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Visiting Europe will soon get (slightly) more complicated and expensive for most U.S. travelers as new visa requirements take effect. ... When the ETIAS requirement begins in mid-2025, the E.U ...
Starting in the first quarter of 2025, the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) requires travelers from the list of over 60 visa-exempt countries who want to travel to any ...
ETIAS is required for entry by land, air and sea to 30 European countries, including the 29 member states of the Schengen Area, as well as Cyprus. Ireland, which is part of the Common Travel Area, is the only member state of the European Union that continues to have its own visa policy and does not plan to join the Schengen Area or to require ETIAS.
The ETIAS travel authorization is a mandatory entry requirement for visa-exempt travelers visiting any of the 30 European countries. Planning a trip to Europe? New ETIAS rules affect travelers in 2025
The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is a planned electronic authorisation system for visa-exempt visitors to travel to the Schengen Area and to other EU member states, [179] except Ireland, which remains in the Common Travel Area with the United Kingdom and other British Islands.
Visa requirements for United States citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states that are imposed on citizens of the United States. As of 2025, holders of a United States passport may travel to 183 countries and territories without a travel visa , or with a visa on arrival .
After several years of delays, ETIAS was expected to go online in 2024, but it has now been pushed back to mid-2025 because its entry/exit database isn’t ready.
Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2017 establishing an Entry/Exit System (EES) to register entry and exit data and refusal of entry data of third-country nationals crossing the external borders of the Member States and determining the conditions for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes, and amending the Convention implementing the ...