Nazi-style rightists (Trump's current ambassador to Germany might not be allowed back in after 2021).

My wife still needs an ESTA clearance, even though she is married to an American citizen. I have an unrestricted German residence permit, so I assume I'll be exempted, but I will make sure of this just in case. I completely trust European bureaucracy to overlook Americans with permanent residence permits for a Schengen country.

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