Category: Visitor & Tourist Visas

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

UK Travel Update: UK Relaxes French Travel Restrictions

On 4 August, the British government announced that travellers from France to England will no longer need to be quarantined upon arrival provided they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The UK Department for Transport said it had taken the decision after a drop in the proportion of cases of the Beta variant of COVID-19 in…
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UK Travel Green List: Hope for UK Holidaymakers

UK holidaymakers have been given a boost after the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated he is increasingly confident more countries will soon be added to the UK’s green list of travel destinations. The British government previously announced that vaccinated travellers from the amber list do not need to quarantine. Despite the changes to amber…
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UK Planning to Allow for Vaccinated Travellers

British officials are considering plans to open up international travel for passengers who’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, allowing a resumption of tourism to more countries and territories including the US and some of the most popular European destinations. While the UK technically reopened for international travel in mid-May, it maintains a “traffic light” system,…
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UK Travel Update: Portugal Drops from Green List, 7 Countries to be Added to Red List

The British government revealed on 3 June its first changes to the travel “traffic light system” which has caused dismay for the travel and tourism industries and would-be holidaymakers. There were widespread hopes for fresh destinations to be added to England’s “green list” of countries where quarantine-free travel is permitted. However, no new countries have…
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Brexit: EU Nationals Detained and Refused Entry into the UK

In a further blow to post-Brexit relations between the UK and EU, it has been widely reported that EU citizens from Greece, Germany, Italy, Romania and Spain were detained and held in immigration removal centres after trying to enter the United Kingdom. As the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union, EU…
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