U.S. Citizens Travelling To Europe Without A Visa Will Be A Thing Of The Past Come 2021
The Schengen Area is an zone of 26 European countries with no internal borders, allowing people to move freely between them, including countries such as Spain, France, Greece, Germany, Italy and Poland.
U.S. citizens can currently travel to Europe without a visa for up to 90 days.
To apply for the ETIAS, U.S. citizens will need a valid passport, an email account and a credit or debit card, the EU said.
The Union said that the ETIAS visa is valid for three years and allows Americans to enter the Schengen Area as many times as necessary.
The European Union said on the ETIAS website that it "recently decided to improve their level of security in order to avoid further problems with illegal migration and terrorism."
The United States has been in a dispute over visas for Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus with the European Parliament and the European Commission. The only EU nations that the U.S. requires to apply for a visa are travelers in those five countries.
The European Commission first published a report in 2016 calling on the United States to grant these five countries the same visa - free status as the other 23 EU nations in exchange for U.S. citizens maintaining the same visa - free status in the Schengen area. For all Member States, EU rules require equal treatment.
However, the report also indicated that the commission wanted to wait for "push for full reciprocity of visas" until after President Trump was in office.
Parliament voted in favour of imposing visas on U.S. citizens in June 2018 by the Commission.
CNN
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