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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LGB....
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.
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 ....
I went to New Zealand in Nov of 2017. It was so easy. Just showed my passport and walked through. No questions asked.
They need it to be easy to get it established worldwide. Then it becomes hard, very hard.
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.
What is the status of the Schengen Agreement? Or are we the only ones affected?
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.
Just go to the southern border and you can walk right in easy peasy!!!
Americans didn’t even need a passport at all until the 1950s
Controlling your ability to freely travel is part of the comminist’s plan.
LOL! Meanwhile we let millions of illegal invaders in with zero restrictions
He didn’t end ours during his four years. Why?
They can kiss American tourism goodbye.
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