Category: Germany

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Brazil & South Africa Removed From Germany’s List of High-Risk Countries

Residents of Brazil and South Africa have faced some of the harshest travel restrictions since the beginning of 2021 and have finally been removed from Germany’s list of high-risk areas as of 19 September. Other countries that were also removed from the high-risk list, alongside the two nations are: Bangladesh Botswana Cyprus Eswatini India Ireland’s…
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EU Blue Card Reformed, Conditions Made Easier

The EU’s Blue Card giving eligible foreign professionals the right to live and work in the EU is being made more attractive under the new modifications.  The European Parliament has announced on 15 September, that the MEPs have adopted the reform on the EU Blue Card to make it easier to employ highly-skilled non-EU nationals…
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Post-Brexit: EU Passport Required When Travelling to the UK

EU nationals as well as Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will no longer be able to use their country’s national identity cards as a means of entry into the UK from the end of September. Previously, travellers who had citizenship in EU countries could use their national ID cards to enter the UK. However, from…
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US Travellers to be Banned from Europe Travel

The European Union on 27 August moved to reinstate COVID travel restrictions such as quarantine and testing requirements for unvaccinated citizens of the United States as the United States is set to be removed from the “safe travel” list. It has been reported that EU countries had started a procedure to remove the United States…
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Singapore Opens Travel Bubble with Germany

Singapore will be launching quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated passengers from Germany and Brunei Darussalam in September as it further moves to reopen its borders. With nearly 80% of its population now fully vaccinated, the Singaporean government has room to reopen its borders. Under the vaccinated travel lanes, passengers who are fully vaccinated and arriving…
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