Category: UK Visa News

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

UK Red List Expanded: UK Travel Changes Due to Omicron

England has added 10 southern African countries to their red list and will reintroduce PCR tests and self-isolate until they have got a negative result. The return of the red list comes after the Omicron variant was detected in South Africa and Botswana. Travellers arriving from South Africa and nine other southern African nations will…
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UK Updated Red List: UK Bans African Countries

The UK moved to impose travel restrictions on a group of African nations as a surge in cases of a heavily mutated coronavirus variant caused alarm among global health officials. These countries will be added to England’s travel “red list”. Travellers returning from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Eswatini will be forced to…
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UK Booster Shot Required for Overseas Travel in 2022

After reports that a booster shot is needed for UK nationals to travel, it has been confirmed that booster jabs will not be required for travellers until 2022. According to a UAE paper The National, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told reporters at Dubai’s Expo 2020 event that he did not “see any prospect”…
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UK & US Airlines Partner for Free COVID Test

As the United States opened to vaccinated European travellers after an 18-month long travel ban, data shows that British nationals wasted no time making plans for their trip to the US. Travellers from the United Kingdom (UK) face added costs for coronavirus testing before departure to the US, on the second day upon return to…
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New US Travel Rules: How Unvaccinated Travellers Can Go to the USA

As of this week, the United States lifted the travel restrictions that barred non-US citizens from Brazil, China, India, Iran, Ireland, the Schengen Area, South Africa, and the United Kingdom from entering the country. With the reopening of US border restrictions, the United States is also imposing new rules requiring nearly all foreign adult visitors…
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