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Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel
Reason ^
| 7.29.2023
| Matt Welch
Posted on 07/29/2023 11:00:07 PM PDT by libh8er
… The grimly named European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is projected to cost 7 euros per application and take up to 14 days to render a decision.
Before you start shaking your fist at freedom-hating Eurocrats, know that ETIAS is the belated continental answer to a system the U.S. has imposed on residents of friendly countries since 2009, called the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA. Like ETIAS, ESTA is a response to 21st-century terrorist attacks and combines modest fees ($21) with less-than-instantaneous turnaround times (a promised 72 hours). Both either tweak or torpedo (depending on your point of view) the notion of reciprocal "visa waiver" travel between high-trust countries.
U.S. passports have long been given the red carpet treatment worldwide, due to the country's economic heft and traditional leadership role in negotiating down international barriers to the movement of people (and goods). That latter ethic began to deteriorate after the Cold War, with the rise of bipartisan anti-illegal immigration politics in the early 1990s, and then in earnest after Saudi nationals pulverized the World Trade Center with highjacked planes on September 11, 2001.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; travel; visa
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posted on
07/29/2023 11:00:07 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
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posted on
07/29/2023 11:03:58 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: libh8er
Wait 14 days to find out IF you are going to be admitted ??? And then pay a fee !?! This is not about security. This is humiliation. Trump said he would have ended it very quickly.
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posted on
07/29/2023 11:04:47 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
In 2019 New Zealand started requiring this ...
To visit there, I had to get one of these online but it was good for 2 years...
I could visit as many times as I wanted to during that time
It took less than 10 minutes to get the answer ...
The instructions were to print the page and bring it with me ...
Hopefully the UE one will be as easy if they start it ...
No I dont like it at all ....
To: Tennessee Nana
I went to New Zealand in Nov of 2017. It was so easy. Just showed my passport and walked through. No questions asked.
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posted on
07/29/2023 11:28:48 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: Tennessee Nana
They need it to be easy to get it established worldwide. Then it becomes hard, very hard.
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posted on
07/30/2023 12:18:24 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
To: libh8er
technically speaking, countries have always had the right to limit travel. A country can deny a passport to their subjects and countries can deny you upon arrival. That has been the case for hundreds of years.
But now they are moving into the realm of full control of your movement.
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posted on
07/30/2023 12:26:34 AM PDT
by
Jaysin
(Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
To: libh8er
What is the status of the Schengen Agreement? Or are we the only ones affected?
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posted on
07/30/2023 1:10:01 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
To: libh8er
50 waiver-free countries, including Australia, now have to get an ESTA approval to travel into or through the US. it’s much lengthier than a previous form.
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posted on
07/30/2023 1:11:11 AM PDT
by
MAGAthon
To: MAGAthon
Just go to the southern border and you can walk right in easy peasy!!!
To: libh8er
Americans didn’t even need a passport at all until the 1950s
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posted on
07/30/2023 3:13:25 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: libh8er
Controlling your ability to freely travel is part of the comminist’s plan.
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posted on
07/30/2023 3:48:06 AM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: libh8er
LOL! Meanwhile we let millions of illegal invaders in with zero restrictions
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posted on
07/30/2023 4:59:18 AM PDT
by
trebb
(So many fools - so little time...)
To: libh8er
He didn’t end ours during his four years. Why?
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posted on
07/30/2023 5:25:54 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
To: Jonty30
[They need it to be easy to get it established worldwide. Then it becomes hard, very hard.]
I know I keep hammering this. But unapologetically. What the world saw with Covid-19
(84) is only the beginning (with apologies to the band Chicago). It's not going to happen tomorrow; but with Digital Currency, travel restrictions, etc. they will make it so NO man can Buy or Sell without submitting to the Global System.
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posted on
07/30/2023 6:11:22 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: libh8er
They can kiss American tourism goodbye.
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