Category: Travel

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

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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Italy Travel Restriction: England’s Fans Struggle to Go to Rome

Football fans are elated that England has secured the Euro 2020 quarter-final against Ukraine after ending their game against Germany yesterday with a 2-0 win. So far in the tournament, England supporters have been able to watch their team at Wembley, however, for the quarter-final, the team must move on to Rome and as things…
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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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Norway Unveils Plans to Reopen Travel

Norway has relaxed its notoriously tight COVID-19 border rules to allow more people from the EU/EEA and the UK to enter the country. Since January of this year, Norway has barred entry for almost anybody who isn’t a Norwegian citizen or resident of Norway and very few other exemptions in an attempt to limit the spread…
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