US (American) citizens will need
a visa to visit Europe from 2021
American citizens traveling to
Europe without a visa will be the past since 2021.
The European Union announced on
Friday that an American traveler would need a new type of visa - Europe travel
information and authorization system or ETIAS - to visit the Europe Schengen
area.
The Schengen area is a zone of 26
European countries where there are no domestic boundaries, such as Spain,
France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Poland, and can move freely.
Today, US citizens can travel to
Europe for up to 90 days without a visa.
To apply for ETIAS, a valid
passport, e-mail account, credit card or debit card is required for US
citizens. According to the website, minors can travel only with a regular
passport even after the visa is effective.
The Union said that the ETIAS
visa is valid for three years and permits Americans to enter the Schengen area
as many times as necessary.
On the ETIAS website, the
European Union said, "We recently decided to improve security levels to
avoid further problems related to illegal immigration and terrorism." and now
The United States is in conflict
with the EU European Parliament and the European Commission on visas for
Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania, and Cyprus. Travelers in these five
countries are the only EU countries for which the US is obliged to apply for
visas.
In 2016, the European Commission
grants these five countries the same visa-free status as the other 23 EU
countries in exchange for US citizens maintaining the same visa-free status in
the Schengen area for the first time. The EU rules require equal treatment for
all Member States.
However, the report also indicated
that the committee hoped to wait until "President Trump" took office
"to promote full visa reciprocity".
In June 2018, Congress voted for
the committee to support visas for US citizens and it is now going to happen that
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