Category: Portugal

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Germany Set to Ease Travel Restrictions for UK and Others

The German government will soften coronavirus travel rules for travellers from Britain along with four other countries.  Travellers from the UK to Germany will face softer quarantine restrictions, after altered recommendations from the German public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute published on 5 July.  The restrictions for the UK, along with Portugal, Russia, India…
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EU Adds More Third Countries to the Safe List

More third-country citizens will benefit from restriction-free entry to the European Union and Schengen Area Member States. The EU is adding 11 countries, including Canada, to the bloc’s approved travel list allowing restriction free entry for non-essential purposes. The decision was taken on 30 June, during a regular meeting of the EU ambassadors, who review…
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EU Members Place Restrictions on British Travellers

Just as the British government announced that several more destinations are added on the quarantine-free green list starting 30 June, British travellers themselves have been handed a number of new restrictions by various EU member states.  Calls for British travellers to be placed into quarantine echo around the bloc as the rising case numbers of…
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EU Calls On the United States to Ease Travel Restrictions

Despite the EU relaxing its rules to allow US travellers into the bloc, the US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cut off the hopes of millions that the US could reciprocate the EU’s move to reopen the borders. We are anxious to be able to restore travel as fully and quickly as possible. I…
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Poland Opens Borders to US and More

Due to the pandemic, the Polish government has implemented obligatory restrictions on Poland’s border. These restrictions limit foreign nationals’ entry and dictate quarantine restrictions upon crossing the border. The travellers from EU Member States or Schengen Associated Countries are allowed entry without restrictions if they provide proof of vaccination authorised by the EU or they…
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